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The libraries at Vassar serve as a central hub for the intellectual life of the campus. With over 1,000,000 volumes and vast online offerings, the libraries fuse rich collections with expert help and inspiring spaces.

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Vassar College Libraries @vassarlibraries.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New VCL blog post: “Opening the museum: A Collaboration Across the Chinese and Japanese Department, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and Vassar College Libraries.” library.vassar.edu/blog/Opening...
Person standing on a cliff next to a tree watching a fleet of sailboats on the water and the sun rising.  Adachi Ginkō (Japanese, 1853–1902), “Number 6: Lady Sayo, Grieving her Husband’s Departure, Weeps Until she Dies,” 1885, woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, class of 1937, 1991.35.6
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Vassar College Libraries @vassarlibraries.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
While April was #NationalPoetryMonth, it's May and it's time to celebrate all submissions to our student-authored #haiku contest -- and announce our contest winners and honorable mentions! Thanks to those who participated, and to our judges!
National Poetry Month 30th Anniversary. Haiku Contest winners, honorable mention, and entries. Vassar College Libraries.Winner! Title: The Attention Economy. Haiku: Lecture on "human (new line) fracking." But focusing still (new line) On brown hens in the rain. Author Luke Jenkins Class of 2026Winner! Title: Ocean Revival. Haiku: left out in the heat (new line) my body dried up--but there! (new line) my soul in the waves. Author Sophia Seidel Class of 2028Honorable Mention! Title: Afternoon. Haiku: Tall, blueing grass; He (new line) can almost believe (new line) you aren't dozing off. Author Luke Jenkins Class of 2026
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Vassar College Libraries @vassarlibraries.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Reminder! Take part in our student-authored haiku context now through April 30th -- submit your haiku here: forms.gle/AmbAjPv6kZtG... --> Prizes to 2 winners!
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Vassar College Libraries @vassarlibraries.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May Day! We hope this unofficial mark of the beginning of summer brings you sunshine and moments of joy as we see in this 1936 May pole scene from our Digital Library. digitallibrary.vassar.edu Class of 1936 students doing a May Pole dance. Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection (05-11-1936).
Gray scale glass plate negative of women from the class of 1936 in light colored ankle length dresses intertwining colorful ribbons around a May pole in a field of grass.
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Vassar College Libraries @vassarlibraries.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Seniors! Please consider submitting your senior thesis/capstones/projects to Vassar Scholarship. For more details go to digitallibrary.vassar.edu/institutiona... and for help visit digitallibrary.vassar.edu/get-help
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Vassar College Libraries @vassarlibraries.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Featuring Faculty - Please join us March 27th 3-4PM EST, in-person, as Education Professor Christopher Bjork and Sociology Professor William Hoynes present compelling first-person stories from their new book, More Than Just a Game. libcal.vassar.edu/event/143097...
More Than Just a Game book cover
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Vassar College Libraries @vassarlibraries.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Spring Exhibitions! Victorian Yellowbacks from the Collection of Marcia McGhee Carter ’62 & Cut Me Up Transitions: Artworks Transformed library.vassar.edu/blog/Librari...
Cut Me Up Transitions: Artworks Transformed PosterCovers and spine of 1867 edition of Anthony Trollope’s novel Castle Richmond.
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