Academic Resources

Academic Resource Center

The Academic Resource Center (ARC) offers peer tutoring services and assistance in writing and study skills. The ARC is available for help with current projects and for long-term skill development.

The ARC staff and trained assistants are available at designated hours, weekdays and evenings. Sweet Briar students regularly use the ARC for tutoring, help in writing papers, effective testing strategies and reading and study skills.

Art Galleries

Rotating art exhibitions are research-, studio-, and community-based and are presented in one of three galleries: Babcock, Benedict and Pannell. The latter houses the Sweet Briar Collection and larger touring exhibitions.

Library

The Mary Helen Cochran Library is the cornerstone of the College's library services. The Junius P. Fishburn Music library, located in the Mary Reynolds Babcock Fine Arts building, houses music materials. The Martin C. Shallenberger library in the Anne Gary Pannell building holds the Fanny B. Fletcher College Archives, the Fergus Reid Rare Book collections and the College's book arts collection. Older journals, microform resources and government resources are housed in the Wick Closed Stack facility. Together with Cochran, these resources provide students with one of the finest private college libraries in Virginia. The collections include more than 250,000 volumes, 400,000 microforms, subscriptions to more than 1,000 current periodical titles and 8,000 audiovisual materials. The library system also provides the College community with access to an enormous range of electronic databases and full text resources through the library Web site.

Sweet Briar Museum

Located in the Boxwood Alumnae House, the Sweet Briar Museum contains an excellent teaching collection of 18^TH-, 19^TH-, and 20^TH-century American decorative arts, including artifacts of the College's founders and memorabilia from throughout the College's history.

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), the only artists' retreat in the nation with direct ties to a college or university, is located adjacent to the Sweet Briar campus. Writers, visual artists and composers working at the VCCA come to the College to teach in its interdisciplinary Bachelor of Fine Arts program and to take part in campus life.