The library building at 1720 Locust St. is open to all current Curtis students, faculty, and staff, and a Curtis ID card is required to enter. Visitors may access the building if accompanied by a current Curtis student, faculty member, or staff member. All other visitors must make prior arrangements to visit the library by contacting library@curtis.edu. Unaccompanied visitors must check in with Curtis security at 1726 Locust St.
Limited food and drinks are allowed in all areas of the library except the A/V-Archives area on the second floor.Your food should be snack-sized and portable (sandwiches, fruit, chips, energy bars, etc.) rather than full meals. If you are eating lunch, please remain in the first-floor lounge or the second-floor seminar room.
Please keep your food and drinks in their containers or wrappers as much as possible and use the the garbage cans to dispose of waste. Drinks must be kept in closed containers such as plastic bottles, closed coffee mugs, or cups with lids. Canned drinks without lids and cups without lids are not permitted and should be left at the circulation desk while you’re in the library.
Please be considerate of others by not bringing in pungent-smelling food, since strong odors will spread throughout the floor and building.
The library staff reserves the right to determine whether food brought in is acceptable, and may ask you to eat it elsewhere before returning to the library.
The Rock Resource Center has an elevator and accessible restrooms for patron use. For patrons with mobility issues, please contact us at library@curtis.edu or 215-893-5265 and we will gladly arrange to make our collections accessible to you.
The second floor seminar room is appropriate for library instruction and small classes. Please contact the library if you’d like to reserve the room for one-time or semester-long use.
The library has a number of desktop computers for patron use, as well as three Chromebooks to check out on a short-term basis. We also offer portable media disc drives, headphones, thumb drives, and other tech for student use. Ask a librarian for help.
The first-floor lounge offers free scanning and printing. The printer is networked to both the scanning station and the lounge computer. The scanning station, featuring a flat-bed scanner, is large enough for most music scores and books. Options are available for scan-to-email, scan-to-USB drive, scan-to-print (photocopying), and scan-to-network drive. Please ask a librarian if you have any questions about using the equipment. The printer can also scan documents 8.5 x 11" or smaller.
Located on the first floor, the Charles Sterne III Reading Room (or “library lounge”) is an area for library visitors to socialize, relax, and study. The lounge features long tables for working, soft seating, and free coffee and tea along with a public scanning/printing station. Read more about Chuck Sterne on the Curtis news feed: https://www.curtis.edu/news/curtis-mourns-charles-sterne-iii/
The listening room is located on the third floor and contains a large screen TV, component stereo system, video players, and speakers. Patrons can use the media room to view/listen to CDs, LPs, cassettes, DVDs, video tapes, DVDs, and Bluetooth audio. Instructions are provided in the room. Ask a librarian if you are unfamiliar with any of these media formats and would like assistance.