Library Collections

The Simmons College Library
The main Simmons College Library houses the bulk of the more than 210,000 volumes and over 1,700 periodical subscriptions owned by Simmons, as well as housing a rapidly expanding collection of media materials. A comprehensive reference collection, plus special resources in areas such as women's studies and juvenile literature, are major assets of the Library. Special collections and services include:

  • Career Resources: The Career Resource collections, located in P-304E (One Palace Road), included specialized materials on career planning, job hunting, employer and graduate school information.
  • College Archives: The College Archives is located in Room L-305 of the Lefavour Building. The holdings include: official College records and publications, manuscript collections, books, photographs, theses, and other materials which relate to the history and development of Simmons College and its role in the history of professional education for women. Students/researchers welcome by appointment.
  • Education: The collections for the Simmons Education Department support learning, teaching, and research for the undergraduate and graduate programs in General Education, Teaching English as a Second Language, and Special Education. The collections also support graduate programs in Urban Elementary Education, and Education Leadership. The collections contain materials devoted to supporting both professional and subject competency, including a separate Curriculum Collection with resources designed to aid in curriculum development.
  • Health Studies: The collections for the Simmons School for Health Sciences (SHS) support learning, teaching, and research for the programs in Health Care Administration, Nursing, Nutrition, and Physical Therapy. The collections include materials devoted to topics in research methods and clinical practice, in addition to standard professional reference sources.
  • Library & Information Science: The highly specialized collection for the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) contains both historic and current material on book publishing, library management and information services.
  • Management: The Simmons SOM Collection is a special collection, contained at the Beatley Library, of information and resources supporting the SOM's unique MBA curriculum and the educational mission of the school. The collection provides electronic and print resources on all aspects of management, including an in-depth collection on women and management.
  • Social Work: The collections for the Simmons School of Social Work (SSW) serves to support the curriculum taught by the faculty of the School of Social Work. The collections contain materials dealing with subjects such as: social policy, social action, psychology and human development, mental health issues, domestic violence, theories of and the practical application of counseling and therapies, children and family issues, GLBT issues, poverty, racism and oppression, behavioral health, and social science research. The College Archives also house historic materials related to the development of social work in Boston, and the formation of the School of Social Work at Simmons.

 

Simmons College is a member of the Fenway Library Consortium (FLC): a cooperating group of sixteen libraries in the Boston Area. The Consortium is open to faculty, staff and students of its member institutions. Ten of the FLC libraries share a common online catalog, FLO . You can use FLO to search for books across all ten of the participating libraries' collections.

Circulating materials may be borrowed from FLC library with a Fenway Card - your Simmons ID. Borrowers are responsible for returning items according to the policies of the individual library.

Contact the individual library for hours of operation and additional information.

Page updated: April 30, 2009

 

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