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For Fall 2020, the Wellesley College Libraries are staffed from 8:30AM to 4:30PM, Monday-Friday. Only on-campus students, faculty, and staff may visit the libraries. All access is by OneCard.
Upcoming holiday hours:
Labor Day, September 7, 2020: Clapp Library will be staffed 8:30AM-4:30PM, Art and Music Libraries access for faculty and staff only.
Indigenous Peoples' Day, October 12, 2020: Clapp Library will be staffed 8:30AM-4:30PM, Art and Music Libraries access for faculty and staff only.
Access by location is as follows:
Clapp Library
- Students may reserve 2-hour blocks of time, 8:30am-4:30pm, M-F. Reservation instructions are available at this link. Access for appointments and classes is enabled separately.
- The Archives Reading Room remains closed. Call the Archives at 781-283-3745 or email archives@wellesley.edu.
- The Special Collections Reading Room remains closed. Call 781-283-2129 or email specialcollections@wellesley.edu. Faculty may request appointments to visit Special Collections.
- Faculty and staff have OneCard access 7:00am-10:00pm, seven days a week.
Art and Music Libraries
- Students may swipe in for quick visits and to check out materials from 8:30am-4:30pm, M-F. No study spaces will be available. NOTE: Music will have printing, copying and scanning available; Art will have copying and scanning available but no networked printing at this time.
- Faculty and staff have OneCard access 7:00am-10:00pm, seven days a week.
Faculty, staff, and on-campus students may now use our Wellesley Library To Go service to request circulating materials. The service is available Mondays through Fridays, 8:30AM-4:30PM.
Off-campus faculty may request permission from the Provost for access to the library buildings on weekends from 8:30am-4:30pm.