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{{Infobox library
| library_name = The Harvard Library
| library_logo =
| image = Reading Room, Langdell Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge MA.jpg
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| alt =
| caption = Reading Room in Langdell Hall
| country = United States
| established = 1638<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Harvard Library|url=http://library.harvard.edu/about-us|work=Harvard Library|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=January 16, 2013|author=Harvard Library|date=Feb 14, 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107120414/http://library.harvard.edu/about-us|archivedate=January 7, 2013|df=}}</ref>
| location = Cambridge, Massachusetts
| num_branches = 73
| collection_size = 18.9M<ref name="AR2013">{{cite web|title=Harvard Library Annual Report FY 2013 |url=http://library.harvard.edu/annual-report-fy-2013 |date=2013 |website=Harvard Library |author=Harvard University |accessdate=March 17, 2015}}</ref> {{small|(2013)}}
| req_access = depends on library
| annual_circulation = 733,890<ref name="AR2013" /> {{small|(2013)}}
| pop_served =
| budget = {{US$|160M|link=yes}} {{small|(2014)}}
| director = [[Sarah Thomas (librarian)|Sarah Thomas]]
| num_employees = 922 [[Full-time equivalent|FTE]]s<ref>{{cite web|title=Harvard University Fact Book|url=http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/Provost_-_Harvard_Fact_Book_2009-10_FINAL_new.pdf|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=July 29, 2011|author=Office of Institutional Research|page=21|format=pdf|year=2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723162517/http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/Provost_-_Harvard_Fact_Book_2009-10_FINAL_new.pdf|archivedate=July 23, 2011|df=}}</ref>
| website = [http://library.harvard.edu/ Harvard Library Portal]
}}
The '''Harvard Library''' system comprises about 76 libraries,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/find-library|title=Find A Library {{!}} Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> with more than 18 million volumes. It is the oldest library system in the [[United States]] and the largest university library and largest private library system in the world.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pezzi |first=Bryan |title=Massachusetts |publisher=Weigl Publishers |year=2000 |page=15 |isbn=1-930954-35-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Karl |first=Thomas |authorlink=Thomas R. Karl |title=Toward an Earth Science Enterprise Federation: Results from a Workshop |publisher=[[National Academies Press]] |year=1998 |page=27 |isbn=0-309-06134-2}}</ref> Based on number of items held (including musical scores, maps, prints, recordings, etc.), it is the [[List of largest libraries|fifth largest library]] in the United States; based only on volumes (generally books), it is the third largest, after the [[Library of Congress]] and [[Boston Public Library]].<ref>American Library Association, "[http://www.ala.org/ala/professionalresources/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet22.cfm ALA Library Fact Sheet 22 – The Nation's Largest Libraries: A Listing by Volumes Held]". October 2012.</ref>
==History==
[[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s library system grew due to donations from prominent individuals, John Harvard being one of them. John Harvard was a Puritan minister who accumulated 400 books spreading word of his faith. These volumes were left to Harvard, initiating the library's collection. The works in this collection soon became obsolete, as Harvard Library quickly changed to an academic institute and found little need for the theological titles.
The location of the library changed over time. Originally it was in the Old College building. In 1676, the library was moved to Harvard Hall, which was where it remained until the building burnt down during the fire in 1764. The fire of 1764 destroyed the entire collection. Quickly after, a new Harvard Hall was built and 15,000 books were collected to create the new library.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/277203534|title=The library : an illustrated history|last=1948-|first=Murray, Stuart,|date=2009|publisher=[[Skyhorse Pub.]]|isbn=1602397066|location=New York, NY|oclc=277203534}}</ref> As time went on space became limited in Harvard Hall, and the library was moved to Gore Hall in 1841. Eventually, Gore Hall was no longer suitable and the books were moved elsewhere in 1912. Around this time, the library spread into more than one building. Some of the libraries were devoted to specialized topics.<ref name=Burke>{{cite web|last1=Burke|first1=Sarah K.|title=Bookish fires: the legacy of fire in the Harvard libraries |url=http://library.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/HLPS_fire_history.pdf|website=Harvard Library |accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref>
Over the next century the library grew to become the largest in America, but on January 24, 1764, a major fire destroyed almost all of Harvard's books and scientific instruments. All of the books in the library at the time of the fire were completely burned. The books that had been loaned out when the fire occurred were the only portion of the collection that remained.<ref name=Burke/> Books and donations were offered by friends of the college to replace its collections. An eccentric Englishman, [[Thomas Hollis (1720–1774)|Thomas Hollis V]] of [[Lincoln's Inn]], [[London]], (great-nephew of one of the University's early benefactors), began shipping thousands of specially chosen volumes to the University Library. Hollis continued to send books regularly until his death in 1774 and he also bequeathed £500 for a fund to continue buying books. This became Harvard's first [[Financial endowment|endowed]] book fund, and is still actively increasing the collections every year. Harvard Library's [[OPAC|online catalog]], HOLLIS<ref>https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?vid=HVD_IMAGES&lang=en_US&sortby=rank</ref> (a [[bacronym]] for "'''H'''arvard '''O'''n-'''L'''ine '''L'''ibrary '''I'''nformation '''S'''ystem"), is named after him.
Some of the books have been digitized within the [[Google Books Library Project#Harvard University|Google Books Library Project]],<ref name="Google">{{cite web|url=http://hul.harvard.edu/hgproject/index.html|title=Harvard University Library : Harvard-Google Project|website=hul.harvard.edu}}</ref> which was begun as a project developed with leadership and oversight by former Director [[Sidney Verba]].
On August 1, 2012, a new Harvard Library organization began operations, designed to improve a fragmented system of 73 libraries across Harvard's Schools with one that promotes University-wide collaboration. Functions that occur within all libraries—Access Services, Technical Services and Preservation Services—were unified to enable greater focus on the needs of the user community. The new structure was developed from recommendations of the Task Force on University Libraries and the Library Implementation Working Group.<ref name="Library Task Force Working Group Recommendations">http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1341444.files/Library_TaskForce_WorkingGroup_Recommendations.pdf</ref>
==Organizational structure==
The Harvard Library is the formal name for an administrative entity within the central administration of the University that has responsibility for central library services and policy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hul.harvard.edu/|title=Harvard Library|website=hul.harvard.edu}}</ref> {{As of|2013|8|df=US}}, [[Sarah Thomas (librarian)|Sarah Thomas]] is the current vice president for the Harvard Library and the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Harvard Library consists of:
*Access Services connects the academic community to the vast array of library resources.
*Information and Technical Services is responsible for acquiring, licensing and providing access to tangible and online collections in all formats.
*Preservation, Conservation and Digital Imaging Services is committed to ensuring that library materials remain secure and usable for contemporary and future scholars by conserving materials, digitizing collections, preserving library content in digital formats and providing robust education and outreach programs.
*The Harvard University Archives is the institutional archives of the University. It oversees the University's permanent records, collects Harvard-related manuscripts, papers, and historical materials, and supervises records management across the University.
*Finance supports the Library by providing accurate information that assists decision-making, maintaining the integrity of finance systems and completing financial transactions.
*Program Management ensures that potential projects and approved projects are managed in a considered, predictable and transparent way.
*The Office for Scholarly Communication provides for open access to works of scholarship produced by the Harvard community.
==Governance==
===Library Visiting Committee===
[[File:HarvardCollegeLibrary OverdueNotice1884.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.2|Overdue notice, 1884. "The Librarian begs to say{{nbsp}}..."]]
[[File:HarvardCollegeLibrary CatalogCardC.jpg |right|thumb|upright=1.2|Catalog card. ''C'' denotes Church History and Theology.]]
[[File:HarvardCollegeLibrary CatalogCardSwi.jpg |right|thumb|upright=1.2|Catalog card. ''Swi'' denotes Swiss History{{nbsp}}& Literature.]]
[[File:HarvardCollegeLibrary CatalogCardScan.jpg |right|thumb|upright=1.2|Catalog card. ''Scan'' denotes Scandinavian History{{nbsp}}& Literature.]]
[[File:HarvardCollegeLibrary CatalogCardHeb.jpg |right|thumb|upright=1.2|Catalog card. ''Heb'' denotes Hebraica.]]
Visiting Committee members are experts and Harvard alumni who are appointed by the Corporation. The Committee oversees the strategy and administration of the Harvard Library on behalf of the Overseers. Bi-annual visits and regular updates by the Office of the Provost provide an opportunity for Visiting Committee members to understand and advise on the Harvard Library’s progress.
===Library Board===
The Library Board is charged with reviewing the strategic plans of the Harvard Library and assessing its progress in meeting those plans, reviewing system-wide policies and standards and overseeing the progress of the central services. The provost chairs the Library Board (established in December 2010) and the Office of the Provost is responsible for overseeing the Harvard Library. The Harvard Library Board is composed of six permanent members and five rotating members who serve three years each, with their initial terms staggered. The permanent members are the provost, the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and the deans or designees from the following Schools: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Medical School.
The rotating members consist of three at-large, tenured faculty members, as well as deans or designees from the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Radcliffe Institute.
===Faculty Advisory Committee===
The establishment of the Harvard Library Faculty Advisory Council in 2011 brought together faculty from across the University. The Council advises the Library Board and the two groups meet together twice a year. Robert Darnton, Pforzheimer Professor, is the chair and James Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature, is the vice-chair.
===Library Council on Student Experience===
Established in 2012, the Library Council on Student Experience is a joint council consisting of librarians and students from across the University who identify and work together on University-wide priorities identified by the Council for improving the student library experience. The Council is co-chaired by a librarian appointed by the vice president for the Harvard Library and by a student elected from the student council members. Students and librarians are nominated by the School library directors and selected by the Office of the Provost. Other members include representatives from the Tell Us project, the Berkman Institute and Harvard Library Shared Services. Terms are for two academic years. The Council makes recommendations to and is supported by the vice president for the Harvard Library.
===Library Leadership Team===
The Harvard Library Leadership Team is responsible for planning, prioritizing and implementing joint Library initiatives. The team works with the vice president for the Harvard Library to develop and implement Library-wide strategy and policy approved by the Board. In collaboration with the Library IT Steering Committee it prioritizes new technology initiatives. In collaboration with the Innovation Working Group it prioritizes innovations to be scaled. Chaired by the vice president for the Harvard Library, the Team includes library directors from the ten schools and the Radcliffe Institute, the Affinity Group heads, the managing director of Library Technology Services (HUIT), the Office of Scholarly Communications, the Harvard Library shared services heads, the HL chief financial officer, the Harvard Library director of communications and the Harvard Library senior program manager.
==List of Harvard University libraries==
This list covers the Harvard College libraries, the Faculty of Arts and Science libraries, and the libraries of other Harvard faculties. In addition, Harvard University has a large number of special libraries, house libraries and affiliated libraries.
{|
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;Buildings of the Harvard College Library
* [[Cabot Science Library]]
* Fine Arts Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/fal|title=Fine Arts Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* H. C. Fung Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/fun|title=Fung Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* [[Houghton Library]]
* [[Lamont Library]]
* Loeb Music Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/mus|title=Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Tozzer Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/toz|title=Tozzer Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* [[Widener Library]]
* [[Harvard-Yenching Library]]
;Special and Departmental libraries in the Harvard College Library
* Biochemical Sciences Tutorial Library
* Biological Laboratories Library
* Birkhoff Mathematical Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/bir|title=Birkhoff Mathematical Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory Library<ref name="harvard.edu">{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/mck|title=Gordon McKay Library and Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
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* Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/che|title=Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Child Memorial Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/chi|title=Child Memorial Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Ernst Mayr Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/mcz|title=Ernst Mayr Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Grossman Library for University Extension<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/gro|title=Grossman Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* History Departmental Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/his|title=History Departmental Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* History of Science Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/hsl|title=History of Science Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* John G. Wolbach Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/wol|title=Wolbach Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Linguistics Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/lin|title=Linguistics Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* McKay Library of Engineering and Applied Sciences<ref name="harvard.edu"/>
* Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/nel|title=Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Paleography Library
* Peabody Museum Archives<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/pea|title=Peabody Museum Archives - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Physics Research Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/phy|title=Physics Research Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* African American Studies Reading Room<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/afr|title=African and African American Studies Reading Room - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Robbins Library of Philosophy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/phi|title=Robbins Library of Philosophy - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
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* Robinson Celtic Seminar Library
* Sanskrit Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/san|title=Sanskrit Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Smyth Classical Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/smy|title=Smyth Classical Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Statistics Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/sta|title=Statistics Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
;Libraries of other Harvard faculties<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/find-library#|title=Find A Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Andover-Harvard Theological Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/div|title=Andover-Harvard Theological Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Baker Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/bak|title=Baker Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/med|title=Countway Library of Medicine - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Gutman Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/gut|title=Monroe C. Gutman Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Harvard Law School Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/law|title=Harvard Law School Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* John F. Kennedy School of Government Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/ksg|title=Harvard Kennedy School Library & Knowledge Services - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Frances Loeb Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/des|title=Loeb Design Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/sch|title=Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
|}
==Librarians==
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;17th century
* [[Solomon Stoddard]], 1667-1672<ref name=potter>{{Citation
|publisher = Library of Harvard University
|publication-place = Cambridge, Mass
|author = Alfred Claghorn Potter, Charles Knowles Bolton
|url = https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7223959M/The_librarians_of_Harvard_College_1667-1877
|title = The Librarians of Harvard College 1667-1877
|publication-date = 1897
}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Sewall]], 1674<ref name=potter />
* Daniel Gookin, 1674–1676, 1679-1681<ref name=potter />
* Daniel Allin, 1676-1679<ref name=potter />
* John Cotton, 1681-1690<ref name=potter />
* Henry Newman, 1690-1693<ref name=potter />
* Ebenezer Pemberton, 1693-1697<ref name=potter />
* Nathaniel Saltonstall, 1697-1701<ref name=potter />
;18th century
* Anthony Stoddard, 1701-1702<ref name=potter />
* Josiah Willard, 1702-1703<ref name=potter />
* John Whiting, 1703-1706<ref name=potter />
* John Gore, 1706-1707<ref name=potter />
* Nathaniel Gookin, 1707-1709<ref name=potter />
* [[Edward Holyoke]], 1709-1712<ref name=potter />
* Thomas Robie, 1712-1713<ref name=potter />
* John Denison, 1713-1714<ref name=potter />
* John Rogers, 1714-1718<ref name=potter />
* William Welsteed, 1718-1720<ref name=potter />
* William Cooke, 1720-1721<ref name=potter />
* Joshua Gee, 1721-1722<ref name=potter />
* Mitchell Sewall, 1722-1723<ref name=potter />
* [[John Hancock, Jr.|John Hancock]], 1723-1726<ref name=potter />
* Stephen Sewall, 1726-1728<ref name=potter />
* Joseph Champney, 1728-1729<ref name=potter />
* Joseph Pynchon, 1729-1730<ref name=potter />
* Henry Gibbs, 1730-1734<ref name=potter />
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* Samuel Coolidge, 1734-1735<ref name=potter />
* James Diman, 1735-1737<ref name=potter />
* Samuel Cooke, 1737<ref name=potter />
* Thomas Marsh, 1737-1741<ref name=potter />
* Belcher Hancock, 1741-1742<ref name=potter />
* Benjamin Prat, 1742-1743<ref name=potter />
* Matthew Cushing, 1743-1748<ref name=potter />
* Oliver Peabody, 1748-1750<ref name=potter />
* Stephen Badger, 1751-1753<ref name=potter />
* John Rand, 1753-1755<ref name=potter />
* [[Mather Byles (loyalist)|Mather Byles]], 1755-1757<ref name=potter />
* Elizur Holyoke, 1757-1758<ref name=potter />
* Edward Brooks, 1758-1760<ref name=potter />
* Samuel Deane, 1760-1762<ref name=potter />
* Stephen Sewall, 1762-1763<ref name=potter />
* Andrew Eliot, 1763-1767<ref name=potter />
* Jonathan Moore, 1767-1768<ref name=potter />
* Nathaniel Ward, 1768<ref name=potter />
* Caleb Prentice, 1768-1769<ref name=potter />
* William Mayhew, 1769-1772<ref name=potter />
* James Winthrop, 1772-1787<ref name=potter />
* Isaac Smith, 1787-1791<ref name=potter />
* [[Thaddeus Mason Harris]], 1787, 1791-1793<ref name=potter />
* [[Samuel Shapleigh]], 1793-1800<ref name=potter />
;19th century
* [[Sidney Willard]], 1800-1805<ref name=potter />
* Peter Nourse, 1805-1808<ref name=potter />
* Samuel Cooper Thacher, 1808-1811<ref name=potter />
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* John Lovejoy Abbot, 1811-1813<ref name=potter />
* [[Andrews Norton]], 1813-1821<ref name=potter />
* [[Joseph Green Cogswell]], 1821-1823<ref name=potter />
* Charles Folsom, 1823-1826<ref name=potter />
* Benjamin Peirce, 1826-1831<ref name=potter />
* [[Thaddeus William Harris]], 1831-1856<ref name=potter />
* [[John Langdon Sibley]], 1856-1877<ref name=potter />
* [[Justin Winsor]], 1877-1897
* [[William Coolidge Lane]], 1898-1910
;20th century
* [[Archibald Cary Coolidge]], 1910-1928
* [[Robert Pierpont Blake]], 1928-1937
* [[Keyes Metcalf]], 1937-1955
* [[Paul Herman Buck]], 1955-1964
* [[Merle Fainsod]], 1964-1972
* Douglas W. Bryant, 1964-1979 (University Librarian, 1964-1979; Director of the University Library, 1972-1979)
* Louis E. Martin, 1972-1979 (Librarian of Harvard College)
* [[Oscar Handlin]], 1972-1984, (Carl Pforzheimer University Professor, 1972-; Director of the University Library, 1979-1984)
* [[Sidney Verba]], 1984-2006
;21st century
* [[Robert Darnton]], 2007-2015 (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian)
* [[Sarah Thomas (librarian)|Sarah Thomas]], 2013-present (Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian, Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
{{col-end}}
==See also==
* [[Google Books Library Project]]
* [[Dataverse]]
* [[Boston Medical Library]]
* [[List of online image archives]]
==References==
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| publisher = The Harvard Gazette
| date = November 12, 2013
| accessdate = November 13, 2013
}}</ref>-->
}}
==Further reading==
* "History of the Library." In The Library of Harvard University: Descriptive and Historical Notes, 4th ed., 12-35. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.
* Carpenter, Kenneth E. The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library: Description of an Exhibition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
* Bond, W. H. and Hugh Amory, eds. The Printed Catalogues of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1790. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1996.
* Kraus, J. W. (1961). The Harvard Undergraduate Library of 1773. College & Research Libraries, 22(4), 247-252.
* Olsen, M., & Harvey, L. G. (1993). Reading in revolutionary times: book borrowing from the Harvard College Library, 1773-1782. Harvard Library Bulletin, 4, 57-72.
==External links==
{{Commons category|Harvard University Library}}
*{{official|http://library.harvard.edu }}
*[http://hollis.harvard.edu HOLLIS catalog]
*[http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr/archive/bookplates/22_3_HollisHarvard.htm ''Journal of Library History'', vol. 22, no. 3 (Summer 1987): 338-341.]
*[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua12009 Harvard College Library: Library charging records, 1762-1897]
*[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua35010 Early Catalogs and Shelflists of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1822: an inventory]
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| library_name = The Harvard Library
| library_logo =
| image = Reading Room, Langdell Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge MA.jpg
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = Reading Room in Langdell Hall
| country = United States
| established = 1638<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Harvard Library|url=http://library.harvard.edu/about-us|work=Harvard Library|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=January 16, 2013|author=Harvard Library|date=Feb 14, 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107120414/http://library.harvard.edu/about-us|archivedate=January 7, 2013|df=}}</ref>
| location = Cambridge, Massachusetts
| num_branches = 73
| collection_size = 18.9M<ref name="AR2013">{{cite web|title=Harvard Library Annual Report FY 2013 |url=http://library.harvard.edu/annual-report-fy-2013 |date=2013 |website=Harvard Library |author=Harvard University |accessdate=March 17, 2015}}</ref> {{small|(2013)}}
| req_access = depends on library
| annual_circulation = 733,890<ref name="AR2013" /> {{small|(2013)}}
| pop_served =
| budget = {{US$|160M|link=yes}} {{small|(2014)}}
| director = [[Sarah Thomas (librarian)|Sarah Thomas]]
| num_employees = 922 [[Full-time equivalent|FTE]]s<ref>{{cite web|title=Harvard University Fact Book|url=http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/Provost_-_Harvard_Fact_Book_2009-10_FINAL_new.pdf|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=July 29, 2011|author=Office of Institutional Research|page=21|format=pdf|year=2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723162517/http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/Provost_-_Harvard_Fact_Book_2009-10_FINAL_new.pdf|archivedate=July 23, 2011|df=}}</ref>
| website = [http://library.harvard.edu/ Harvard Library Portal]
}}
The '''Harvard Library''' system comprises about 76 libraries,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/find-library|title=Find A Library {{!}} Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> with more than 18 million volumes. It is the oldest library system in the [[United States]] and the largest university library and largest private library system in the world.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pezzi |first=Bryan |title=Massachusetts |publisher=Weigl Publishers |year=2000 |page=15 |isbn=1-930954-35-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Karl |first=Thomas |authorlink=Thomas R. Karl |title=Toward an Earth Science Enterprise Federation: Results from a Workshop |publisher=[[National Academies Press]] |year=1998 |page=27 |isbn=0-309-06134-2}}</ref> Based on number of items held (including musical scores, maps, prints, recordings, etc.), it is the [[List of largest libraries|fifth largest library]] in the United States; based only on volumes (generally books), it is the third largest, after the [[Library of Congress]] and [[Boston Public Library]].<ref>American Library Association, "[http://www.ala.org/ala/professionalresources/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet22.cfm ALA Library Fact Sheet 22 – The Nation's Largest Libraries: A Listing by Volumes Held]". October 2012.</ref>
==History==
[[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s library system grew due to donations from prominent individuals, John Harvard being one of them. John Harvard was a Puritan minister who accumulated 400 books spreading word of his faith. These volumes were left to Harvard, initiating the library's collection. The works in this collection soon became obsolete, as Harvard Library quickly changed to an academic institute and found little need for the theological titles.
The location of the library changed over time. Originally it was in the Old College building. In 1676, the library was moved to Harvard Hall, which was where it remained until the building burnt down during the fire in 1764. The fire of 1764 destroyed the entire collection. Quickly after, a new Harvard Hall was built and 15,000 books were collected to create the new library.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/277203534|title=The library : an illustrated history|last=1948-|first=Murray, Stuart,|date=2009|publisher=[[Skyhorse Pub.]]|isbn=1602397066|location=New York, NY|oclc=277203534}}</ref> As time went on space became limited in Harvard Hall, and the library was moved to Gore Hall in 1841. Eventually, Gore Hall was no longer suitable and the books were moved elsewhere in 1912. Around this time, the library spread into more than one building. Some of the libraries were devoted to specialized topics.<ref name=Burke>{{cite web|last1=Burke|first1=Sarah K.|title=Bookish fires: the legacy of fire in the Harvard libraries |url=http://library.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/HLPS_fire_history.pdf|website=Harvard Library |accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref>
Over the next century the library grew to become the largest in America, but on January 24, 1764, a major fire destroyed almost all of Harvard's books and scientific instruments. All of the books in the library at the time of the fire were completely burned. The books that had been loaned out when the fire occurred were the only portion of the collection that remained.<ref name=Burke/> Books and donations were offered by friends of the college to replace its collections. An eccentric Englishman, [[Thomas Hollis (1720–1774)|Thomas Hollis V]] of [[Lincoln's Inn]], [[London]], (great-nephew of one of the University's early benefactors), began shipping thousands of specially chosen volumes to the University Library. Hollis continued to send books regularly until his death in 1774 and he also bequeathed £500 for a fund to continue buying books. This became Harvard's first [[Financial endowment|endowed]] book fund, and is still actively increasing the collections every year. Harvard Library's [[OPAC|online catalog]], HOLLIS<ref>https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?vid=HVD_IMAGES&lang=en_US&sortby=rank</ref> (a [[bacronym]] for "'''H'''arvard '''O'''n-'''L'''ine '''L'''ibrary '''I'''nformation '''S'''ystem"), is named after him.
Some of the books have been digitized within the [[Google Books Library Project#Harvard University|Google Books Library Project]],<ref name="Google">{{cite web|url=http://hul.harvard.edu/hgproject/index.html|title=Harvard University Library : Harvard-Google Project|website=hul.harvard.edu}}</ref> which was begun as a project developed with leadership and oversight by former Director [[Sidney Verba]].
On August 1, 2012, a new Harvard Library organization began operations, designed to improve a fragmented system of 73 libraries across Harvard's Schools with one that promotes University-wide collaboration. Functions that occur within all libraries—Access Services, Technical Services and Preservation Services—were unified to enable greater focus on the needs of the user community. The new structure was developed from recommendations of the Task Force on University Libraries and the Library Implementation Working Group.<ref name="Library Task Force Working Group Recommendations">http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1341444.files/Library_TaskForce_WorkingGroup_Recommendations.pdf</ref>
==Organizational structure==
The Harvard Library is the formal name for an administrative entity within the central administration of the University that has responsibility for central library services and policy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hul.harvard.edu/|title=Harvard Library|website=hul.harvard.edu}}</ref> {{As of|2013|8|df=US}}, [[Sarah Thomas (librarian)|Sarah Thomas]] is the current vice president for the Harvard Library and the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Harvard Library consists of:
*Access Services connects the academic community to the vast array of library resources.
*Information and Technical Services is responsible for acquiring, licensing and providing access to tangible and online collections in all formats.
*Preservation, Conservation and Digital Imaging Services is committed to ensuring that library materials remain secure and usable for contemporary and future scholars by conserving materials, digitizing collections, preserving library content in digital formats and providing robust education and outreach programs.
*The Harvard University Archives is the institutional archives of the University. It oversees the University's permanent records, collects Harvard-related manuscripts, papers, and historical materials, and supervises records management across the University.
*Finance supports the Library by providing accurate information that assists decision-making, maintaining the integrity of finance systems and completing financial transactions.
*Program Management ensures that potential projects and approved projects are managed in a considered, predictable and transparent way.
*The Office for Scholarly Communication provides for open access to works of scholarship produced by the Harvard community.
==Governance==
===Library Visiting Committee===
[[File:HarvardCollegeLibrary OverdueNotice1884.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.2|Overdue notice, 1884. "The Librarian begs to say{{nbsp}}..."]]
[[File:HarvardCollegeLibrary CatalogCardC.jpg |right|thumb|upright=1.2|Catalog card. ''C'' denotes Church History and Theology.]]
[[File:HarvardCollegeLibrary CatalogCardSwi.jpg |right|thumb|upright=1.2|Catalog card. ''Swi'' denotes Swiss History{{nbsp}}& Literature.]]
[[File:HarvardCollegeLibrary CatalogCardScan.jpg |right|thumb|upright=1.2|Catalog card. ''Scan'' denotes Scandinavian History{{nbsp}}& Literature.]]
[[File:HarvardCollegeLibrary CatalogCardHeb.jpg |right|thumb|upright=1.2|Catalog card. ''Heb'' denotes Hebraica.]]
Visiting Committee members are experts and Harvard alumni who are appointed by the Corporation. The Committee oversees the strategy and administration of the Harvard Library on behalf of the Overseers. Bi-annual visits and regular updates by the Office of the Provost provide an opportunity for Visiting Committee members to understand and advise on the Harvard Library’s progress.
===Library Board===
The Library Board is charged with reviewing the strategic plans of the Harvard Library and assessing its progress in meeting those plans, reviewing system-wide policies and standards and overseeing the progress of the central services. The provost chairs the Library Board (established in December 2010) and the Office of the Provost is responsible for overseeing the Harvard Library. The Harvard Library Board is composed of six permanent members and five rotating members who serve three years each, with their initial terms staggered. The permanent members are the provost, the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and the deans or designees from the following Schools: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Medical School.
The rotating members consist of three at-large, tenured faculty members, as well as deans or designees from the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Radcliffe Institute.
===Faculty Advisory Committee===
The establishment of the Harvard Library Faculty Advisory Council in 2011 brought together faculty from across the University. The Council advises the Library Board and the two groups meet together twice a year. Robert Darnton, Pforzheimer Professor, is the chair and James Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature, is the vice-chair.
===Library Council on Student Experience===
Established in 2012, the Library Council on Student Experience is a joint council consisting of librarians and students from across the University who identify and work together on University-wide priorities identified by the Council for improving the student library experience. The Council is co-chaired by a librarian appointed by the vice president for the Harvard Library and by a student elected from the student council members. Students and librarians are nominated by the School library directors and selected by the Office of the Provost. Other members include representatives from the Tell Us project, the Berkman Institute and Harvard Library Shared Services. Terms are for two academic years. The Council makes recommendations to and is supported by the vice president for the Harvard Library.
===Library Leadership Team===
The Harvard Library Leadership Team is responsible for planning, prioritizing and implementing joint Library initiatives. The team works with the vice president for the Harvard Library to develop and implement Library-wide strategy and policy approved by the Board. In collaboration with the Library IT Steering Committee it prioritizes new technology initiatives. In collaboration with the Innovation Working Group it prioritizes innovations to be scaled. Chaired by the vice president for the Harvard Library, the Team includes library directors from the ten schools and the Radcliffe Institute, the Affinity Group heads, the managing director of Library Technology Services (HUIT), the Office of Scholarly Communications, the Harvard Library shared services heads, the HL chief financial officer, the Harvard Library director of communications and the Harvard Library senior program manager.
==List of Harvard University libraries==
This list covers the Harvard College libraries, the Faculty of Arts and Science libraries, and the libraries of other Harvard faculties. In addition, Harvard University has a large number of special libraries, house libraries and affiliated libraries.
{|
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;Buildings of the Harvard College Library
* [[Cabot Science Library]]
* Fine Arts Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/fal|title=Fine Arts Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* H. C. Fung Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/fun|title=Fung Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* [[Houghton Library]]
* [[Lamont Library]]
* Loeb Music Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/mus|title=Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Tozzer Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/toz|title=Tozzer Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* [[Widener Library]]
* [[Harvard-Yenching Library]]
;Special and Departmental libraries in the Harvard College Library
* Biochemical Sciences Tutorial Library
* Biological Laboratories Library
* Birkhoff Mathematical Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/bir|title=Birkhoff Mathematical Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory Library<ref name="harvard.edu">{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/mck|title=Gordon McKay Library and Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
|valign="top"|
* Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/che|title=Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Child Memorial Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/chi|title=Child Memorial Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Ernst Mayr Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/mcz|title=Ernst Mayr Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Grossman Library for University Extension<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/gro|title=Grossman Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* History Departmental Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/his|title=History Departmental Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* History of Science Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/hsl|title=History of Science Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* John G. Wolbach Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/wol|title=Wolbach Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Linguistics Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/lin|title=Linguistics Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* McKay Library of Engineering and Applied Sciences<ref name="harvard.edu"/>
* Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/nel|title=Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Paleography Library
* Peabody Museum Archives<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/pea|title=Peabody Museum Archives - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Physics Research Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/phy|title=Physics Research Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* African American Studies Reading Room<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/afr|title=African and African American Studies Reading Room - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Robbins Library of Philosophy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/phi|title=Robbins Library of Philosophy - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
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* Robinson Celtic Seminar Library
* Sanskrit Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/san|title=Sanskrit Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Smyth Classical Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/smy|title=Smyth Classical Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Statistics Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/sta|title=Statistics Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
;Libraries of other Harvard faculties<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/find-library#|title=Find A Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Andover-Harvard Theological Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/div|title=Andover-Harvard Theological Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Baker Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/bak|title=Baker Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/med|title=Countway Library of Medicine - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Gutman Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/gut|title=Monroe C. Gutman Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Harvard Law School Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/law|title=Harvard Law School Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* John F. Kennedy School of Government Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/ksg|title=Harvard Kennedy School Library & Knowledge Services - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Frances Loeb Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/des|title=Loeb Design Library - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
* Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.harvard.edu/sch|title=Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America - Harvard Library|website=library.harvard.edu}}</ref>
|}
==Librarians==
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;17th century
* [[Solomon Stoddard]], 1667-1672<ref name=potter>{{Citation
|publisher = Library of Harvard University
|publication-place = Cambridge, Mass
|author = Alfred Claghorn Potter, Charles Knowles Bolton
|url = https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7223959M/The_librarians_of_Harvard_College_1667-1877
|title = The Librarians of Harvard College 1667-1877
|publication-date = 1897
}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Sewall]], 1674<ref name=potter />
* Daniel Gookin, 1674–1676, 1679-1681<ref name=potter />
* Daniel Allin, 1676-1679<ref name=potter />
* John Cotton, 1681-1690<ref name=potter />
* Henry Newman, 1690-1693<ref name=potter />
* Ebenezer Pemberton, 1693-1697<ref name=potter />
* Nathaniel Saltonstall, 1697-1701<ref name=potter />
;18th century
* Anthony Stoddard, 1701-1702<ref name=potter />
* Josiah Willard, 1702-1703<ref name=potter />
* John Whiting, 1703-1706<ref name=potter />
* John Gore, 1706-1707<ref name=potter />
* Nathaniel Gookin, 1707-1709<ref name=potter />
* [[Edward Holyoke]], 1709-1712<ref name=potter />
* Thomas Robie, 1712-1713<ref name=potter />
* John Denison, 1713-1714<ref name=potter />
* John Rogers, 1714-1718<ref name=potter />
* William Welsteed, 1718-1720<ref name=potter />
* William Cooke, 1720-1721<ref name=potter />
* Joshua Gee, 1721-1722<ref name=potter />
* Mitchell Sewall, 1722-1723<ref name=potter />
* [[John Hancock, Jr.|John Hancock]], 1723-1726<ref name=potter />
* Stephen Sewall, 1726-1728<ref name=potter />
* Joseph Champney, 1728-1729<ref name=potter />
* Joseph Pynchon, 1729-1730<ref name=potter />
* Henry Gibbs, 1730-1734<ref name=potter />
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* Samuel Coolidge, 1734-1735<ref name=potter />
* James Diman, 1735-1737<ref name=potter />
* Samuel Cooke, 1737<ref name=potter />
* Thomas Marsh, 1737-1741<ref name=potter />
* Belcher Hancock, 1741-1742<ref name=potter />
* Benjamin Prat, 1742-1743<ref name=potter />
* Matthew Cushing, 1743-1748<ref name=potter />
* Oliver Peabody, 1748-1750<ref name=potter />
* Stephen Badger, 1751-1753<ref name=potter />
* John Rand, 1753-1755<ref name=potter />
* [[Mather Byles (loyalist)|Mather Byles]], 1755-1757<ref name=potter />
* Elizur Holyoke, 1757-1758<ref name=potter />
* Edward Brooks, 1758-1760<ref name=potter />
* Samuel Deane, 1760-1762<ref name=potter />
* Stephen Sewall, 1762-1763<ref name=potter />
* Andrew Eliot, 1763-1767<ref name=potter />
* Jonathan Moore, 1767-1768<ref name=potter />
* Nathaniel Ward, 1768<ref name=potter />
* Caleb Prentice, 1768-1769<ref name=potter />
* William Mayhew, 1769-1772<ref name=potter />
* James Winthrop, 1772-1787<ref name=potter />
* Isaac Smith, 1787-1791<ref name=potter />
* [[Thaddeus Mason Harris]], 1787, 1791-1793<ref name=potter />
* [[Samuel Shapleigh]], 1793-1800<ref name=potter />
;19th century
* [[Sidney Willard]], 1800-1805<ref name=potter />
* Peter Nourse, 1805-1808<ref name=potter />
* Samuel Cooper Thacher, 1808-1811<ref name=potter />
{{col-3-of-3}}
* John Lovejoy Abbot, 1811-1813<ref name=potter />
* [[Andrews Norton]], 1813-1821<ref name=potter />
* [[Joseph Green Cogswell]], 1821-1823<ref name=potter />
* Charles Folsom, 1823-1826<ref name=potter />
* Benjamin Peirce, 1826-1831<ref name=potter />
* [[Thaddeus William Harris]], 1831-1856<ref name=potter />
* [[John Langdon Sibley]], 1856-1877<ref name=potter />
* [[Justin Winsor]], 1877-1897
* [[William Coolidge Lane]], 1898-1910
;20th century
* [[Archibald Cary Coolidge]], 1910-1928
* [[Robert Pierpont Blake]], 1928-1937
* [[Keyes Metcalf]], 1937-1955
* [[Paul Herman Buck]], 1955-1964
* [[Merle Fainsod]], 1964-1972
* Douglas W. Bryant, 1964-1979 (University Librarian, 1964-1979; Director of the University Library, 1972-1979)
* Louis E. Martin, 1972-1979 (Librarian of Harvard College)
* [[Oscar Handlin]], 1972-1984, (Carl Pforzheimer University Professor, 1972-; Director of the University Library, 1979-1984)
* [[Sidney Verba]], 1984-2006
;21st century
* [[Robert Darnton]], 2007-2015 (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian)
* [[Sarah Thomas (librarian)|Sarah Thomas]], 2013-present (Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian, Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
{{col-end}}
==See also==
* [[Google Books Library Project]]
* [[Dataverse]]
* [[Boston Medical Library]]
* [[List of online image archives]]
==References==
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| last = Ireland
| first = Corydon
| title = A Colonial goldmine
| publisher = The Harvard Gazette
| date = November 12, 2013
| accessdate = November 13, 2013
}}</ref>-->
}}
==Further reading==
* "History of the Library." In The Library of Harvard University: Descriptive and Historical Notes, 4th ed., 12-35. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.
* Carpenter, Kenneth E. The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library: Description of an Exhibition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
* Bond, W. H. and Hugh Amory, eds. The Printed Catalogues of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1790. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1996.
* Kraus, J. W. (1961). The Harvard Undergraduate Library of 1773. College & Research Libraries, 22(4), 247-252.
* Olsen, M., & Harvey, L. G. (1993). Reading in revolutionary times: book borrowing from the Harvard College Library, 1773-1782. Harvard Library Bulletin, 4, 57-72.
==External links==
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*[http://hollis.harvard.edu HOLLIS catalog]
*[http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr/archive/bookplates/22_3_HollisHarvard.htm ''Journal of Library History'', vol. 22, no. 3 (Summer 1987): 338-341.]
*[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua12009 Harvard College Library: Library charging records, 1762-1897]
*[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua35010 Early Catalogs and Shelflists of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1822: an inventory]
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