Early Catalogs and Shelflists of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1822

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Early Catalogs and Shelflists of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1822

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This collection of early catalogs and shelflists of the Harvard College Library includes both printed and manuscript material. It contains at least one copy of each of the three printed library catalogs published in the eighteenth century, with related supplements; two sets of library alcove shelflists; numerous manuscript catalogs of the library, arranged either alphabetically or by subject, including one believed to have been in use during the College's evacuation to Concord during the American Revolutionary War; and multiple "tracts catalogs," which listed pamphlets in the library's collection before they were integrated into the general catalog.

4.77 cubic feet; (1.5 legal document boxes, 5 flat boxes, 16 volumes and 1 microfilm box)

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The Harvard College Library used ledgers to record the loans of books from the library's collection during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The presence of what appear to be call-slips from 1823 to 1826 and the lack of ledgers for this period is unaccounted for in the literature cited in the bibliography. Late in the nineteenth century, librarians recognized that the ledger system could not provide the flexibility needed to control large collections. At the Harvard College L...