Dietel Library and Archives

Our first floor is set up for collaboration with a variety of seating options. It is not unusual to see classes working in groups at our tables, students studying together at our whiteboards, or cozying up with a good book next to our fireplace. Our second floor houses our extensive print collection and offers a quiet study environment. In the basement, you will find both our makerspace as well as our archives. You can read more about these unique and distinct spaces below. 

Dietel Library goes beyond the walls of our physical space. We offer a wide array of databases to support our students and faculty in their research endeavors, ebooks and audiobooks so that we can enjoy stories in many different formats, and streaming services to help bring the world into the classroom. 

The Archives collects, describes, preserves, and makes available the non-current, official records of Emma Willard School.

Records include course catalogs, yearbooks, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, audio and visual recordings and ephemera about  the school, and publications of Madame Emma Hart Willard dating from 1817. 

The Archives is pleased to accept donations of items relating to the establishment, development, growth, and activities of Emma Willard School. Please contact Assistant Director of Research and Archives Stephanie Ross when contemplating such a donation.

Requests for information may be directed to Stephanie Ross. The Archive is open for research to outside researchers by appointment.

Learn more about our history

From 3D printers to googly eyes, the maker space has tools, equipment, and materials to foster creativity and innovation.

Emma students complete projects in many of their classes and come to the maker space to implement them. Outside of class, you might find someone building a prop for a play, fabricating a part for their Signature project, prototyping an invention for the Entrepreneurship Club, repairing a robotic vehicle, creating holiday decorations, or sewing a garment. If you can dream it up, the maker space is there to help you realize your vision.

The Melligeri Innovative Classroom was built through the generosity of Aravind and Mai Melligeri P'17 in honor of their daughter Megha's senior year.

The school and the Melligeri family envisioned a globally connected teaching space, equipped to support true 21st century learning. With warm and inviting colors, writable surfaces on various walls, flexible furnishings, surround sound, large projection and touch screen capabilities, pre-set for videoconferencing, the Melligeri Innovative Classroom invites the outside world into the Dietel Library with the click of a button.

The Snell Music Wing, Dietel Library, and Maguire Arts Wing are joined together by a common foyer area, Dietel Gallery, which displays artwork from both current students and visiting artists.