Accessibility

We are committed to serving everyone in the Dartmouth community.

Visitors with disabilities can ask for help in person at any service desk or by phone, email, or chat. Call specific libraries for advice on access and to make an appointment for reference assistance. Special accommodation requests not addressed below may be directed to David Sturges, Head of Access and Delivery Services, at 603-646-9294.

If you cannot access content or use features on the Dartmouth Library website due to a disability or other accessibility-related issue, please contact us.

Service Animals in the Dartmouth Library

Service animals and service animal trainees are allowed in the Dartmouth College Library buildings. No other animals are admitted.

The library may exclude a service animal from the facility if that animal's behavior poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others, or when its behavior creates a disruption to activities going on around it.

Definition of a service animal: "Service animals are animals that are individually trained to perform tasks for people with disabilities-such as guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling wheelchairs, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, or performing other special tasks. Service animals are working animals, not pets." If they meet this definition, animals are considered service animals under the ADA regardless of whether they have been licensed or certified by a state or local government. See: ADA Business Brief: Service Animals, April 2010.

Locating or Reaching Library Materials

Library staff members will assist with locating or reaching shelved Library materials. Provide the location information of your items to any circulation desk and a staff person will retrieve the items for you. You can also press the "REQUEST" button in our catalog, and the item will be retrieved from the stacks or shelves and delivered to the main circulation desk of your preferred library.

Borrowing Library Materials

Using a Proxy

Patrons who need regular assistance may request to add a proxy borrower to their account. Please contact staff at the Baker-Berry Circulation Desk at 603-646-2567 or baker.circulation@dartmouth.edu.

Assisted Photocopying/Scanning

For those with long-term needs, please contact Student Accessibility Services. Circulation staff can assist as needed with immediate needs.

HathiTrust: Access to Digitized Material

As a partner of HathiTrust, we can provide eligible patrons with print disabilities special access to all digitized in-copyright material in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Eligible patrons are affiliates of Dartmouth College who have a print disability for which access to digital copies of library books is a reasonable and appropriate accommodation. A print disability is defined as any disability that prevents you from being able to read a print book, which includes vision impairment, cognitive impairments, learning disabilities, physical disability, or other impairment.

For more information or to submit a request, please contact us at hathitrustrequests@dartmouth.edu.

Accessibility at our libraries

Baker-Berry

Parking	Accessible parking on College Street and North Main Street.
Entrance/Elevator	Only the North Main Street entrance is not accessible. It does not have an elevator and requires climbing stairs.
Restrooms	Accessible restrooms on each floor of the Berry side of the library.

Dana

Parking	Maynard Street lot and the lower Dewey Field Road lot.
Entrance/Elevator	Enter through the main entrance from the Maynard St. lot (Mon-Fri: 7:30am-6pm), turn right at the sitting area and use the elevator just past the kitchen. Dana is on Level 3. Using the rear entrance, the elevator is to the right after exiting the vestibule.
Restrooms	Men's room is located opposite the elevator. The women's is to the left and around the corner to the right when exiting the elevator. Water fountain is located on the left as you exit the elevator.

Matthews-Fuller

Parking	The main entrance of DHMC.
Entrance/Elevator	Take the elevators behind the information desk to the 5th floor and the entrance is in front of you.
Restrooms	Restrooms located right outside, to the left and right. Water fountains located in the study room.

Rauner

Parking	Metered parking available on College Street.
Entrance/Elevator	Enter through the main foyer of Webster Hall, via an elevator that is accessible to the outside at street level, just to the left of the main stairs.
Restrooms	Accessible restrooms are located on the basement level of Webster Hall, which is reachable via elevator. Water fountains are located next to the lockers in the main foyer of Webster Hall.

Sherman

Parking	Accessible parking located near the entrances to Baker East (which provides elevator access to the main floor of Baker-Berry and Sherman) and Baker West.
Entrance/Elevator	The main entrance to Baker-Berry which connects to Sherman is handicap accessible. Baker East is also handicap accessible, and has an elevator that connects to the main floor of Sherman and Baker-Berry. Arrangements may also be made to enter via the Baker-Berry loading dock area which has an elevator. Elevator located at the Baker East entrance, and at the loading dock, which leads to the main floor of Baker-Berry, and connects to Sherman. There is not an accessible elevator in Sherman.
Restrooms	Accessible restrooms are available on the main floor of Baker-Berry Library down the hall from Sherman Library.