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	Widener Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Widener Library, which opened with a solemn ceremony on June 24, 1915, commemorates Harry Elkins Widener (born January 3, 1885 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania), a 1907 Harvard graduate, who was a book collector and victim of the Titanic disaster.
		The library was designed by Horace Trumbauer and Associates, the architect of many private houses for the intertwined Elkins and Widener families of Philadelphia included the renowned Lynnewood Hall.
		According to a campus legend, under the terms of the Widener family donation, the exterior of the library is never to be altered, or else ownership of the building reverts to the city of Cambridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Widener_Library (467 words)

	Mr Harry Elkins Widener
		Mr Harry Elkins Widener, 27, was born on January 3, 1885 the son of George and Eleanor Widener he lived in Elkins Park, PA. Harry studied at Hill School, a private establishment in Pottstown, PA; graduating in 1903 he left to study at Harvard (graduated 1907).
		Because she stipulated that the new library could not be remodeled ('not a brick, stone, or piece of mortar shall be changed'), in order to build a breezeway between Widener and Houghton Library the architects had to run it out the window to do it legally.
		As the central library of the larger entity known as the Harvard College Library, which is the library of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it houses the collections of literature and history, folklore, linguistics, economics, sociology, philosophy, and psychology.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /biography/317 (934 words)

	Harry Elkins Widener - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was the son of George Dunton Widener (1861-1912) and Eleanor Elkins Widener and the grandson of the extremely wealthy entrepreneur, Peter A. Widener (1834-1915).
		A graduate of Harvard University, its Widener Library, opened on Commencement Day 1915, is named in Harry Elkins Widener's memory based on a posthumous bequest from his widowed mother.
		Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania is also named after the prominent Widener family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Elkins_Widener (198 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Widener Library
		The library was designed by Horace Trumbauer and Associates, the architect of many private houses for the intertwined Elkins and Widener families of Philadelphia.
		Eleanor Elkins Widener had the library constructed in 1915 in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener, who perished aboard the Titanic and was himself an enthusiastic book-collector.
		In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.” She might have added, for good measure, that the lack of libraries, their wilful neglect, is a sign of intellectual and spiritual impoverishment, a culture that is a prisoner of the crassest instrumentalities.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Widener-Library (1214 words)

	Widener Library - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Widener Library, which opened in 1915, is named after Harry Elkins Widener (born January 3, 1885 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania), a 1907 Harvard graduate, who was a book collector and victim of the Titanic disaster.
		There is an untrue urban myth at Harvard that in order to prevent what befell Widener from happening to another student, all students of Harvard College are required to prove that they can swim before they are allowed to graduate as is actually the case at Cornell and Stanford.
		Under the terms of the Widener family donation, the exterior of the library is never to be altered, or else ownership of the building reverts to the city of Cambridge.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Widener_Library (344 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Widener Library renovations: On time, on budget
		Widener Library is a world within itself where staff, faculty, and students mingle, study, and work year-round.
		Those objectives, says Cline, have resulted in a library that's as relevant and user-friendly for the 21st century scholar as it was for scholars at the beginning of the 20th.
		In 1915, state-of-the-art library construction called for lots of air and light; by the end of the 20th century, preservationists knew that they were public enemies one and two for the long-term safety of old books.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/09.30/13-widener.html (1522 words)

	Harvard Libraries: Widener Library
		Widener Library is open to all individuals who possess a current Harvard ID. Visiting researchers may apply for access at the Privileges Office.
		Widener Library interlibrary loan privileges are extended to current affiliates of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
		Widener Library is located in Harvard Yard across the Tercentenary Theater from Memorial Church.
	lib.harvard.edu /libraries/0074FULL.html (272 words)

	History - Widener Library - Harvard College Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Widener fulfilled her son's dream by building a facility of monumental proportions, with over 50 miles of shelves and the capacity to hold over three million volumes.
		The library opened in 1915, but Harvard's collections continued to grow at an astounding rate and by the late 1930s, Widener's shelves were filled to capacity.
		Widener Library ushered in the new millennium in the midst of its greatest change since opening in 1915.
	hcl.harvard.edu /libraries/widener/history.html (333 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Widener Library, Harvard’s premier library, is surely one of the most imposing memorials any mother has constructed for a lost child.
		The Alexandrian fantasy, as it is known, after the great library, founded by Ptolemy II in 286 BC in Alexandria, and which, it is said, took six months to burn, is perhaps the most extraordinary way of expressing human aspiration; and its absence is a sure sign that humanity is moribund.
		Germaine Greer once wrote of the experience of being in a library that “Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040201/asp/opinion/story_2822451.asp (1160 words)

	A Modest Tribute to Widener Library
		library is never--for lovers of the written word--simply a place for conserving or storing books but rather a sort of living creature, with a personality and even moods which we should understand and learn to live with.
		Widener Library is the setting of endless vigils and toils, but it is also the pleasure dome for that semblance of idleness from which real creativity flows.
		Widener Library means countless and unlimited opportunities for adventure and excitement, one of them the ability to check on the spur of the moment the viability of any wild idea that may cross one's mind.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~fdo/publications/essays/marq.htm (1413 words)

	Arnold Arboretum - Landscape Institute - Policies & Forms
		The Horticultural Library of the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain is a non-circulating research collection of over 40,000 volumes containing both monographs and journals in the fields of botany, horticulture, floras, forestry, landscape design, and taxonomy.
		The Widener Library holds one of the world's most comprehensive research collections in the humanities and social sciences, the result of deliberate, systematic, forward-looking acquisitions amassed over hundreds of years, a process that today remains a vital part of the library's mission.
		Students are required to check in at the permissions desk when entering the library, at which time s/he receives a visitor's pass to the library that will also allow access to other affiliated libraries on the day of their visit.
	www.arboretum.harvard.edu /programs/ld/library.html (698 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Widener Library Bridge Coming Down
		As such, when Widener was connected to Houghton in 1942, the bridge had to be constructed through a preexisting window, forming one of Harvard’s most unusual architectural structures.
		The library was named after her son, a member of the Class of 1907, who bequeathed his prized book collection the University following his death on the Titanic.
		Widener’s altruism, however, came with a few peculiar conditions, including a provision permitting her “to do grading and landscape work” on the grounds of the new library.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=350118 (610 words)

	Widener Stacks Renovation
		Widener is Harvard's largest library, and was constructed with the most advanced systems for its time.
		Today, we know that the library's large, opening windows lead to the deterioration of the collection, and the open steel structure supporting 10 levels of stacks would have lead to a catastrophic loss in the event of a fire.
		The goal of the Widener Stacks Renovation project was to provide a long-term solution to protect the collection and to reorganize the existing offices and supporting areas to increase the efficiency of the space.
	www.leekennedy.com /Precon/Widener.htm (301 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Widener wins library design award
		Widener Library has been selected by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) to receive the 2005 AIA/ALA Library Building Award.
		One of eight winners for 2005, Widener was chosen for the design of its recently concluded five-year renovation project, which involved upgrading and modernizing the building's infrastructure and its original 10-floor self-supporting stack structure.
		The Library Building Award, designed to encourage excellence in the architectural design and planning of libraries, may be given for new buildings, additions, renovations, restorations, conversion to library use, and interior redesign and refurbishing.
	www.hno.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/04.28/12-widener.html (260 words)

	Widener Library: Youthful at the Core - Harvard Magazine (January-February 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is one of two nearly identical reading rooms built within the perimeter of the stacks in the former light courts on either side of the rotunda at the center of the building--grand spaces and a valuable enhancement to the building Mrs.
		Any library patron may use Phillips, and will appreciate the room's quiet and agreeable atmosphere, but it is specifically a "controlled" reading room, where books that are not housed in the open stacks and do not circulate--usually, valuable books--may be used under the hawk eye of a librarian.
		Library staff promise they will cheerfully bring all that is requested so that the Bergenser will not be wholly denied the opportunity for serendipitous discoveries that browsing the stacks allows--and will have a place to sit while making them.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/010227.html (951 words)

	Widener Library Thirty Years Later
		In Widener, thirty years later, it is harder to integrate all the various forms of research and material; yet there is more of an absolute need to do so.
		Widener, coupled with the Harvard College and Harvard University libraries is one of the five or six greatest libraries in the world.
		Widener and the College Libraries are priceless, their contents irreplaceable.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~fdo/publications/essays/engell.htm (2250 words)

	75th Anniversary - Residential Designs by the Horace Trumbauer Architectural Firm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Widener's former mansion at the corner of Broad and Girard Streets in North Philadelphia into the Josephine H. Widener Memorial Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
		Widener summered at Miramar with her second husband Alexander Hamilton Rice, the son of a former Massachusetts governor.
		She met Rice in 1915 at the dedication of Harvard University's Widener Library, which she had commissioned from Trumbauer to memorialize her son, Harry Elkins Widener, who died on the Titanic in 1912.
	libwww.library.phila.gov /75th/residential.htm (1524 words)

	Chronicle Careers: 7/18/2005: Stacks' Appeal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I have heard that one of the rites of passage for undergraduates at Harvard University is to have sex in stacks of the vast, labyrinthine Widener Library.
		I quickly found the book in another area of the same library, and discovered a sequence of pages that purported to show that Poe was suffering from a disorder that affected only one hemisphere of his brain and that revealed itself in the asymmetry of his face.
		Library administrators have had to make hard choices as costs have risen, their missions have expanded, and their budgets have failed to keep pace.
	chronicle.com /jobs/2005/07/2005071801c.htm (1990 words)

	Widener University School of Law Library
		Widener University's online catalog, accessible through the Internet, includes the library collections of the Legal Information Centers on both the Wilmington and Harrisburg campuses, as well as the Wolfgram Memorial Library on the Chester campus.
		This is the broadest way to search the catalog and the best way if you are not sure of an exact title or author, but have a good idea of some possible words that may appear in the title, subject or contents notes of the item record.
		Once you find the item you want in the online catalog and see that it is located in one of the other Widener libraries, click on one of the "Request" buttons located in the center at either the top or the bottom of the screen.
	www.law.widener.edu /Law-Library/new/research/libcat_guide.shtml (1213 words)

	Harvard Summer School: Institute for English Language Programs: Widener Library
		The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, a 320,000-square-foot beaux-arts brick building, is an intellectual and architectural landmark on the Harvard campus.
		Because Widener’s donation stipulated that exterior of the library never be changed, the designers were charged with finding innovative ways to increase the usable space within the footprint of the building.
		Widener Library is the largest academic library in the world, housing more than 3 million volumes on 57 miles of bookshelves.
	www.dce.harvard.edu /iel/summer/2006/credit.jsp (323 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Widener Library Begins Sunday Afternoon Hours
		Although the library was not particularly full yesterday, staff members said the numbers were typical for a Saturday early in the school term.
		Library staff members working in the building yesterday said they either work there on other days or work in other University libraries.
		And students studying in the library yesterdaysaid the new hours were a great conveniencebecause Widener has resources that cannot be foundin the other Harvard libraries.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=272173 (386 words)

	Library Preservation at Harvard: Harvard College Library Conservation Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The overarching goal of the Library's conservation program is to improve the condition of the research collections so that they can sustain continued use.
		In addition to repairing over 20,000 volumes from the Widener collections each year, staff will treat materials that cannot be handled in the smaller workshops established in Fine Arts, Tozzer, Cabot and other College libraries.
		One is the decision to proceed with the Widener Stacks Renovation Project, which will result in a much better controlled environment for housing the collections.
	preserve.harvard.edu /news/conservation/widenerlab.html (633 words)

	Andover-Harvard Library - Collection Strengths - Protestant Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Works on all aspects of Protestantism are collected in depth at Andover-Harvard Theological Library, while the major collections in medieval and non-Protestant church history are maintained at Widener Library.
		The library also collects in some depth works on denominations whose materials are not available elsewhere in New England, i.e., Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Reformed Church publications.
		Widener Library is also very strong in nineteenth- and twentieth-century materials for areas that are now called developing nations, simply because Widener's historical collections are for the most part unrivaled.
	www.hds.harvard.edu /library/collections/strengths/protestant_christianity.html (645 words)

	Harvard University: Widener Library Conservation Services: Institutional Profile
		Widener houses 35 million volumes in the humanities and social sciences.
		During 1991-92, the staff conducted its first en masse treatment of a collection of 12,000 Widener volumes that were being re-catalogued in preparation for shipment to the Harvard Depository, the off-site storage repository.
		Commercial library binding is not appropriate because it is made to handle the perfectly square machine-made text blocks of twentieth century technology.
	aic.stanford.edu /sg/bpg/annual/v11/bp11-12.html (1130 words)

	Amazon.ca: Library: Books: Matthew Battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Vatican Library built by Pope Nicholas V set the standard during the Renaissance, and the one built by the Jews in the Vilna ghetto during WWII showed the importance of books to a community under siege.
		Being a library science graduate student, I was eager to read this book, thinking it would be an inspiring trip through the ages regarding my chosen field, so I was somewhat disappointed by what I found to be fairly dry reading.
		His focus is on the changing role of the library as an intellectual institution, and he explains how someone who shapes a gathering of books, through the selections she makes and the manner of their presentation, is really the author of that collection.
	www.amazon.ca /Library-Matthew-Battles/dp/0393325644 (1939 words)

	HLS Library: Admission to the Library
		The Harvard Law School Library is a private research facility that exists primarily to support the educational and research needs of the Harvard Law School faculty, staff and students and, secondarily, the needs of the Harvard University community.
		The Library is obligated by law to provide free access to these documents, which may be maintained and technically supported on the Internet or in other electronic formats, as well as held by the Library in paper or microformat.
		The libraries of the Harvard College Library are research institutions for the use of Harvard students, faculty, staff, and visiting researchers.
	www.law.harvard.edu /library/about/admissions/index.php (983 words)

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