Rose Library

Library Hours of Operation:

Fall and Spring Semesters:
Sunday 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Monday & Wednesday 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Monday - Thursday from 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Rose Library Phone Number: 508.421.3761.

Library Collections

The Rose Library in Cohen-Lasry House holds the Bartley Collection as well as other books relating to the Holocaust and genocide studies. In 1999, Diana Bartley, a New York financial consultant, journalist, and book collector, donated her 1800-volume collection to the Center. She continues to add to this collection on a yearly basis. Many other supporters of the Center have donated books to the Rose Library, and there are increasing numbers of books relating to genocide in the twentieth century and the Armenian genocide.

The Bartley Collection contains approximately 5,000 books and materials on the Holocaust, many dating from 1933 to 1947. It was assembled over a ten-year period and continues to grow with acquisitions including registers of Jewish survivors of World War II, German foreign policy documents, Allied military plans, artwork illustrating anti-Semitism, and photographs taken during the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The Collection covers Holocaust history, sociology, photography, memoirs, fiction, poetry, plays, psychology, and religion.

Phone: (508) 793-8897 E-mail: chgs@clarku.edu