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REFERENCE & RESEARCH ASSISTANCE
Reference Assistance
- Basic reference assistance is available whenever library staff are
on duty: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- Student assistants are available at the service desk at all times
and can help patrons with questions about using the library catalog,
finding reserve materials, requesting materials from the Smith College
Libraries Storage Facility, requesting inter-library loans, and connecting
to databases and Internet resources.
- Use Ask
a Reference Librarian, an online reference service for brief, factual
questions. Available to students, faculty, and staff at Smith College.
- The Josten Performing Arts Library Research
& Collections page provides links to major research library
catalogs, indexing and abstracting services for the performing arts,
and other research resources.
Research Appointments
Contact Marlene Wong, the
Josten Performing Arts Librarian, at (413) 585-2931 for research assistance
with a thesis, term paper or class assignment, or any other performing
arts research project. Her regular schedule is Monday through Friday from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but arrangements can be made to meet at other times.
Library Instruction
- Marlene Wong, the Josten
Performing Arts Librarian, provides classroom instruction in research
methodology and resources and general orientations to the Josten library.
Please contact her at (413) 585-2931 at least one week before a presentation
is needed.
- Research guides for current Music, Theatre, and Dance courses and
other research topics are listed on the Library
Research Guides.
Requesting Josten Materials
Josten Library materials are not available for off-campus delivery through
the Five College Delivery System. Items housed in the Smith College Libraries
Storage Facility are available for on-campus delivery to the Josten library
using the Four College Library Catalog "Request Item" function.
For more information, see Requesting
Items from Storage.
Contact the Josten library service desk at (413) 585-2930 or Janet
Spongberg, Josten Library Circulation Coordinator, at (413) 585-2932
for information about borrowing Josten Library materials.
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