1. Introduction
Welcome to graduate study in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. This guide is intended to help you get started finding what you need among Harvard's many research resources. Please feel free to ask librarians in any of Harvard's libraries for assistance; and remember that you may email questions at any time, either to Ask a Librarian or to the Contact Person for this guide.
See the list of Frequently Asked Questions at the end of this guide!
Overview
There are over 90 libraries at Harvard that comprise the Harvard library system, with combined holdings of close to 16 million items.
More than 10 million of those items are part of the collection of a centrally administered unit within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that is referred to as the Harvard College Library (HCL), comprising these libraries and special units: Cabot Science Library, Environmental Information Services, Fine Arts Library, Fung Library , Government Documents/Microforms Collections, Harvard Film Archive, Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard-Yenching Library, Houghton Library, Lamont Library, Loeb Music Library, Numeric Data Services, Tozzer Library, and Widener Library.
See the Harvard College Libraries site for brief descriptions of HCL libraries and links to their websites.
see the Harvard Libraries site for a complete listing of all University libraries.
All the HCL libraries and programs invite you to explore the possibilities for research that our collections and services provide.
Timely Information
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Interdisciplinary Programs within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
There are an increasing number of organizations fostering interdisciplinary and transciplinary research at Harvard, which may be of interest to graduate students. See, for example, Humanities Center at Harvard, Harvard Integrated Life Sciences, Graduate Consortia and the Graduate Consortium of Women's Studies.
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