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Colby College Libraries
The Colby College Libraries are the libraries that support Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The libraries provide access to a merged catalog of more than eight million items via the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin consortium of libraries and MaineCat,〔http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/library/about/policies/Access/infonetpolicy.cfm〕 with daily courier service from other libraries in Maine. Another consortium, NExpress, comprising Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Northeastern, Wellesley, and Williams, provides additional access to research materials. Twelve professional librarians provide research assistance to students, faculty, and outside researchers.〔http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/catalogue/2009_2010/academic_information/index.cfm〕 Instruction in the use of the library and its research materials is offered throughout the curriculum, from an introduction in beginning English classes to in-depth subject searching using sophisticated tools in upper-level classes.
== Miller Library ==
Miller Library is Colby's main library, which stands at the center of campus. Designed by Jens Frederick Larson of the firm Larson & Wells and modeled after the Baker Memorial Library at Dartmouth College,〔"About Miller Library", Colby College website, accessed at http://libguides.colby.edu/hours〕 Miller was built in 1939 and named for the parents of Merton L. Miller (class of 1890);〔Mayflower Hill: A History of Colby College. Earl Smith, University Press of New England, 2006, p52〕 an addition that doubled the size of the original building was opened in 1983. Miller Library houses the humanities and social science collections, study rooms that are open 24 hours, a computer lab, the College archives, and Special Collections.〔http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/library/special/〕 Miller also contains a computer cluster and study areas that are open around the clock, and is equipped with wireless Internet access.
An open-stack system allows access to the collection with the online catalog and electronic indexes and Internet files are available on library workstations and computers campus-wide. The collection supports all curriculum areas and contains more than 600 currently received print journals, more than 47,000 electronic journals, and domestic and international daily newspapers. The Colby libraries are a repository for U.S. government and Maine state documents.〔http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/library/government-documents.cfm〕
Colby College's Miller Library became the center of a national controversy when more than half the collection was transferred to storage in fall 2014. Lack of faculty consultation was documented in "Talking Points" unearthed by student journalist Nick Merrill of The Colby Echo.〔http://www.thecolbyecho.com/opinion/sorry-your-new-library-still-sucks〕 Articles were written against the renovation in Slate,〔http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/05/college_libraries_should_keep_their_books_in_the_stacks.html〕 The New Criterion,〔http://www.newcriterion.com/posts.cfm/Colby-College-sacks-the-stacks-7434〕 The Chronicle of Higher Education,〔http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2014/04/mean-presidents-and-other-campus-news/〕 and Colby Faculty published an open letter against the new Miller Library, the Colby administration's dismissal of professor's concerns, and the burdens to teaching and research that resulted.〔http://www.thecolbyecho.com/opinion/an-open-letter-from-the-faculty-concerning-miller〕 An original story by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling in The mid-Maine Morning Sentinel and the Portland Press Herald 〔http://www.pressherald.com/2014/04/15/colby_library_renovation_ignites_debate_over_role_of_physical_books_in_a_digital_age_/〕 was carried by Publisher's Weekly and the Associated Press, appearing throughout major newspapers in the United States. Miller became a national example of the "Endangered Library," and critics were quick to see the parallel with the New York Public Library plan to send a large part of its collection to storage: a plan reversed in 2014 shortly after the Colby Library controversy.〔http://librariesincrisis.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/growing-trend-warehoused-libraries/〕 According to the blog "Annoyed Librarian" published in the Library Journal, "the only person supporting this is the library director. The faculty and students are all protesting".〔http://lj.libraryjournal.com/blogs/annoyedlibrarian/2014/05/15/books-in-the-stacks/〕 On July 15, 2014, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Colby alumnus Alan Taylor wrote a letter to new Colby President David Greene protesting the "substituting office space for texts" in the Colby Library and the exclusion of faculty input in the renovation process. 〔http://savemillerlibrary.blogspot.com/2014/07/two-time-pulitzer-prize-winner-alan.html〕
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