Libraries

Resources

Case-Geyer provides students and faculty with sophisticated technological resources while ensuring easier access to Colgate’s outstanding collections.

The building houses not only Colgate’s library specialists but also its information technology team, creating a group of over 70 educational experts available under one roof. It is also the home of multiple exhibitions throughout the year.

A robotic storage and retrieval mechanism (LASR) accepts a student’s order and delivers a book to the circulation desk in minutes. It is housed in a vault approximately 30 ft. high x 115 ft. long and holds half a million books.

The 51,000-gross-square-foot center, designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbot Architects of Boston, offers a wide array of services on five levels:

• Level one houses a conservation lab, audio and visual studios, government documents, and network services on the first floor.
• Level two offers a rare book reading room, special collections and archives, Library of Congress materials, multimedia production rooms, faculty carrels, reader seating, and the LASR.
• Level three provides circulation and interlibrary services, ITS, and the Blackmore Archive of Recorded Sound.
• Level four offers additional Library of Congress materials, several meeting rooms, periodicals, and technical services.
• Level five houses a café and a 24-hour study area as well as two classrooms, a large reading room, separate areas for videoconferencing, a multimedia production suite, and public computing.