The Watkinson Library at Trinity College collects, preserves, and makes accessible unique and rare materials in selected subject areas, and promotes the use of these materials by the Trinity community, scholars, and the public. Its goal is to advance scholarship and further the educational, research, and service missions of Trinity College. The Watkinson Library serves as a public research library, the rare book and special collections of Trinity College, and the repository of the College archives. Our vision is to create a welcoming space for all to encounter and interact with the cultural materials we hold, and to facilitate creative and intellectual production based on or inspired by our collections. The Watkinson is located on Level A of the Raether Library and Information Technology Center.
A Public Humanities Collaborative research project this summer turned two Trinity College students into detectives of history, as they worked to tell the stories of inmates at the country’s first state prison and to investigate the roots of mass incarceration.
Trinity College recently hosted a delegation of government and university officials from Germany as part of a celebration recognizing 30 years of the Baden-Württemberg–Connecticut Partnership.
Trinity’s Library and Information Technology Services (LITS) recently hosted its annual Day of Digital Scholarship, designed to celebrate the use of technology in research and teaching projects created by faculty, staff, and students.
As part of Women at the Summit, the ongoing commemoration of the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Trinity College, this initiative honors 50 women who will have a lasting impact on Trinity’s next 50 years. The honorees will be celebrated during the spring of 2020, the culminating semester of Women at the Summit.
