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  1. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

    Explore campus as a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Tour prominent building and learn more about the campus community.

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    1. Old Library

      Old Library served as the College's library until 1970 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991. Today, it is used for public gatherings, lectures, and performances. The spacious Great Hall, which was once a reading room, was inspired by buildings at Oxford University.

      The Dean of Graduate Studies and many humanities faculty have offices in Old Library.

    2. Rhys Carpenter Library

      Every graduate student has a fully wired carrel in the award-winning Rhys Carpenter Library. Inaugurated in 1997, Carpenter is a research library for archaeology, classics, and the history of art containing more than 125,000 volumes and 300 periodicals. An additional two million volumes can be accessed through the Tri-College library consortium of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges.

      Bryn Mawr’s Art and Artifact Collections number more than 50,000 objects. These collections encompass five areas: fine art, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs; archaeology; anthropology; decorative arts; and geology. The collections enhance the educational mission of the College and serve as a resource for diverse academic departments.

    3. Canaday Library

      Canaday Library houses the humanities and social sciences collections, Special Collections, the Rare Book Room, the College Archives, the Help Desk, and many library and information technology staff offices.

      Bryn Mawr College has three libraries offering diverse, technology-enabled learning spaces and programs, including computer labs with a breadth of discipline-specific software, individual and group study areas, and laptop and multimedia device lending. Artwork from the collection is displayed throughout the campus, with numerous faculty-, staff-, and student-curated exhibits on view every year.

    4. Campus Center

      As the hub of non-academic life, the Marie Salant Neuberger Centennial Campus Center houses the Bookshop, the College post office, student mailboxes, lounge areas, meeting rooms, and Uncommon Grounds Café. The Offices of Career Development and Conferences and Events are also located here. Students, faculty, and staff use the campus center for informal meetings and discussion groups as well as campus-wide social events and activities.

    5. Park Science Center

      Park Science Center houses faculty offices, science classrooms, laboratories, lecture halls, and the Collier Science Library. In the summer of 2015, a new, state-of-the-art Optics Lab was completed in the Physics wing. Currently, a major, two phase renovation to the Park Science Center is underway. The first phase included the construction of a new glass addition in the southern courtyard that provides additional academic space as well as a large student common area.

    6. Collier Science Library

      Constructed in 1990-91, the library is housed in the Marion Edwards Park Science Building and supports programs in the natural sciences, computer science, and mathematics.

      Bryn Mawr College has three libraries offering diverse, technology-enabled learning spaces and programs, including computer labs with a breadth of discipline-specific software, individual and group study areas, and laptop and multimedia device lending.

    7. Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center

      The Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center has become the place to be since reopening in September 2010. The 11,500 sq. ft. fitness center provides over 100 different workout options, including over 50 pieces of cardio equipment, 15 selectorized weight machines, and a multi-purpose room that houses everything from Indoor Cycling to Zumba Fitness! The building hosts two-courts in the Class of 1958 Gymnasium, an eight lane pool, a fitness center with a varsity weight training area, an athletic training room, locker rooms, a conference smart room, and the Department of Athletics & Physical Education offices. This building is home to the College's basketball, badminton, swimming and volleyball teams.

      The second floor houses the fitness center with three distinct areas: one for cardio and weigh machines, a second for classes and group activities and a third focusing on free weights and functional training. The cardio section features three HD plasma televisions with integrated audio listening abilities and treadmills with individual televisions on each machine.  All three areas boast large windows with natural light.

      Augmenting the facility are two playing fields (field hockey, lacrosse and soccer), a practice field and seven tennis courts.

    8. Goodhart Hall

      Goodhart Hall was constructed in 1926-28 and underwent a major renovation in 2009. It is an important campus resource housing the McPherson Auditorium, Hepburn Teaching Theater, and Goodhart Music Room. Goodhart is used for ceremonial events, official academic year events, student productions, and visiting performers.