Amherst College

Zone Your Library
Help us Zone Your Library! We need your input on a new zone guide to Frost Library, helping you find the floors and spaces best-suited to your needs each day. See our prototype guide on Level 1 and add your thoughts, and let us know how you use each floor at our feedback stations, located by the south stairwell.

Amherst College Library named college library of the year
The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) has named us a winner of its 2015 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. The prestigious prize honors one college library, one university library and one community college library as “outstanding in furthering the educational missions of their institutions.” An ACRL press release about the award highlighted the library's "transformation to focus on its objectives of teaching students research skills, promoting and enabling universal access to information, and creating a new model of academic publishing.” 

New! Kanopy streaming video service
The library is pleased to announce a new streaming film and video service. Kanopy offers a selection of over 26,000 films, documentaries and videos. Featured producers in Kanopy's collection include Criterion Collection, PBS, California Newsreel, HBO, Kino Lorber, First Run Features, BBC, Roland Collection, MVD, Seventh Art, Psychotherapy.net, Symptom Media, and many more. Librarians are happy to provide assistance, or to talk with you about possibilities for using this content in classes, including creating playlists, clips, or embedding material in Moodle. Browse and watch films at: http://amherst.kanopystreaming.com.

Humanities Center construction update
2nd floor study space open!
Construction is underway on the 2nd floor of Frost Library. 2nd floor restrooms and elevators will be unavailable for the duration of the project.