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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.
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.
April 29, 2024
Interested in exploring the holdings of Brandeis Archives and Special Collections? Check out our Finding Aids Database!
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.
February 28, 2024
Brandeis Library's Research Excellence Prize recognizes students who apply sophisticated information literacy skills to the selection, evaluation and synthesis of sources for a research project. In addition to highlighting exemplary student scholarship, the Prize serves to encourage students to engage with library resources and make use of library services. Each prize is for $250.
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.
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.
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!
February 8, 2024
In honor of Love Data Week (February 12-16, 2024), the Library is highlighting our data services and resources. We support Brandeis students, faculty, and other researchers with a range of resources for working with data to make your research and teaching successful.
February 1, 2024
In honor of Black History Month, Brandeis Library is highlighting library resources and collections about Black history.
January 5, 2024
DeisHacks isn’t your typical hackathon. We pair hackers with local nonprofits to build real-world solutions. Join 200 hackers for 48 hours while we hack for social good.
January 5, 2024
Welcome to Brandeis from your Library! The Library is here to support you throughout your studies at Brandeis: Learn more about the Library’s services, ranging from our rare books to robotics!
December 1, 2023
As we approach finals period, the Library is here to support you! Stop by the library to de-stress and unwind. Events and activities begin December 8th!
November 10, 2023
To mark GIS Day on November 15, Brandeis Library is highlighting resources for GIS and mapping–and celebrating mapping projects created by Brandeis classes!
November 10, 2023
In celebration of I Am Global Week, Brandeis Library is highlighting our databases with content from all over the world and our recreational reading collection, which includes materials in a variety of languages.
November 3, 2023
In mid-August, the RTI department built and ran a 1-week curriculum for the LOOP Lab on using Drones for Aerial Photography and filmmaking. This includes everything from learning to fly a drone, up to getting an FAA pilot's license and insurance.
November 2, 2023
On September 9 and 10, 2023, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) held a pedagogy seminar for Brandeis graduate students. The seminar aimed to teach graduate students techniques for course design and inclusive teaching, whether they were experienced instructors or teaching for the first time.
October 3, 2023
Eileen Myles, a poet, novelist, performance artist, and art journalist, will be speaking on Oct. 17, 2023, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
October 3, 2023
The MakerLab team will hold Open MakerLab Hours on Tuesdays, 5 - 7 p.m., and Thursdays, 2 - 4 p.m., during the Fall 2023 semester. During these hours there will be someone in the MakerLab to help you with your project ideas! Stop by the MakerLab on the Farber Mezzanine Level, and look for someone in a green apron to assist.
October 3, 2023
Check out the University Archives research guide, which includes interviews, films, photographs, and more, or our various displays around the library. Recently, staff from the archives assisted with images used in a variety of articles featured in the Summer 2023 Brandeis Magazine and assisted with the campus timeline.
September 27, 2023
We've made some important enhancements to Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Scan on Demand: You can now request textbooks and required reading materials. And when classes are not in session, you request scans of chapters from books on reserve.
September 20, 2023
Reserve your group study room or learn more by visiting our Group Study Rooms page.
August 8, 2023
Brandeis Library is currently participating in the ProQuest Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) program. Through an annual subscription fee, the EBA program provides access to a large number of primary source databases and, at the end of each fiscal year, the Library is able to select titles for perpetual access.
August 7, 2023
Brandeis Library now has access to JSTOR's Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection.
August 2, 2023
Introducing The Center for Teaching and Learning’s new Learning Design Gallery. This series will highlight faculty experiences, collaborations with Learning Designers, and innovative tools that have positively shaped teaching here at Brandeis. Our first feature in the Learning Design Gallery is all about VoiceThread. VoiceThread is a unique tool that can transform the manner in which instructors offer feedback on students' oral presentations. Watch our short video highlighting one faculty member’s collaboration with a learning designer to set up VoiceThread in his online course space. He was able to provide pinpoint feedback on their video presentations, resulting in improved presentation quality and an enhanced learning experience. Faculty in the language arts, business schools, or other fields that require students to get input on public speaking techniques have found this to be a very useful tool. Make sure to visit our website for future Learning Design Gallery features!
July 5, 2023
We have several new resources that are now accessible through OneSearch. Click this post to see the full list of new journals!
June 23, 2023
The Brandeis Library's Research Excellence Prize recognizes students who apply sophisticated information literacy skills to the selection, evaluation and synthesis of sources for a research project. The 2023 winners were selected from a pool of outstanding student submissions in eight categories, including a new category and collaboration with the Samuels ‘63 Center for Community Partnerships and Civic Transformation (COMPACT) for community engaged research.
June 5, 2023
The Brandeis Library’s University Archives and Special Collection is happy to announce the newly completed exhibit: "At Home with Justice Brandeis and Family: The Brandeis/Popkin Room". Located on Goldfarb 1 near the group study rooms, this exhibit features furniture and objects from the summer home of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
May 8, 2023
Recently completed renovations on the Goldfarb mezzanine level have transformed a formerly bleak room into the new Judaica Reading Commons. The space features warm, inviting coloring, a seminar table, comfortable seating and a glassboard (updated white board) intended to encourage collaborative work. Located between the Judaica Reference Room and the main open space at the top of the stairs to the mezzanine, the Judaica Reading Room is designed to encourage a sense of community focused on the resources featured there, and throughout the mezzanine level.
March 17, 2023
The Brandeis Library's Research Excellence Prize recognizes students who apply sophisticated information literacy skills to the selection, evaluation and synthesis of sources for a research project. In addition to highlighting exemplary student scholarship, the Award serves to encourage students to engage with library resources and make use of library services. Each prize is for $250.
February 28, 2023
The library is happy to announce that we have several new resources that are now accessible through OneSearch, including new science and climate journals.
February 8, 2023
Over the Feb. 3 - 5 weekend, the Brandeis Library housed the 6th annual DeisHacks. Hosted by the Brandeis MakerLab partnered with the Brandeis International Business School, this year's DeisHacks was a 48-hour hybrid competition targeted at real-world solutions, made possible by the Perlmutter Institute for Global Business Leadership and the Hassenfeld Family Innovation Center.
January 17, 2023
Deishacks is Brandeis University's not-for-profit Hackathon! It's a 48 hour hackathon from Feb. 3-5 and there's no technical experience necessary. What makes Deishacks special is what the teams of students competing work on: developing real world solutions to real-world problems.
January 13, 2023
A few months back, Peter Rothstein ‘66 approached the library with an offer of six historic prints by Roman Vishniac, the iconic photographer of pre-World War II Jewish life in eastern Europe.
December 9, 2022
As we approach finals period, the Library is here to support you. Stop by the library between Dec. 6 and Dec. 19 to destress and unwind at the library's Community Care and Comfort events.
November 17, 2022
Want to make something to save the planet? Apply now for an Environmental Benefit Maker in Residence grant! $500 funding available to selected projects.
November 16, 2022
In celebration of I Am Global Week, Brandeis Library is highlighting our non-English recreational reading materials and databases with content from all over the world.
November 15, 2022
November is Native American Heritage Month, and this month the library is highlighting our resources and collections about our nation’s original Indigenous peoples.
October 17, 2022
October is upon us which means...SPOOKY SEASON is here! Check out our Halloween display on Farber Level 1.
October 12, 2022
In honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, the Library is featuring several relevant resources.
September 27, 2022
The International Business School and Brandeis Library have partnered together to provide online access to The Wall Street Journal to current Brandeis students, faculty, and staff through a subscription paid for by the International Business School.
September 22, 2022
Just in time for Brandeis' 75th anniversary, the university receives a remarkable trove of Brandeis family artifacts and ephemera including handwritten letters to and from political luminaries, photos, an exquisite fountain pen, and even a personal 1941 telegram from Franklin D. Roosevelt.
September 19, 2022
Observed annually from September 15 to October 15, Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the history, heritage, contributions, and diversity of the American Latinx community. University Archives and Special Collections is home to a range of materials documenting the experiences of Latinx students at Brandeis, and taking the opportunity to highlight them over the next month.
September 12, 2022
Visit the library's collaborative display in the café area of Farber 1, highlighting resources on Sexual Health and Wellness from the library's collections and from our health and wellness partners on campus.
September 5, 2022
Join us at the Library for a voter registration event on September 15th, and an Absentee Jamboree on October 13th, and prepare to get out the vote this election year!
August 29, 2022
After a whole summer's worth of work, the Library unveiled our new, redone service points on Goldfarb 1 at the start of Fall semester.
May 31, 2022
Look back on the inaugural class of Brandeis students, celebrating their 70th reunion this year!
Current Annual Report
The 2020-2021 annual report details the Library's continuation of services throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, and more!
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