The Chapin Library is closed to readers and visitors until September 2008. All reference services have been suspended, and no exhibitions are on view in Stetson Hall.

In advance of the planned renovation of Stetson Hall and construction of an adjacent library/technology center, the Chapin Library must move its operations to temporary quarters in summer 2008. Three apartments in the historic Southworth Schoolhouse, near campus on the corner of Southworth and School Streets, will serve as the reading room and offices of both the Chapin Library and the Archives and Special Collections department of the Williams College Library. The bulk of the Chapin holdings will be stored in off-site high-density shelving until the new Stetson-Sawyer complex opens in 2011, and will not be generally available for use in the interim. A small working collection, however, will be kept at the Southworth Schoolhouse, while the Founding Documents of the United States will be on temporary display in the Williams College Museum of Art.

During the years of construction, the Chapin Library will continue to offer research assistance to the Williams community and to make presentations to class groups when requested. Materials that have been requested by faculty and students for use during 2008-2011, or that staff have identified as likely to be used, will be kept at hand in temporary quarters (space permitting).

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