Planned Outage for Birds of the World
The “Birds of the World” database will be unavailable from 6am Tuesday March 19 until 6am Thursday March 21.
Library Archives
October 10, 2022
SCARAB Exceeds 500,000 Downloads!
Our institutional repository at Bates, SCARAB, serves researchers around the globe.
April 19, 2022
Going somewhere? Check out a Lonely Planet
Ladd has Lonely Planet travel guides for select countries.
April 4, 2022
History Vault: New Primary Sources
Digital primary sources on civil rights, American Indian, immigrant, and antiwar movements.
November 11, 2021
Citations? Projects?? Thesis???
Research Librarians can help you with these and much more!
October 22, 2021
Open Access Week 2021 (October 25-31)
International Open Access Week — It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.
October 13, 2021
NVivo everywhere
The qualitative data analysis software NVivo is now available on all campus Windows lab computers, including in Ladd Library.
October 7, 2021
Netflix Educational Documentaries
A selection of Netflix documentaries – including “13th” and “Abstract: The Art of Design” is available through their YouTube channel, without a subscription
October 1, 2021
Race – The Power of an Illusion
Online access to the documentary series most frequently assigned in Bates courses.
May 27, 2021
Returning library materials
Replacement costs are fully refundable upon return of items.