Library

Housed in the Academic Commons, the Mary Norton Clapp Library has been quick to take advantage of the communication and publication capacities of the Web to provide services to students and faculty, make collections of books and journals more readily available locally as well as globally, and foreground the library's role as a space for work and as an access point for quality resources.

In addition to providing collections of printed, and electronic materials in all the disciplines taught at the College, the Library participates in consortial arrangements that deliver or otherwise give campus researchers access to resources held beyond Oxy. While most of the Library’s materials, services, and staff are housed in the Academic Commons, musical scores, recordings, listening facilities, and selected reference books are located in Booth Hall and the Instruction & Research Consultant for the Arts & Humanities is based in Weingart, home of the Art History and Visual Arts Dept.

The Special Collections and College Archives unit is on the third floor of the Academic Commons. It is home to many notable gifts and endowments given to the College for the advancement of its teaching mission and in recognition of its role in the preservation of cultural heritage. In support of undergraduate, scholarly and public research, the Special Collections staff preserves and provides access to thousands of rare books, archival papers and manuscripts, visual media, paintings, prints and artifacts significant for the arts, literature, theatre, book arts, and local, regional and cultural history. Special Collections is also home to the college archives, known as Occidentalia, documenting 125 years of Oxy history.