The official Facebook page of the Waidner-Spahr Library at Dickinson College, located in Carlisle, PA.
The Waidner-Spahr Library is named for Boyd Lee Spahr, class of 1900, and Robert A. Waidner, class of 1932. Besides being alumni of Dickinson College, both men served on the Board of Trustees for a combined 110+ years of service. The Spahr Library opened in 1967, and the Waidner addition was completed in 1998.
The Waidner-Spahr Library catalog provides access to over 1 million titles, including books, e-books, music, and video recordings. Our Journal Locator provides access to over 76,000 periodicals. In addition to these collections, the library is also home to several computer labs, classrooms, and individual study rooms.
The Waidner-Spahr Library supports Dickinson College in its mission to prepare young people, by means of a useful education in liberal arts and sciences, for engaged lives of citizenship and leadership in the service of society. Our commitment is to support the Dickinson College community in teaching, learning, scholarship, and service activities by facilitating access to information in all formats, by maintaining a physical and digital library environment that enhances research, study and community, and by nurturing in library users the critical approaches to information necessary for academic success, professional accomplishment, and lifelong learning. We recognize and value the role of the library as the place where the disciplines meet.
