About the Harvard University Library

The Harvard University Library is the system of more than 80 libraries that provides comprehensive access to Harvard's library holdings across the boundaries of individual faculties and disciplines. The University Library is also a department of the University's central administration through which the libraries collaborate in the areas of digital acquisitions and collections, information technology, high-density storage, and preservation.

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HUL Awards EPDOP Support to HCL's William Stoneman
August 15, 2008
Dr. William Stoneman, the Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, has been chosen to receive the University Library's Extended Professional Development Opportunity Program (EPDOP) award for 2008. Full story >>

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Stuart M. Shieber to Lead Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication
May 22, 2008
Stuart M. Shieber '81, Harvard's James O. Welch, Jr., and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, will serve as director of the University's new Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC). Harvard University Provost Steven E. Hyman made the appointment, which he announced today with Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library (HUL). Full story >>

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Harvard's Libraries Launch "Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics"
February 2, 2008
New Contagion collection brings carefully selected historical materials from Harvard's renowned libraries, special collections, and archives to Internet users everywhere. Supported by Arcadia, the collection, which includes more than 500,000 pages of digitized books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts, contributes to the understanding of the global, social-history, and public-policy implications of disease and offers important historical perspectives on the science and the public policy of epidemiology today. Full story >>