About the Library
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The Brandeis Library houses more than 2 million volumes (both electronic and physical), 45,000 journals (both electronic and physical) and 4,000 films, with a growing collection in the sciences, creative arts, humanities, government documents, Judaica and social sciences—including rare and unique collections.
We empower our community to become scholars, creators, and innovators. As a 21st-century Library, our services don’t stop at resources and citation help. We aim to improve literacies ranging from oral communication to digital to information. Librarians and specialists offer consultation sessions, embed themselves in classroom teaching, and host workshops to support research and teaching endeavors throughout campus. Topics include emerging trends in technologies such as machine learning, emerging trends in research such as data visualization, and emerging trends in scholarship such as open access. Service points—including the Research Help Desk, Archives & Special Collections, Sound & Image Media Studios, MakerLab, Automation Lab, and Digital Scholarship Lab—give students, faculty, and staff access to tools and opportunities to learn skills needed to achieve their academic success.
Identity Statement
We partner with one another, and across the campus, to provide inclusive, equitable, and seamless access to expertise, spaces, content, and technology that empowers and inspires members of the Brandeis community.
We advance our common agenda of…
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democratizing access to traditionally exclusive research and design tools across the disciplines
- supporting students, faculty, and staff to seek knowledge and to engage with the larger scholarly world across all disciplines
- supporting students to effectively promote critical thinking
- cultivating inclusive and equitable services and partners across campus to empower all members of the campus community to pursue excellence in teaching, learning, research, and creative work
by…
- selecting, acquiring, and curating collections that will be well-used by the scholars of the Brandeis community, that builds on our strengths, and that will serve current and future teaching and research
- providing expertise and training necessary to find and evaluate content, technology, and other educational resources to all members of the Brandeis community
- empowering students, faculty, staff and researchers to become engaged information seekers by offering training for individuals to develop the literacies (digital, media, oral communication, quantitative, and information) necessary to navigate for the 21st century landscape
- cultivating an environment conducive to innovative and iterative learning
- preserving and disseminating cultural, scholarly, and creative work
- fostering communities of practice that connect faculty from across the University