Perpustakaan Harvard

Sistem Perpustakaan Harvard terdiri daripada kira-kira 73 buah perpustakaan, dengan lebih daripada 18 juta buah buku. Ia merupakan sistem perpustakaan tertua di Amerika Syarikat dan merupakan perpustakaan universiti terbesar serta sistem perpustakaan persendirian terbesar di dunia. Jika berdasarkan jumlah koleksi (termasuk skor muzik, peta, cetakan, rekod dan sebagainya), ia merupakan perpustakaan kelima terbesar di Amerika Syarikat, namun jika berdasarkan buku sahaja, ia merupakan yang ketiga terbesar selepas Perpustakaan Kongres Amerika Syarikat dan Perpustakaan Awam Boston.American Library Association, "ALA Library Fact Sheet 22 – The Nation's Largest Libraries: A Listing by Volumes Held". October 2012.

Rujukan

Bacaan tambahan
 "History of the Library." In The Library of Harvard University: Descriptive and Historical Notes, 4th ed., 12-35. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.
 Carpenter, Kenneth E. The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library: Description of an Exhibition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
 Bond, W. H. and Hugh Amory, eds. The Printed Catalogues of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1790. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1996.
 Kraus, J. W. (1961). The Harvard Undergraduate Library of 1773. College & Research Libraries, 22(4), 247-252.
 Olsen, M., & Harvey, L. G. (1993). Reading in revolutionary times: book borrowing from the Harvard College Library, 1773-1782. Harvard Library Bulletin, 4, 57-72.

Pautan luar

HOLLIS catalog
Journal of Library History, vol. 22, no. 3 (Summer 1987): 338-341.
Harvard College Library: Library charging records, 1762-1897
Early Catalogs and Shelflists of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1822: an inventory

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