Including Widner Library, Harvard-Yanjing Library, Science Center Library, S. Moore and F.W. Hill Library, Andover-Harvard Theological Seminary Library, Courtway Medical Library Baker Business Management Library (with famous works such as Crixus Business and Economic History Collection and Bancroft south sea bubble Collection before 1850), Dumbarton Rubber Garden Research Library (mainly collecting Byzantine history) Rob Music Library, Gordon? MacKay Library of Engineering and Applied Physics, Francis? Loeb design and research institute library, law school library, John? Kennedy School of Administration Library, Geological Science Library, Comparative Zoology Museum Library, Biology Laboratory Library, Chemistry Library, Physics Research Library, Psychology Research Library, Social Relations Library, Women's History Library, Art Library, etc. Most libraries offer open-shelf loans to 20,000 teachers, students and off-campus researchers.
If there are no books urgently needed by readers at Harvard, readers can borrow them from libraries of other universities in the United States or even libraries in other countries through the library system. If only a few pages of a chapter are needed, the lending library can also copy the relevant pages and send them to readers. All these facilities and services are free of charge. Borrowed books belong to personal privacy. The library respects the privacy of scholars, and the library staff can't disclose the information of readers' borrowing books to the third party in any form.
There is no limit to the number of books borrowed and the borrowing period varies, so you can renew them online. Considering the long-term use of books by graduate students, professors and visiting scholars above Grade 4, they can borrow books for one semester at most, but once other readers need to use them, they often need to return them within one week to ensure that all readers have equal opportunities to use the materials. The time for undergraduates and juniors to borrow books is much shorter.
The library of Harvard University, like other libraries, must return every book within the prescribed time limit. If you don't pay it back within the time limit, you will be fined. The fine can't escape, because the library has the personal information of all readers. If the fine is not paid in time, it will appear on the student's final bill. If it is a professor or an employee, the library will issue a ticket to the reader through the financial department of the school.
Many libraries in Harvard have comfortable sofas in their reading rooms. When readers are tired, they just lean on the sofa for a while and then work hard. Students often forget to eat and sleep, study and time. If you stay in an inconspicuous corner of the museum, it will happen from time to time that you are locked inside after closing. Widner Library is the largest research library of social sciences and humanities in Harvard, with a collection of domestic and foreign documents such as history, economy, language and literature, with a collection of 3.45 million volumes alone. The whole library has more than 6 million books, and it is increasing rapidly every year.
The main building contains the card catalogs of all Harvard libraries, as well as the catalogs compiled by computers and microfilms since 1977. The library was built in the 1920s and named after Widner, a Harvard graduate and a young collector. The alumnus who died in the sinking of Titanic made it clear in his will that all his books would be donated to his alma mater after his death. The main entrance of the library is a row of cylindrical corridors similar to Roman style, with more than 20 steps in front of it. Every time before entering the library, it is like a spiritual climbing ceremony. Harvard-Yanjing Library is famous for its rich East Asian literature collection, which is second only to the Library of Congress. Founded in 1928, the first curator is Alfred Kaiming Chiu. When it was built, there were only over 4,000 Chinese documents, 1000 today's documents. Up to 65,438+0,982, there are more than 360,000 Chinese books, 65,438+0,600 Japanese books, and 90,000 other East Asian languages and Western books related to East Asia.
In addition, there are microfilms, microfiches, rubbings, photos, brochures and so on. There are 4673 kinds of ancient books in China with 44993 volumes, 4000 kinds of local chronicles in China and 0/500 kinds of books in China. There are 2 volumes of Yongle dadian, 2 volumes of sikuquanshu, 38 volumes of song dynasty 16, yuan dynasty 1275 volumes of Ming dynasty, all of which are orphans outside China. There are cards and books in the catalogue. All languages have authors, titles, themes and bookshelves. The classification adopts Alfred Kaiming Chiu's Hanhe Book Classification, which combines the characteristics of four-database classification and modern classification, and has been used by East Asian libraries in North America to this day.