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Magill Library houses more than half a million volumes and provides access to 2.5 million more through a catalog system that connects it to libraries at neighboring Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges.

For the fifth year in a row, four Haverford students are living in Dalun, Ghana, a community in the country’s Northern Region, as part of the Lagim Tehi Tuma Fellowship, which is co-sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and Bryn Mawr’s Leadership, Innovation, and Liberal Arts Center.

The innovative summer program doubled its participation and created course tracks in medical ethics and business ethics.

With funding from the  Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, anthropology major Vanessa Quiroz Morales ’19 is interning at Sweet & Paciorek LLC, a firm that provides immigration-related legal resources in the greater Philadelphia area.

Haverford has more than 145 student clubs and organizations, like Nerd House's Dungeons & Dragons Club. 

 “Dungeons and Dragons is escapism at its finest. All you really need are some friends, dice, a pencil, and paper.” - Oliver Maupin ’18

Opening this fall, VCAM will be dedicated on October 28 as part of the weekend celebrating Haverford Lives That Speak.

The KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest is an annual competition for student-submitted images from experiments or simulations that are scientifically intriguing as well as aesthetically pleasing. Judging is based on both the quality of the image and the explanation of the underlying science.

Magill Library

Magill Library will be totally transformed by a renovation and revitalization that is scheduled to begin in January 2018. The building will be renamed Lutnick Library (for Howard Lutnick '83, who gave a $25 million gift to help fund the project), and its new incarnation will include enhanced technology, open and flexible spaces, renovated book stacks, increased accessibility for special collections, and a café. Heritage spaces, including the Magill Wing and its historic façade on Founders Green, will be preserved. 

Missed yesterday’s photo? See Magill Library back “Then“.

Magill Library

Long before it was renamed and expanded, Magill Library got its start as Alumni Hall. Originally proposed by the Haverford College Alumni Association as a place to hold meetings, the building took on a dual purpose when the Board of Managers suggested that a portion of the hall be used to accommodate the College’s library, which was then bursting out of a second story room in Founders Hall.

Come back tomorrow to see Magill Library at Haverford “Now”.

“I never understood what a 'life-changing' experience was until I went to Rome. I walked in with eyes half-lidded and walked out with a new respect for the beauty of the world and its infinite complexities.” – Zakery Oglesby '17

Each year more than 130 Haverford students take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad.