HCL Libraries
There are over 80 libraries at Harvard that comprise the Harvard library system, with combined holdings of over 16 million items. More than 11 million of those items are part of the collection of a centrally administered system within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that is referred to as the Harvard College Library (HCL) and includes the libraries and special units below. See the Harvard Libraries site for a complete listing of all University libraries.
- Cabot Science Library
General sciences; mathematics, earth, and planetary sciences - Fine Arts Library
Western and non-Western art and architecture from antiquity to the present - Fung Library
Government and international studies - Harvard Film Archive
Fine foreign, art, and historical films and film ephemera - Harvard Map Collection
Maps, atlases, gazetteers, GIS resources - Harvard-Yenching Library
East Asian Studies, in both East Asian and European languages - Houghton Library
Primary repository for Harvard's rare books and manuscripts - Lamont Library
General undergraduate collection, music, multimedia, and government information from around the world - Loeb Music Library
Books, scores, recordings, Archive of World Music, extensive Mozart archive, Audio Preservation Studio - Quad Library
Convenient study space in Radcliffe Quadrangle - Tozzer Library
Anthropology and all subfields - Widener Library
Social sciences, humanities, collections in over 100 languages
