History and Literature 97: The Politics of Memory-Making

HOLLIS has two main parts. There’s the traditional Library Catalog of Harvard's books, journals, films, sound recordings, maps, and so on. Then there’s a huge additional database of articles, reviews, etc. which come from various sources outside Harvard. Many of these are available online through Harvard's subscriptions.

You can search the Library Catalog separately, or  -- especially if you want to see articles -- search for both "Catalog and Articles" at once. These choices appear as soon as you start to type a search.

• Sign in -- to get more search results; to read Full Text online; to place Requests; to save records in My Favorites; to see your search history; and to view your list of checked-out items.
• Use "Starts with/Browse" for more precise searching by subject, author, call number, etc. (see the screenshot below)
• Use the Advanced Search to refine your search in advance by language, date, type of resource, etc.
• Look at the HOLLIS User Guide for more helpful tips on finding what you need.

The books in the HOLLIS Library Catalog are tagged with subject headings created by the Library of Congress. When you find a useful book in HOLLIS, you can copy its subject headings into a "Starts With / Browse" search to find precise variations on the subject by geography, time period, genre, subtopic, etc. For example, the book Disaster Memorials and Monuments has the subject heading Memorialization. The screenshot below shows some of the many variations of that subject heading, each pointing to a set of book records.

Search limits such as these appear on the right-hand side of the HOLLIS screen when you do a search. Most databases provide similar ways to refine a search.