Library and Archive Information

The Forbes Mellon Library

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The Forbes Mellon Library is in Memorial Court, immediately opposite Cambridge University Library. It was completed in 1986 when it replaced a smaller library in Old Court and is named after two of its main benefactors, Mansfield Forbes and Paul Mellon. The Forbes Mellon provides a quiet and harmonious working environment for students within a building of considerable architectural interest.

The library forms part of a complex which also houses a student common-room, a recital room and three music practice-rooms. The comprehensive computer facilities within the library include networked PCs, iMacs and printers while students reading Law have their own Reading Room in Ashby Court, with additional terminals and a printer. All the systems in use in the main library and in the Lipstein Law Reading Room - catalogues, circulation, management - are fully automated.

The Forbes Mellon is open to all students and staff currently in residence at Clare and its modern and up-to-date stock covers all the recommended reading for undergraduate courses offered by the college, together with a considerable number of postgraduate texts and other material (CDs, CD-Roms, cassettes, European newspapers etc.). Every effort is made to fulfil requests for purchase and considerable attention is given to student suggestions. The library has a large reference section and files of information on all matters affecting students are regularly updated. A wide range of equipment is available for student use, including a photocopier, headphones (to enable students to access interactive teaching materials) and skeletons for hire to medical students.

The library staff works closely with the Union of Clare Students Library representative and the college Library Committee includes representatives from both the MCR and the JCR.

Forbes Mellon LIbrary
Clare College
Memorial Court
Queen's Road Cambridge CB3 9AJ

Telephone: 01223- 333202
Fax: 01223- 357664
E-mail: library@clare.cam.ac.uk

The Fellows' Library

The College, the second oldest in Cambridge, possesses a library of approximately 6000 volumes including some manuscripts and incunabula. Its early printed holdings are noted in H.M.Adams Catalogue of books and the Short-title catalogue. In 1971 the College received a bequest of bird books from the Reverend F.I.Wane. These have been deposited as a named collection in the Cambridge University Library.

Applications to see any book or manuscript in the Fellows' Library should be made to:

Dr Hubertus Jahn
Clare College
Trinity Lane
Cambridge
CB2 1TL

E-mail: hfj21@cam.ac.uk
Telephone: 01223-333253