Borrowing Privileges (for You, Your Research Assistant, and Your Family)
You
To view what your may check out and for how long, please view the Services page. New and Visiting Faculty must visit Magill Library front desk in person to activate their library account.
Your Research Assistant
Faculty may request proxy borrowing privileges for their student research assistants. Proxy privileges allow a student to borrow materials in a faculty member's name with the faculty member's borrowing privileges. The faculty member will be responsible for all materials thus borrowed; the faculty member should ensure that the research assistant is using the privilege solely to obtain materials needed by the faculty member or required by the research assistant's assigned project.
Click here to apply for these privileges.
You will receive an email notifying you that the proxy card is ready for pickup at the library. If you do not receive notification within 48 hours, please email .
Your Family
Your partner and children may have courtesy borrowing privileges at Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore libraries. To apply, please visit the Magill Library front desk with appropriate ID.
Subject Librarian Support
Subject librarians are happy to assist you in any way possible, from creating resource guides for your course to visiting your class.
In support of the faculty, librarians teach students research skills and strategies, including the very critical work of finding and interrogating texts, in both print and digital formats. Librarians also facilitate rich, complex, dynamic, and dialectic engagement with these texts. At all academic levels, librarians foster information literacy, understanding, critical reflection, knowledge production, and scholarship with classes, while also providing intensive, one-on-one support of students throughout their college career and culminating in their senior capstone projects.
Librarians provide a scaffolding of instruction that takes students from the basics of library catalogs and database searching, through an informed use of both print and digital sources, to an insider view of their chosen discipline's literature. Students at each level are encouraged to develop the evaluative and critical skills that will lead them to more complex projects. Librarians help students learn to contextualize ideas, whether on the screen or in print, and to see themselves as active participants in a purposeful conversation.
Librarians work with faculty to provide instruction tailored to the needs of a particular class in terms of its subject matter. They prepare web pages of relevant resources, so that students can become familiar with the key tools they need for research (see the Tri-College list of guides for current courses). In their discussions with classes, librarians bring in examples of content and issues that relate to course readings and to individual student research topics. They also explain strategies for navigating library systems, scholarly literatures, and the hybrid world of digital and print resources.
The Library's instruction format is very flexible. It can be used in the classroom, in the library, or in a workshop outside of class hours. Students also work individually with librarians on approaches to and resources for a research question. Many students, particularly senior thesis writers, remain in contact with their librarians throughout their projects. Content for instruction can focus on a class research paper, on particular databases, on resources for a subject area, or whatever will be most useful to students.
To find out more, please contact your subject librarian:
Course Reserves
Electronic Reserves
To see what is on electronic reserves for a particular course, please log in to Moodle.
To add materials to electronic reserves, please contact Theresa Donahue (Magill Library), Dora Wong (White Science Library & Astronomy Library), Adam Crandell (Union Music Library), or your administrative assistant, as appropriate.
Physical Reserves
To see what is on physical reserves for a particular course, search by either professor last name or course number/name:
To add materials to physical reserves, please fill out the form below or visit any library front desk.
Streaming Media for Your Course
The Libraries will make streaming versions of media available in Moodle course sites. We will stream media in keeping with the TEACH Act, the College's Copyright policy, and available library resources. This means that:
- We will require a copy of the final course syllabus, on which the title of the work must appear.
- Works to be streamed must be owned by the Libraries. We will attempt to purchase copies of media for our collection when possible.
- We will not prepare for streaming third-party copies, recordings or transfers, including rentals or personal recordings of broadcasted material.
Audio
In order to request streaming audio for a course, please send a list of required recordings and your course syllabus at least 2 weeks before the semester (or date needed for streaming) to Adam Crandell. Once the streaming audio is ready, it will be linked in your Moodle course.
Video
In order to request streaming video for a course, please fill out this form for each film and send your course syllabus to Laurie Allen. Once the streaming video is ready, it will be linked in your Moodle course.
Because many films are only available for temporary streaming rights at a cost of $125 per course, we ask that you indicate whether you would like the Libraries to purchase the streaming rights at that price. For those films not available for lease, we will attempt to obtain permission from the rights holder of the work.
Once you have submitted your request, you will recieve an email with further details on how the streaming video process works. If you would like to schedule a film screening venue for your class, please view the Hires and Gummere Morley rooms on the Places page.
Faculty Bibliography
The Faculty Bibliography is a comprehensive and authoritative archive of citations to Haverford College faculty publications. This repository contains over 3,000 records dating back to 1986.
Faculty wishing to submit citations for inclusion in the database should contact Norm Medeiros.
New to the Collection
- Constitutional conservatism : liberty, self-government, and political moderation
Peter Berkowitz
Stanford, CA : Hoover Institution Press, 2013 - The great orchestrator : Arthur Judson and American arts management
James M Doering
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2013 - Franco's international brigades : adventurers, fascists, and christian crusaders in the Spanish Civil War
Christopher Othen
New York : Columbia University Press, 2013 - More real? : art in the age of truthiness
Elizabeth Armstrong
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Minneapolis Institute of Arts Munich : DelMonico Books/Prestel, [2012] - The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas
Kathleen Crowley Schwartzman
Ithaca : ILR Press, 2013 - Japan's modern divide : the photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto
Los Angeles, California : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013 - The history of musical instruments
Curt Sachs
Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2006 - The exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Philip K Dick
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011 - The woman upstairs : a novel
Claire Messud
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 - Marcus Aurelius in the Historia Augusta and beyond
Geoff W. (Geoffrey William) Adams
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]";"2013 - The Islamic veil : a beginner's guide
Elizabeth M Bucar
Oxford, England : Oneworld, 2012 - What was contemporary art?
Richard Meyer
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013] - Inventing the egghead : the battle over brainpower in American culture
Aaron Lecklider
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 - Disruptive innovation in Chinese and Indian businesses : the strategic implications for local entrepreneurs and global incumbents
Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge, 2013 - Airmail : the letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtromer
Robert Bly
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2013";"2013 - Imperial debris : on ruins and ruination
Durham London : Duke University Press, 2013 - The love doll
Laurie Simmons
[New York : Salon 94 Tokyo : Tomio Koyama, 2012] - Spiritual and visionary communities : out to save the world
Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2013 - Semantics for Latin : an introduction
A. M. (Andrew M.) Devine
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2013 - Black comics : politics of race and representation
London New York : Bloomsbury, 2013 - Pain, parties, work : Sylvia Plath in New York, summer 1953
Elizabeth Winder
New York, NY : Harper, c2013 - At the border of empires : the Tohono O'odham, gender, and assimilation, 1880--1934
Andrae M. (Andrae Micheal) Marak
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2013 - Forgotten borough : writers come to terms with Queens
Albany : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, c2011 - Freedom from want : the remarkable success story of BRAC, the global grassroots organization that's winning the fight against poverty
Ian Smillie
Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2009 - Personality disorders : and the five-factor model of personality
Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2013 - Japanese religions and globalization
Ugo Dessi
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York : Routledge, c2013 - Japanese art
Joan Stanley-Baker
New York : Thames and Hudson, 2000 - Photography and China
Claire Roberts
London : Reaktion Books, 2013 - A box of photographs
Roger Grenier
Chicago London : University of Chicago Press, 2013";"2013 - Esoteric cosmos
Mariko Mori
Wolfsburg : Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg : Cantz, 1999 - Argentina, cine y ciudad : el espacio urbano y la narativa filmica de los ultimos anos
Alberto P. (Alberto Pedro) Chamorro
Mar del Plata, Argentina : EUDEM, Editorial Universitaria de Mar del Plata, c2011 - Politics, porn and protest : Japanese avant-garde cinema in the 1960s and 1970s
Isolde Standish
New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2011 - Chinese contemporary art : 7 things you should know
Melissa Chiu
New York, N.Y. : AW Asia, c2008 - Methods in epidemiologic research
Ian Robert Dohoo
Charlottetown, P.E.I. : VER Inc., c2012 - Who owns the future?
Jaron Lanier
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013 - Reading Paradise lost
David Hopkins
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2013 - Art of change : new directions from China
London : Hayward Publishing, 2012 - Why they left : stories of the Iranian activists in exile
Faraz Sanei
[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, c2012 - New views of New England : studies in material and visual culture, 1680-1830
Boston : The Colonial Society of Massachusetts : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2012 - Prague, capital of the twentieth century : a surrealist history
Derek Sayer
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]";"2013 - Art of the Islamic world : a resource for educators
N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York
New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art [New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press], c2012 - Studien zur Komposition der mekkanischen Suren : die literarische Form des Koran - ein Zeugnis seiner Historizitat?
Angelika Neuwirth
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2007 - Race against time : the need for legal and institutional reform ahead of Zimbabwe's elections
Dewa Mavhinga
[New York, NY] : Human Rights Watch, 2013 - Holomorphic curves in symplectic geometry
Basel Boston : Birkhauser, c1994 - The view from above : the science of social space
Jeanne Haffner
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2013 - The master [DVD]
[New York, NY] : Weinstein Company Beverly Hills, CA : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2013] - Selecting effective treatments : a comprehensive, systematic guide to treating mental disorders
Linda Seligman
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012 - Control in the police organization
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1983 - Sun Yuan & Peng Yu : can't have it all
Yuan Sun
Hong Kong : Timezone 8, c2009 - Tokyo cyberpunk : posthumanism in Japanese visual culture
Steven T Brown
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 - Receptacle of the sacred : illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia
Jinah Kim
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013] - The Columbia anthology of modern Chinese drama
New York : Columbia University Press, c2010 - France
Bristol : Intellect, c2013 - Constructing charisma : celebrity, fame, and power in nineteenth-century Europe
New York : Berghahn Books, 2013 - Skryabin, philosophy and the music of desire
Kenneth M Smith
Farnham, Surrey Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2013 - Cinema Taiwan: politics, popularity, and state of the arts
Abingdon [England] N.Y. : Routledge, 2007 - Letters from Lillian : faith and practice among modern liberal Quakers
Elizabeth F Boardman
[United States : E.F. Boardman], 2011, c2012 - Virginia Woolf in context
Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2012 - Comics and narration
Thierry Groensteen
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2013 - Screening enlightenment : Hollywood and the cultural reconstruction of defeated Japan
Hiroshi Kitamura
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010 - Curating subjects
London : Open Editions, c2007 - Language & power in the early Middle Ages
Patrick J. Geary
Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013 - Kings in disguise
James Vance
New York : W.W. Norton, c2006 - Contested holiness : Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
Rivka Gonen
Jersey City, NJ : KTAV Publishing House, c2003 - The Holocaust, Fascism, and memory : essays in the history of ideas
Dan Stone
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]";"2013 - Latina Icons : iconos femeninos Latinos e Hispanoamericanos
Mountain View, Calif. : Floricanto Press, c2006 - Angles of ascent : a Norton anthology of contemporary African American poetry
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2013 - Made in the margins : Latina/o constructions of U.S. religious history
Hjamil A Martinez-Vazquez
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2013 - Southern cross the dog : a novel
Bill Cheng
New York : Ecco, 2013 - They took everything from me : forced evictions, unlawful expropriations, and house demolitions in Azerbaijan's capital
Jane Buchanan
[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, c2012 - Brian Dettmer : September 1-30, 2009, Toumey Tourell, San Francisco
Brian Dettmer
San Francisco, CA : Toumey Tourell Fine Art, [2009] - The geometry of an art : the history of the mathematical theory of perspective from Alberti to Monge
Kirsti Andersen
New York London : Springer, c2007 - Choral music. Selections
Eric Whitacre
New York : Decca, p2010 - Comparative mysticism : an anthology of original sources
New York : Oxford University Press, c2013 - Iraq's information crimes law : badly written provisions and draconian punishments violate due process and free speech
Stephen Raab
[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, c2012 - In your face
Mario Testino
Cologne : Taschen, c2012 - Yoko Ono : have you seen the horizon lately
Yoko Ono
Oxford, England : Museum of Modern Art, c1997 - Logic : the laws of truth
Nicholas J. J. (Nicholas Jeremy Josef) Smith
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2012] - There was a country : a personal history of Biafra
Chinua Achebe
New York : Penguin Press, c2012 - Curtailing criticism : intimidation and obstruction of civil society in Uganda
Maria Burnett
[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, c2012 - Its ghostly workshop : poems
Ron Smith
Baton Rouge [La.] : Louisiana State University Press, c2013 - Libertas and the practice of politics in the late Roman Republic
Valentina Arena
Cambridge, [England] New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 - Lina and Serge : the love and wars of Lina Prokofiev
Simon Alexander Morrison
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013 - Humanitarian work psychology
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 - Worse than the devil : anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and justice in a time of terror
Dean A Strang
Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2013 - Turned away : summary returns of unaccompanied migrant children and adult asylum seekers from Italy to Greece
Alice Farmer
[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, c2013 - Revolution graffiti : street art of the new Egypt
Mia Grondahl
Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2012 - Main group chemistry
William Henderson
New York : Wiley-Interscience [Cambridge, England] : Royal Society of Chemistry, c2002 - Henry VIII and the court : art, politics and performance
Farnham, Surrey Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013 - A history of art in 20th-Century China
Peng 880-01 Lu
Milano : Charta, [2010], 2010. (Truccazzano : Bianca & Volta, 2010) - Show me the numbers : designing tables and graphs to enlighten
Stephen Few
Burlingame, Calif. : Analytics Press, c2012 - Emperor of the world : Charlemagne and the construction of imperial authority, 800-1229
Anne Austin Latowsky
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013 - Dear Mark Twain : letters from his readers
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013 - Making samba : a new history of race and music in Brazil
Marc A. Hertzman
Durham London : Duke University Press, 2013 - Modern Japan : a social and political history
Elise K Tipton
London New York : Routledge, 2008 - Ed Ruscha and some Los Angeles apartments
Virginia Heckert
Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013 - New and selected poems, 1962-2012
Charles Simic
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013 - Baroque science
Ofer Gal
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 - Native apostles : Black and Indian missionaries in the British Atlantic world
Edward E. Andrews
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013 - The Qing opening to the ocean : Chinese maritime policies, 1684-1757
Gang Zhao
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013] - Naive super
Erlend Loe
Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2005 - Debussy in performance
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c1999 - Japanese cinema encyclopedia. The horror, fantasy, and scifi films
Thomas Weisser
Miami, Fla. : Vital Books Asian Cult Cinema Publications, 1998, c1997 - Richard Wright's Native son
Andrew Warnes
London New York : Routledge, 2007 - The Oxford handbook of rehabilitation psychology
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, c2012 - Shark's fins and millet
Ilona Ralf Sues
Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Pub. Co., 1945, c1944 - What doesn't kill us : the new psychology of posttraumatic growth
Stephen Joseph
New York : Basic Books, c2011 - Suffer the little children : uses of the past in Jewish and African American children's literature
Jodi Eichler-Levine
New York : New York Univeristy Press, 2013 - As American as shoofly pie : the foodlore and fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine
William Woys Weaver
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 - Pink globalization : Hello Kitty's trek across the Pacific
Christine Reiko Yano
Durham : Duke University Press, 2013 - Red hot : Asian art today from the Chaney Family Collection
Houston : Museum of Fine Arts, c2007 - The ravenous brain : how the new science of consciousness explains our insatiable search for meaning
Daniel Bor
New York : Basic Books, c2012 - Gnostic religion in antiquity
R. van den Broek
Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 - The structure of singing : system and art in vocal technique
Richard Miller
Boston : Schirmer/Cengage Learning, c1996 - Bible. Former Prophets. English. Alter. 2013
New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2013 - Persistent Ruskin : studies in influence, assimilation, and effect
Aldershot, Hants, England : Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company, c2013 - Contemporary Chinese art : primary documents
New York : Museum of Modern Art Durham, N.C. : Distributed by Duke University Press, c2010 - The Anglican psalter : the psalms of David pointed and edited for chanting
London : Canterbury Press, 2009 - Yoga in practice
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012 - Communism and Zionism in Palestine during the British Mandate
Jacob Hen-Tov
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2012 - How to create the perfect wife : Britain's most ineligible bachelor and his enlightened quest to train the ideal mate
Wendy Moore
New York : Basic Books, c2013 - Strangers on their native soil : opposition to United States' governance in Louisiana's Orleans territory, 1803-1809
Julien (Julien Paul) Vernet
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013] - A pre-Raphaelite journey : the art of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Pamela Gerrish Nunn
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press : National Museums Liverpool, [2012?] - Fibonacci Batman : new & selected poems (1991-2011)
Maureen Seaton
Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013 - Art and China's revolution
Melissa Chiu
New York : Asia Society New Haven : In Association with Yale University Press, c2008 - Louis Marshall and the rise of Jewish ethnicity in America : a biography
M. M. (Matthew Mark) Silver
Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013 - Muslim identities : an introduction to Islam
Aaron W. Hughes
New York : Columbia University Press, c2013 - Kingdom of beauty : mingei and the politics of folk art in Imperial Japan
Kim Brandt
Durham : Duke University Press, 2007 - Intercultural communication : globalization and social justice
Kathryn Sorrells
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2013 - Under siege : indiscriminate bombing and abuses in Sudan's Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states
Jehanne Henry
[New York?] : Human Rights Watch, [2012]";"2012 - Polishing your prose : how to turn first drafts into finished work
Steven M Cahn
New York : Columbia University Press, c2013 - Information dashboard design : the effective visual communication of data
Stephen Few
Beijing Cambridge [MA] : O'Reilly, c2006 - Becoming big league : Seattle, the Pilots, and stadium politics
William H. Mullins
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2013 - The answer is no : too little compassionate release in US federal prisons
Jamie Fellner
[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, c2012 - Under divine auspices : divine ideology and the visualisation of imperial power in the Severan period
Clare Rowan
Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 - Israel's death hierarchy : casualty aversion in a militarized democracy
Yagil Levy
New York : New York University Press, 2012 - Waiting for justice : accountability before Guinea's courts for the September 28, 2009 stadium massacre, rapes, and other abuses
Elise Keppler
[New York] : Human Rights Watch, [2012]";"2012 - Hear no evil : forced labor and corporate responsibility in Eritrea's mining sector
Chris Albin-Lackey
[New York, NY] : Human Rights Watch, 2013 - The new world of police accountability
Samuel Walker
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2005 - Prospero's son : life, books, love, and theater
Seth Lerer
Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 - Political self-sacrifice : agency, body and emotion in international relations
K. M. (Karin M.) Fierke
Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 - Sex workers at risk : condoms as evidence of prostitution in four US cities
Megan McLemore
[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, c2012 - Transcendent in America : Hindu-inspired meditation movements as new religion
Lola Williamson
New York : New York University Press, c2010 - Martin Amis
Brian Finney
London New York : Routledge, 2008 - Inferno : a novel
Dan Brown
New York : Doubleday, 2013 - Japanese cinema : the essential handbook
Thomas Weisser
Miami, Fla. : Vital Books Inc. : Asian Cult Cinema Publications, 2003 - Making human rights a reality
Emilie Hafner-Burton
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013] - Courtesans, concubines, and the cult of female fidelity : gender and social change in China, 1000-1400
Beverly Jo Bossler
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2013 - The psychology major : career options and strategies for success
R. Eric Landrum
Boston : Pearson, c2014 - The Middle East
Los Angeles : Sage/CQ Press, [2014] - Aquarian odyssey : a photographic trip into the sixties
Don Snyder
New York : Liveright, 1979 - Eating and its disorders
Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 - Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 - An introduction to Islam in the 21st century
Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
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