Skip to Main Content
Skidmore College main website

Lucy Scribner Library

Know Your Library

GIS Lab

GIS Lab which is a classroom with a lot of PC computers and chairs with maps around the walls. Students stands and sit as one student works on a large whiteboard at the front of the room.

Students, community members, local governments and organizations alike convene in the second floor GIS Lab. GIS is a combination of information, techniques, software, and creativity to present, analyze, manipulate, and interact with data that is geographically referenced.

Take a course, or just stop by during GIS office hours to see what's going on!

Everyone's Got a Podcast! Do You?

Two side-by-side images. The one on the left is a student wearing headphones and using recording equipment in a sound studio. In the right image an instructor shows studios some photography equipment in a classroom.

LEDS (Learning Experience Design & Digital Scholarship Support) provide educational support in areas like audio and video recording as well as other technologies like VR.  There's one recording studio in their 2nd floor department and two more studios in Media Services in the basement.

Take a Look Through the Stacks!

A photograph with a window overlooking the campus field and two book stacks on each side.

The library print collection spans four floors and offers students access to over 350,000 books. Scribner Library books are organized according to the Library of Congress Classification system.

Something Borrowed...

A shelf with several stacks of books, each wrapped with rubber bands with labels sticking out of them.

If Scribner Library doesn't have the book that you're looking for, don't despair! Try Interlibrary loan! The Interlibrary Loan office, located on the second floor of the library works tirelessly to make sure you have access to the resources you need.

Study Buddies Welcome...Or Not

A study room with a table, chairs, and large-screen monitor along the wall

Is your MB107 project making you feel like a CEO? Reserve a conference or group sized room to study with your classmates for up to 2 hours at a time. Reserve a room online using this link, or use the console outside any given room.  You can also use the rooms by yourself if you need a quiet moment away from noisy roommates.

Find the Fish

Brightly colored coral that has been crocheted with yarn and in the center a crocheted, yellow, clownfish

Displayed prominently in the East of the 2nd floor is the Saratoga Springs Satellite Reef, which was part of a 2022 exhibition at the Tang Museum. Part of the reef is now housed in the library.  It's one of the many artworks that you can find throughout the building and list in our Art in the Library guide.