Records of the Harvard University Library, 1698-

Harvard university library

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The University Library consists of all the collections of books in the possession of the University. It originated in 1638 with books left to the college by John Harvard. The library system currently consists of over 100 separate facilities, ranging from very small specialized collections to Widener Library, with its 5 million volumes. Each of the faculties within the University maintains one or more libraries serving its special constituency. The largest unit is the Harvard College Library (inc...

Harvard college library

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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...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Buck, Paul Herman, 1899-1978

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Buck (Harvard, Ph.D., 1924) taught history at Harvard, served as Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Provost of the University, and Director of the Harvard Library. From the description of Papers of Paul Herman Buck, 1913-1975 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973290 Author, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Herman Buck : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569413...

Bryant, Douglas W. (Douglas Wallace), 1913-

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Bryant served as librarian and director of the Harvard Library. From the description of Papers of Douglas Wallace Bryant, 1935-1979 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973321 ...

Coolidge, Archibald Cary, 1866-1928

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Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866-1928) was an American educator. He was a Professor of History at Harvard College and the first Director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 until his death. Coolidge was also a scholar in international affairs. Elizabeth Bateman Partington was the wife of Frederick Eugene Partington (Brown '79) and was Coolidge's grandmother. From the description of Archibald Cary Coolidge letters to Elizabeth Bateman Partington, 1885-1924. (Harvard University). ...

Lane, William Charles

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Librarian of Harvard College. From the description of Letters, 1909-1930, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to H. L. Koopman, Librian, Brown University. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122586733 Summer resident of Islesford, Me. From the description of Photograph album, 1903-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70966965 ...

Harvard Theatre Collection

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Fainsod, Merle, 1907-1972. | How Russia is ruled. Chinese

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Formerly Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard University, Professor Fainsod was the author of "Government and the American economy", "How Russia is ruled", "International socialism and the world war" and other works. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1944-1959. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225769354 Fainsod taught government at Harvard and was Director of the Harvard University Library. ...

Blake, Robert Pierpont‏ (1886-1950).‏

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Robert Pierpont Blake (1886-1950), historian and librarian, was an Instructor in History (1920-1923), Tutor (1920), Assistant Professor of History (1923-1928), Associate Professor of History (1928), Professor of History (1930) at Harvard, and also served as Director of the Harvard University Library (1928-1937). While at Harvard, Blake taught the Georgian and Armenian languages, courses on the economic development of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean world, and on the Byzantine and Ottoman ...

Metcalf, Keyes DeWitt, 1889-1983

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Keyes D. Metcalf (1889-1983) was the Librarian of Harvard College and Director of the Harvard University Library from 1937 to 1955. From the description of Papers of Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, 1969-1989. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973127 ...

Briggs, W. B.

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Potter, Alfred Claghorn, 1867-1940

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