Library

Television research is like a CSI episode.  The culprit can hide in communication, sociology, psychology, and just about any other type of database.  Give yourself time and search systematically; you’ll find everything you need to make your case. 

We want to hear from you!! Take the survey at the link from the right of the library homepage and enter into a raffle for one of five gift certificates worth $20 at the bookstore.

This semester the Bates community will have available an expanding online research library of around ten thousand scholarly monographs …

The library is very pleased to make Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam available to the Bates community.

Prof. Bruce Bourque, Chief Archaeologist and Curator of Ethnography at the Maine State Museum and lecturer in Anthropology, interweaves three narratives into a fascinating and engaging account of the distinctive Red Paint culture of ancient coastal Maine.

From 1986 to 1988, Joe Smith recorded interviews with more than 200 recording artists and executives. The source tapes from these interviews are being made available to the public from the Library of Congress.