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Saratoga Springs,
New York, 12866
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Academic
and Cocurricular Facilities
Academic
Facilities
Scribner
Library
Lucy Scribner Library brings together
both traditional library spaces and the infrastructure to support
increasingly sophisticated technology. The 75,000-square-foot
building contains more than 800 seats in spaces designed to
take advantage of natural light, twenty-two individual study
rooms, and eighteen group-study rooms. There are more than 130
computers distributed throughout the library and in a large
cluster on the first floor. Students can also bring in laptops
and connect to the campus network at carrels and study rooms
located on each floor.
Named for Lucy Skidmore Scribner, the college's founder, Scribner
Library houses nearly 400,000 volumes and 1,500 journals and
periodicals, augmented by electronic access to online digital
collections. In addition, the library houses the Skidmore College
archives, collections of rare books, sound recordings, videotapes,
and art reproductions and slides. Scribner Library is a United
States and New York State government-documents depository.
Both teaching and library faculty teach in the Schaffer Bibliographic
Instruction Room, an electronic classroom equipped to allow
students to learn research methods incorporating both print
and online sources.
The visual resources area on the second floor is devoted to
the library's extensive art book and visual resources collections,
including more than 100,000 slides and digital images. One wall
is devoted to the display and study of art reproductions. An
arts librarian is available to assist with questions regarding
art, music, film, theater, and dance. The offices of the Art
History Program faculty are also located on the second floor.
On the third floor, students will find the Pohndorff Room, which
serves as the reading room for special collections and as a
reception room for lectures and readings.
Dana
Science Center
Charles A. Dana Science Center houses the Departments of Biology,
Chemistry and Physics, and Geosciences. The facility offers
classrooms, teaching labs, individual research labs and preparation
rooms, and plant and animal tissue culture, microbiological,
radiation biology, and radiation chemistry units.
Equipment available for student use includes a JEOL 1010 transmission
electron microscope, Reichert Ultracut ultramicrotomes, Balzer's
freeze jet, Olympus BX-60 light microscope, LKB ultracentrifuge,
high-pressure liquid chromatography equipment, and specialty
equipment for PCR and DNA sequencing. Also available are a 200
MHz high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR),
gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS), computer interfaced
x-ray fluorescence spectrometer, Fourier transform infrared
spectrometer (FTIR), inductively coupled plasma spectrometer
(ICP), and PC-based multi-channel analyzer with nuclear spectroscopy
equipment.
On the top floor of the building are a greenhouse, a plant-cell
culture lab, and an ornithology lab.
To keep pace with the growing demand for study in the sciences,
Skidmore built a 30,000-square-foot addition to the science
center in 1996. The new wing connects Dana to nearby Harder
Hall and significantly increases lab and teaching space in the
sciences. The addition's glass-fronted three-story atrium provides
lounge areas for students and faculty on each floor.
Bolton
Hall
Bolton Hall, a classroom building honoring Skidmore professors
Joseph and Dorothy Bolton, houses eleven classrooms and the
Foreign Language Resource Center, which offers a variety of
audiovisual and electronic resources to students and faculty
of foreign languages.
Palamountain
Hall
Named in honor of Skidmore's fourth president, Joseph C. Palamountain
Jr., this building features three lecture halls, the largest
of which, Gannett Auditorium, seats 300. Located in the center
of the building, the lecture halls are ringed by smaller, hexagonally
shaped classrooms that reflect the building contours and accommodate
thirty-five students each in a seminar-like atmosphere. The
Departments of English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Management
and Business, and Education are located here. Palamountain Hall
also houses the Skidmore Early Childhood Center. Administrative
offices are on the fourth floor.
Saisselin
Art Building
Saisselin Art Building links the academic buildings on campus
with those of the fine and performing arts. Constructed on three
levels, Saisselin houses painting and drawing studios on its
third level, all with skylights to allow natural light into
the studios. On the second floor are the photographic studios
and the jewelry and metalsmithing studio. On the first level
are studios for sculpture, ceramics, weaving, textile design,
serigraphy, printmaking, graphic design, and computer imaging.
Schick Art Gallery is located at the main entrance to the building.
In addition to special and faculty exhibits, art students hold
an annual exhibition of their works as do Summer SIX students.
Tang
Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
Opened in fall 2000 and named in honor of Frances Young Tang
’61, the 39,000-square-foot museum-gallery is designed
to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication between all areas
of study through the visual arts. The experimental nature of
the Tang's programming integrates multiple media and disciplines
to explore common themes.
The building houses a 150-seat interdisciplinary space; classrooms
for lectures, receptions, events, and film screenings; flexible
galleries accommodating several temporary exhibitions at the
same time; a museum shop; and storage for Skidmore's permanent
collection.
Bernhard
Theater
Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater includes a main auditorium seating
345 people, two rehearsal rooms, a design studio, a large studio
theater, a scene shop, paint shop, construction and repair shop,
and all other facilities appropriate to a modern college theater
program.
Filene Music Building
A center for musical activities during the academic year, the
Therese W. Filene Music Building hosts groups of young performing
artists during the summer season.
A distinctive feature of Filene is a fan-shaped lecture-recital
hall seating approximately 240 people. The building also houses
faculty offices and studios, classrooms, a music library, practice
and listening rooms, and an electronic studio.
Tisch
Learning Center
Tisch Learning Center provides space for classes, faculty,
and programs. The building houses six seminar rooms; ten classrooms;
laboratories for psychology and anthropology; the Departments
of Psychology, History, American Studies, Sociology, Anthropology,
and Social Work; and thirty-four faculty and departmental
offices.
Ladd
Hall
Three-story Ladd Alumni Hall, which adjoins Case Center, contains
faculty offices, classrooms, and an auditorium for lectures
and film showings. The offices of Skidmore's University Without
Walls and Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program are located
on the first floor of Ladd. It also houses the Departments of
Classics, Government, and Philosophy and Religion.
Harder
Hall
F. William Harder Hall contains classrooms, faculty offices,
the departments of Economics and Mathematics and Computer Science,
and the Center for Information Technology Services.
