Welcome
This guide is selective and intended as a point of departure for your research in History 2426: Topics in the History of Gender and Sexuality.
Please feel free to email us with questions. We can make an appointment for you to come in, and we can talk at length about your project.
More general sources are listed in the Library Research Guide for American Studies.
Fred Burchsted (burchst@fas.harvard.edu), Research Librarian and Liaison to the Department of the History of Science, Widener Library.
Susan Gilman (sgilman@fas.harvard.edu), Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Lamont Library
Getting What You Need
There is a guide to Finding Materials in Widener.
Finding a pertinent book on the shelf and then looking at its neighbors is an excellent way of finding more material, because the call number system is also a subject system: HQ 731 and succeeding numbers mean marriage.
If a book is checked out, you can probably get it within 1-4 days via Borrow Direct. This is quicker than recalling it from the person who has it.
The new Harvard Direct system allows you to request a book from one Harvard library to be delivered to another. Hit Request item on the HOLLIS record for a book that is not checked out. More on Harvard Direct.
If you have the citation to an article which is not available online or the pages or chapter (up to 30 pp.) from a book, Scan & Deliver will email you the pdf within 1-4 days. Hit Scan & Deliver on the HOLLIS record.
Interlibrary Loan will obtain, generally within 1 week-10 days, material not held by Harvard. This includes books (for which try the quicker Borrow Direct first), DVDs, microfilm and other formats. ILL will also obtain scans of periodical articles and book chapters not available at Harvard: choose Request Article/Chapter under ILL Requests on your ILL page. This takes only 1-4 days.