Katharine Brush Library

Welcome

The Katharine Brush Library’s mission is to provide comprehensive, patron-centered services, facilities and collections in a comfortable, inclusive environment. By supporting the community’s research needs and teaching a comprehensive, patron-centered information literacy curriculum, library faculty and staff advance the School’s mission to prepare students for higher education and lifelong learning. Through its emphasis on cultivating critical thinking skills and a life of intellectual inquiry, the Library upholds The Loomis Chaffee School’s charge to inspire in students “a commitment to the best self and the common good.”

The library provides access to:

32,000 books
185,000 ebooks
30,000 periodicals and scholarly journals
1,500 academic and popular DVDs
3 major print newspapers, with access to over 1,600 online
50+ subscription databases
15 Library iPads

Discovery Search

Search here for books, articles & more:

Ebsco Discovery Service (EDS) searches a majority of the Brush Library resources and databases, including PeliCAT, simultaneously in a single interface, and displays results in one unified list. Users have the ability to limit their search to books, eBooks, academic journals, and other resource types.

PeliCAT

Search the online library catalog PeliCAT

PeliCAT is the online catalog of the Katharine Brush Library. Patrons can search PeliCAT by keyword, title, author, subject, location, and call number. Books, eBooks, and DVDs are searchable in PeliCAT. In addition, patrons can log into their account to view checkouts, renew items, and place holds. See library staff to set your password.

Interlibrary Loan—The Loomis community has the ability to request items via interlibrary loan from other libraries. Patrons can search other library holdings through WorldCat. Please fill out the corresponding form for your request: