Secondary sources
The following is a selected list of publications about the history of the Harvard Library and the larger University. Please, check HOLLIS to find copies of these works at the University Archives and at other Harvard libraries.
- Library histories:
- The Harvard University Library: a Documentary History: Bibliographic Guide by Kenneth E. Carpenter, ed. Frederick, Md.: UPA Academic Editions, 1990.
- The Three-Hundredth Anniversary of the Harvard College Library by Clarence Eldon Walton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 1939.
- The Library of Harvard University: Descriptive and Historical Notes by Alfred Claghorn Potter. 4th ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1934.
- The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library: Description of an Exhibition by Kenneth E. Carpenter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Library, 1986.
- The Harvard University Library: a Documentary History: Bibliographic Guide by Kenneth E. Carpenter, ed. Frederick, Md.: UPA Academic Editions, 1990.
- General histories:
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The Development of Harvard University Since the Inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929 edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930.
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The Founding of Harvard College by Samuel Eliot Morison. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935. (Reprint, with a new foreword by Hugh Hawkins. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
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Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century by John T. Bethell. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century by Samuel Eliot Morison. Two volumes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936.
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