Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College

10/09/2026

Denison Library’s current exhibition, “100 Years of ManuSCRIPPS: Alumnae Books,” 📚 showcases a selection of the many titles written by Scripps alumnae from our earliest Class of 1931 to today’s more recent graduates.

Numerous shelves in Denison Library’s archival storage rooms are filled with books written by Scripps College alumnae, highlighting an extensive range of scholarly and creative work from multiple decades. Our humanistic Scripps education has encouraged a century’s worth of students to hone critical thinking skills and view knowledge with an interdisciplinary lens to deeply inquire and understand our world’s complexities and nuances. This exhibition highlights a few of the many titles written by Scripps alumnae from our earliest Class of 1931 cohort to today’s more recent graduates.💚✨

06/03/2026

🌞 Denison Library Summer Hours Announcement 🌞

Planning to visit Denison Library this summer? We’d love to help! If you’d like to access the library’s collections, please email us at [email protected] or give us a call to schedule an appointment.

We look forward to seeing you, and wish you a wonderful summer! 📚✨

04/15/2026

Join Peter and Donna Thomas this Friday from 2:45-3:30 PM in the Holbein Room.

04/07/2026

Established in 1936, the Slocum Award for best personal library collection is a special chance for Scripps seniors to show off their books. Visit the exhibits at the end of each Spring semester! This year’s cohort marks the 90th anniversary of the award. To celebrate their achievements, participants visited The Huntington for brunch and a tour.

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03/13/2026

Centennial Time Capsule 3: Meet Gordon Kaufmann, the English Architect who designed Scripps College.

03/06/2026

Centennial Time Capsule 2: Happy National Women’s College Day! Today, we wanted to highlight material from the Scripps College archives in celebration of 100 years of Scripps history. These photos showcase students of the past as they study in dorms, celebrate Bowling Green, and attend class in Balch Hall.

02/25/2026

Centennial Time Capsule #1: One hundred years ago this week, the world received news of the transformative donation made by Ellen Browning Scripps to create Scripps College. The Time Magazine issue of February 22nd, 1926, stated: “She gives, [and] has made giving an art.” When establishing the women’s college, she worked closely with James Blaisdell, the then-President of Pomona College, who wrote to her a year and a half a year later, “The beginning of a college has always seemed to me one of the great events of history for these institutions are immortal and the range of their influence timeless.” Today we share with you Ellen Browning Scripps’s cover image from Time Magazine, as well as Blaisdell’s four-page letter to Miss Scripps from October 1927, congratulating her on the establishment of Scripps College and crediting her as “the first to seize upon this idea of an affiliation of colleges” in Claremont, California.

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02/12/2026

Stop by our annual Date with a Rare Book event this Saturday (2/14) from 10-12:30!

01/30/2026

Built in 1931 and designed by architect Gordon Kaufmann in the cruciform shape of a chapel featuring stylistic elements from Spanish Colonial Revival, Denison Library was the second academic building to be built on the Scripps campus. Denison was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

01/21/2026