Library

Library News Archive: 2024

Student using a laptop

June 14, 2024

Starting June 17, 2024 alumni can log into alumni-licensed online library resources using their My Brandeis Gateway account. All Brandeis community members will see a new login screen when accessing online library resources. Brandeis.edu accounts that many alumni use to log into email and other services, including access to online library resources, will be discontinued effective January 7, 2025.

Colorful bookshelves

May 20, 2024

The Brandeis Library is pleased to announce DeisGallery. The collections in DeisGallery highlight distinctive content from Brandeis University, including digital books, manuscripts, media, photographs, and more.

Archival materials spread out on tables

April 29, 2024

Interested in exploring the holdings of Brandeis Archives and Special Collections? Check out our Finding Aids Database!

Shelley Polanco in front of her photo exhibit in the library

March 18, 2024

We invite you to view "La Fuerza de Brandeis: The Latinx Portrait Project", by Shelley Polanco ‘24. This powerful exhibit features portraits of members of the Brandeis community, including students, faculty, and staff, who identify as Latinx, celebrating their shared heritage, as well as each of their cultural identities.

"I contain multitudes: The myriad of the Jewish experience"

February 28, 2024

What does it mean to be Jewish? How can we consider the intersectionality of identity when we think about Judaism and the Jewish people? The Library's March book display explores the intersections of identity from Jews all over the world, especially Jews on the margins – whether they are queer, trans, Black, Latinx, Sephardi, or Mizrachi and more.

Archival boxes of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp documents

February 28, 2024

Processing Archivist Caroline Littlewood recently created a finding aid for the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Documents, a collection of hundreds of "daily order" bulletins issued by the German command at Theresienstadt.

Two people with their backs to the camera, wearing t-shirts with various logos and text. One person is in a blue t-shirt, and the other is in a pink t-shirt. The t-shirts have the phrase “# HACK/WITH/IMPACT” printed at the top, followed by logos of companies and organizations such as “Brandeis,” “PEGA,” “MITRE,” and others.

February 13, 2024

DeisHacks, the Brandeis social-good hackathon, took place at the library over the January 26-28th weekend, and it was a great success!

A crowd gathers in front of Ford Hall to protest

February 1, 2024

In honor of Black History Month, Brandeis Library is highlighting library resources and collections about Black history.