Secondary Sources

  • Monographs

    •  “The Harvard College Library, 1877-1928: Gore Hall and the Widener Library” by William Coolidge Lane. The Development of Harvard University since the Inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929. Ed. Samuel Eliot Morison. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1930. 623-628. [Call number: HUA 930.56]

    • Building a Great Library: The Coolidge Years at Harvard, by William Bentinck-Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Library, 1976. [Call number: HUF 523.176.7]

    •  "... a memorial to my dear son": Some Reflections on 65 years of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, by William Bentinck-Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 1980. [Call number: HUF 523.180.8]

    • Keeping Widener Library from Bursting: or, Managing Growth and Space by Kenneth E. Carpenter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Library, 1992. [Call number: HUF 523.192.16]

    • Widener Library Renovation Project, 1999-2004. Published by Harvard College Library Communications, 2004. [Call number: HUB 1878.94.1]

    • Widener: Biography of a Library by Matthew Battles. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004. [Call number: HUF 523.199.2004.5]

  • Serials

    •  "The New Harvard Library" by William Coolidge Lane. Library Journal Volume 38, Number 5. May 1913. [Call number: HUB 1878.48]

    • [Widener Library plans and photographs.] The Brickbuilder. Volume 24, Number 8. August 1915. [Call number: HUB 1878.10pf]

    • Harvard Gazette [Call number: HU 20.15.2]
      • "Widener Library Renovations: On Time, On Budget" by Beth Potier. Harvard Gazette 30 September 2004.
      • "Widener Library Rededicated and Its Staff Recognized in Ceremony" by Beth Potier. Harvard Gazette 7 October 2004.
    • Harvard Library Bulletin [Call number: HUF 523.836]
      • "The Improvement of the Widener Building as a Research Center." Harvard Library Bulletin Volume III, Number 1. Winter 1949.
      • "A Proposal for Changes in Widener" by Keyes D. Metcalf. Harvard Library Bulletin Volume IV, Number 1. Winter 1950. 86-97.
      • "Archibald Cary Coolidge and the Harvard Library, III. The Passing of Gore and the Building of Widener: A Documentary Tale" by William Bentinck-Smith. Harvard Library Bulletin Volume XXII, Number 1, January 1974. 76-110.
    • Harvard Magazine [Call number: HUK 137]
      • "Cooked Books: Costly Rx for Libraries." John Harvard’s Journal. Harvard Magazine Volume 100, Number 5. May/June 1998.
      • "Big Doings at Widener Library." John Harvard’s Journal. Harvard Magazine Volume 101, Number 6. July/August 1999.
      • "Widener Library: Youthful at the Core." John Harvard’s Journal. Harvard Magazine. Volume 104, Number 3. January/February 2002.
      • "Lies about Harry." The College Pump. Harvard Magazine Volume 105, Number 6. July/August 2003.
      • "Widener Reborn." John Harvard’s Journal. Harvard Magazine. Volume 107, Number 2. November/December 2004. Includes photograph of pop-up keepsake designed by Mark Steele for guests at the rededication dinner.