Friends of the Library

Rare Book Room Exhibition  |  Preservation Program   

Endowed Funds  |  Library Publications

Membership in the Friends of the Library provides our Friends with many benefits listed that include our Friends in the life of the library and the college. The library benefits from your contribution by using annual membership funds and endowment income to employ undergraduate and graduate internships in Special Collections, purchase new materials to build our collections, conserve sensitive bindings and fragile books and provide better services to the students and faculty using the Bryn Mawr Library today!

For more information about becoming a member, please give us a call at 610.526.6576 or email us today!

Mariam Coffin Canaday Library

Rare Book Room Exhibition for Fall 2007

Breaking Ground, Breaking Tradition: Bryn Mawr and the First Generations of Women Archaeologists
September 25, 2007- December 21, 2007

Open 9:00 - 4:30 Monday - Friday; 1-5 on weekends except for holidays and academic break weekends.

For additional information, please call the Special Collections Department at 610-526-6576

For more information on exhibitions, past and present please see our exhibitions page.

Bryn Mawr has one of the great liberal arts college libraries in the country, with more than a million volumes and nationally significant collections on the history of women, classical antiquity, the early development of printing, and many other fields. Unfortunately, time and handling have taken their toll on many of these books, resulting in broken bindings and damaged pages that put their long-term survival at risk. The Library has embarked on a program of preserving and restoring its most important at-risk books to ensure that they will survive for the next generations of Bryn Mawr's students and faculty.

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The generous support of donor endowed funds helps the libraries support the research and teaching mission of the College. The endowed funds pages list the fund names, the areas of collection support, some historical information on each fund, as well as bookplate images, as available. For reported funds, you may view a cumulative list of individual titles purchased, beginning with fiscal year 2003, by clicking on the fund's name.