Library Building and Department Hours
8 Chapel Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8527
Phone: 848-932-9411
Fax: 732-932-6777
The Mabel Smith Douglass Library, located on the Douglass Campus, has a primary collection focus on women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. It is also home to the Performing Arts Library and the New Brunswick Libraries media collection.
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Collections at Douglass
The Performing Arts Library collections include scores, periodicals, and books shelved on the ground level as well as audio-visual materials that are part of the media collection on the ground level.
The media collection, the most comprehensive within Rutgers University Libraries, includes DVDs, VHS tapes, laserdiscs, CDs and LPs and 16mm film stored at another site on subjects selected to meet teaching and research needs.
Special Equipment
Douglass Library loans audiovisual recording equipment and related accessories to Rutgers students, faculty, and staff. Details are available on the booking form.
Graduate Carrels
The Douglass Library has 16 lockable graduate carrels available in the Graduate Reading Room on the Mezzanine Level. Graduate carrels can be assigned to an eligible patron for an academic year at a time. Details are available on the Douglass Graduate Carrel Application form.
Get Help
Librarians at Douglass Library
- Kayo Denda, Head, Margery Somers Foster Center & Librarian for Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Bret McCandless, Music and Performing Arts Librarian
- Lily Todorinova, Undergraduate Experience Librarian