Library Partners
The Gordon Library is pleased to partner with several university offices in the Library building. These include IT Services, whose support is available through the IT Service Desk near the entrance of the main floor; Academic Technology Center (ATC), located in Room 303 on the upper (third) floor); the Class of ‘70 Café, providing food and vending services near the entrance of the main floor; the Department of Humanities and Arts, whose faculty manage the Art Studio Classroom on the main level; and the Division of Talent & Inclusion, whose staff manage access to the Library’s nursing (mother’s) room on the main floor.
The library works closely with many other university partners:
The library hosts an annual Sustainability Project Showcase in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability; collaborates to offer diversity and inclusion resources to the students and staff of the university with the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education (ODIME); and works closely with the Research Solutions Institute and the Morgan Teaching & Learning Center. We benefit greatly from support from the Facilities Office in ongoing care for our building and in planning major and minor improvements to the library as a learning environment.
Beyond the WPI campus, Gordon Library is proud to partner with regional and national networks of library and information organizations, among them:
- Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- LOEX
- LYRASIS
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
- Northeast Regional Libraries Consortium (NERL)
- National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
- Worcester Academic Research Collaborative (ARC)
These external partnerships provide the WPI community with:
- Improved discoverability of WPI student research
- Collectively negotiated licensing terms for information resources
- National education and advocacy for equitable scholarly communications
- Direct borrowing rights to the print collections of other Worcester academic libraries
- Guaranteed long-term access to print monographs and serials in shared print repositories