While you’re getting a much-needed break from classes, we’ll still be here keeping the library open our regular daily hours of 7 AM to 11 PM. And if you’re not able to come in, we can still answer your questions and help you with your research from our suite of online “Ask a Librarian” services:
Chat online with a librarian (no bots here!) 24 hours a day
Email us your question (replies sent same or next day)
Like the rest of the college, the library will be closed on Monday, February 17, in honor of Presidents Day.
Our online chat service, available on the library home page in the Ask a Librarian box, will be open all day (it is in fact open 24/7 every day of the year).
Image: Currier & Ives portrait of Washington and Lincoln. Currier & Ives, New York, n. d. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/scsm000405/.
The library is closed today in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. We will reopen for our usual spring semester hours tomorrow at 7 AM. If you need assistance from a librarian today, please use the chat service in the Ask a Librarian box on the library home page; this service is available 24 hours a day.
Image: Gardner, Alexander, photographer. Abraham Lincoln. [Washington, D.C., 9 August] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2015645458/.
We are excited to have everyone back after a quiet month between semesters. We will be open our usual hours seven days a week: 7 AM to 11 PM. Each of the service desks in the library has shorter hours than the actual library hours (details on the Hours page of the library website).
There are number of new things to announce:
A fully opened 4th floor! Both sides of the floor are now available for use, adding 102 open seats and 10 group study rooms that can be booked in advance.
New study cubicles on the 4th floor. On the west side of the floor, near the plaza are two rows of cozy cubicles for individual use. They feature lots of desk space and power outlets.
Redesigned signage detailing the noise policies for each floor.
Revamped docking stations on the 2nd floor. Located across from the reference desk, these docking stations now have seating and let you connect your laptop or iPad to a large external monitor.
If you’re new to Baruch, we’ve got pages details all the many services and resources you’ll want to know about:
Yes, the library is open! During the winter session (through January 23), the library is open from 9 AM to 10 PM seven days a week (except on January 20 when we’ll be closed for the holiday). As noted on the hours page on the library website, each of the service desks in the library have their own hours:
Circulation Desk: 9 AM – 5 PM (Mon-Fri), closed Saturday-Sunday
Tech Loan Desk: closed (all tech items loaned from the Circulation Desk instead)
Reference Desk: 10 AM – 5 PM (Mon-Fri), closed Saturday-Sunday
On Friday, January 24, the library will be essentially closed. Students who have materials checked out that they want to return can do so at the Circulation Desk between 9 AM and 5 PM that day but there are no other services available in the library (no use of computers, printers, scanners, study tables, or checking out items). Faculty, though, can enter the library and use our services as they prepare for the spring semester.
Speaking of spring, we’ll re-open fully on Saturday, January 25, and will have our usual hours of 7 AM to 11 PM seven days a week.
After the last day of the fall semester, the library hours and services will significantly change for the brief period before the January session begins. We will mostly be closed, and when we are open, will offer very limited services. We will only be open on the following days from 9 AM to 5 PM.
December 23 (Monday) December 26-27 (Thursday-Friday) December 30 (Monday)
On those days, services to students will be limited to dropping off items that have been borrowed and to clearing accounts (blocks, fines, etc.) No other on-site library services will be available to students (printing, borrowing, studying, using computers). The online Ask a Librarian service, though, where you can chat live with a librarian 24 hours a day, will continue to be available.
Baruch College faculty may borrow materials and use the library as needed during the selected hours detailed above.
On January 2, the library will reopen for the January intersession period. We’ll be open to all from 9 AM to 10 PM from Monday to Friday and from 9 AM to 5 PM on Saturdays and Sundays. Up-to-date and detailed library hours can always be found on the library home page and the Hours page of the library website.
The library will be closed Thursday, November 28, to Sunday, December 1. We will reopen our regular hours on Monday, December 2. Enjoy the break from classes!
Even though there are no classes this Friday and Saturday (October 11-12), the library will be open its regular hours (7am-11pm). We are, though, closed on Monday, October 14 for Indigenous Persons Day.
Although there are no classes the library remains open. For a complete schedule of library hours and the days we are actually closed, please visit the Hours page on the library website.
During the brief period between the end of the summer session and the start of the fall semester, the library is operating under “restricted services.” This means that the library is closed to all students except if those students are returning items that they have borrowed or they are taking care of fines. For this limited service, the circulation desk is open from 9 am – 5 pm on weekdays only. There are no other on-campus library services offered during this period (studying, printing, borrowing materials, etc.)
Baruch College faculty who need to borrow items or use our spaces can do so from 9 am – 5 pm during weekdays during this period.
