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Our Collections

Main Stacks: We have over 36,000 print books organized using the LOC classification system. Search for these items through our online catalog, OwlCat.

Databases: Access millions of articles, eBooks, and more through our database subscriptions and recommendations.

Special Collections: These include rare, fragile, and otherwise unique materials, like artists' books, zines, rare books, and institutional archives. They are housed in a closed space separate from our circulating collections. (Viewable by appointment only)

Media Collection: We offer physical, circulating DVDs in our Stacks, as well as streaming video available online through our databases.

Materials Collection: These items circulate and are located near the Circulation Desk.

Print Periodicals: We have active subscriptions to over 90 print journals and magazines. These items circulate and are available to browse in the center of the library. We also maintain bound periodicals dating back to the 1940s. Older issues and bound periodicals are held in storage and can be viewed upon request.

Image Collections: Images can be accessed via the OtisDID (Digital Image Database; an art history image bank to support teaching).

Games & Puzzles: These are available to check out or use within the library.

Magazine Holdings List

Mission & Goals

The Library is a nexus for information and imagination.

Information Literacy ILO:

• Otis College graduates will be able to assemble, evaluate, and ethically use information from diverse sources to accomplish a specific purpose.

Our Goals:

• To provide a learning environment designed to inspire creative students and faculty at Otis College of Art and Design.
• To provide collections of traditional library materials as well as emerging digital resources which foster creativity, critical thinking, and diversity of thought, with an emphasis on supporting the Otis curriculum
• To provide anytime/anywhere access to library databases and information resources
• To empower students and faculty in their ability to locate, evaluate, and ethically use print and electronic resources
• To collaborate with the faculty to design information literacy instruction that supports critical thinking
• To support the faculty in learning and using appropriate instructional technologies
• To promote this library and other libraries as a source of inspiration for creative work, intellectual pursuits, recreation, and independent lifelong learning
• To play an active role in supporting more effective organization and presentation of information for the diverse audiences of the College
• To actively contribute to the intellectual life of the College