Harvard Library

The Harvard University Library ( HUL ), also briefly Harvard Library is the library system of Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts ). It was founded in 1638 by John Harvard and is the oldest academic library system in the United States. The HUL now includes 79 different libraries with a total inventory of 16.8 million volumes (as of 2013).

History

The core of the library of Harvard College were 400 books in the possession of the theologian John Harvard, but it grew in the next century to the then largest library in America before they lost by a fire in 1764 almost all collections. The Harvard College then received numerous book and monetary donations for the reconstruction, said Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), who had to send thousands of selected works from England, we can highlight the. First official librarian was from 1667 to 1672 Solomon Stoddard.

Today it is the largest university library system in the world, also the third largest library in the United States after the Library of Congress and the Library Network of the Boston Public Library.

Organizational structure

The entire library management reports to the Office of the Librarian of Harvard College. On 20 December 2010 Helen Shenton has previously worked at the British Library, appointed Executive Director of the Harvard Library. Oversight body within the university administration is the Library Board.

Libraries Harvard University

The library building are:

  • Cabot Science Library, 1973 Godfrey Lowell Cabot named after
  • Fine Arts Library
  • H. C. Fung Library
  • Houghton Library, named after Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. and opened in 1942 especially for valuable book collections and for relief of Widener Library
  • Lamont Library, named after Thomas William Lamont (1870-1948) and in 1949 opened especially for the basic needs of the freshmen
  • Loeb Music Library
  • Tozzer Library, named in 1974 after Alfred Tozzer ( 1877-1954 ), previously the Peabody Museum Library
  • Weissman Preservation Center Library, Centre for Conservation
  • Widener library

The Widener Library is the library itself the main building and was opened to commemorate Harry Widener on June 24, 1915.

In addition to these independent library buildings the other specialty and technical libraries in other buildings of the University of operation are housed on the sprawling campus.

Indexing of

Online subscriptions are the OPACs HOLLIS and HOLLIS Classic available today.

Publications

  • Harvard Library bulletin. ISSN 0017-8136
  • Annual report. ISSN 0161-3944 (online since 2002) (title varies )
  • Harvard University Library Notes. (online since 1999)
Cambridge (Massachusetts) John Harvard (clergyman) Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Preservation (library and archival science) Harry Elkins Widener Integrated Authority File
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