Libraries and museums Tufts University

ginn library @ fletcher school

completed in 1908, tufts first library building, eaton memorial library (now eaton hall), made possible donation andrew carnegie. carnegie s wife requested building named after tufts graduate, reverend charles eaton, had presided on wedding. building received extension in 1950 construction of war memorial library in honor of tufts alumni served in world war ii. 1965 collection outgrew building , moved new library named wessell library. additionally demand more square footage prompted expansion of wessell. in 1995, addition of 80,000 more square feet, library renamed tisch library.

today tufts university library system contains on 3 million volumes. main library, tisch library, holds 2.7 million volumes, other holdings dispersed @ subject libraries including hirsh health sciences library on boston campus, edwin ginn library @ fletcher school, , webster family library @ cummings school of veterinary medicine on grafton campus. students have access academic libraries of institutions in boston consortium. tufts member of shares, allows students have library access in participating members such brown, columbia, cornell, caltech, dartmouth, johns hopkins, northwestern, princeton, stanford, upenn , yale. furthermore, students may apply privileges harvard s library system. tufts runs perseus project, digital library project assembles digital collections of humanities resources.

in addition barnum museum of natural history, tufts had established permanent art collection includes wide range of art antiquity present. collection comprises 2,000 works ancient mediterranean , pre-hispanic cultures modern , contemporary painting, sculpture, , photography. notable highlights in permanent collection include works john singer sargent, albrecht dürer, isamu noguchi, auguste rodin, andy warhol, milton resnick, salvador dali, , pablo picasso among others. exhibitions of collection rotate annually in aidekman arts center.