Study Spaces

Baker Library Exchange (First Floor)

Located inside the South entrance to Baker Library on the ground floor, the Exchange offers comfortable seating and computer workstations to all visitors. In addition, there are Bloomberg terminals for use by HBS students, faculty, and staff. (Authorized Baker visitors may use additional Bloomberg terminals in the Stamps Reading Room).

Librarians and students talking in the exchange lobby area seated on couches. In background librarian instructing student at a computer terminal.

De Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room (First Floor)

Special Collections & Archives materials are made available to researchers in the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room on the first floor of Baker Library. MBA students are also welcome to use the room as a quiet study space. The Beaubien Reading Room provides research and study space for up to 20 people.

Room with wooden tables lined with bookshelves. People seated at many tables.

Stamps Reading Room (Third Floor)

The Stamps Reading Room on the third floor of Baker Library provides shared tables, individual study carrels, comfortable seating, public computers and docking stations with monitors. There are also several Bloomberg terminals in the Reading Room. Stamps also houses our main service desk, where we provide both circulation and research services.

Aerial shot of the Stamps Reading Room with students at tables

Stamps Reading Room Annex (Third Floor)

This collaborative workspace is located on the 3rd floor, adjacent to the Stamps Reading Room. The space features several amenities for patrons including movable tables and chairs, a group project room, two individual private work rooms, as well as a charging station, copier, and scanner.  Water and restrooms are also located in the Annex.  

Several students around a table with monitor in Baker 379

Stacks (Basement, via Third Floor)

The majority of Baker's circulating collection, as well as our serials and microformat materials, are located on the Stacks level. Accessible only from the elevator within the Stamps Reading Room , the stacks are the quietest study space within the library and provide both team space and individual study carrels. There is also a restroom in the Stacks.

Librarian and students interacting in Baker Library stacks

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