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Lamont Library Collections
General Collection
Lamont Library supports the undergraduate curriculum in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to supporting course requirements and undergraduate research needs, the collection reflects a wide variety of student interests in literature, current political affairs, the arts, and the environment. Lamont's holdings tally over 200,000 volumes, including books, serials, periodicals, newspapers, and reference titles. The Henry Weston Farnsworth Room, devoted to non-curricular leisure reading, houses approximately 4,000 eclectic titles.
Lamont Media
Lamont Media holds a major circulating collection of approximately 18,000 titles: books on music, scores, music recordings, spoken word recordings, and visual media. The music materials focus on western music, world music, and jazz while the spoken word material includes poetry and plays. Visual media includes films, documentaries, opera, and musical performances that support and augment the undergraduate curriculum. All materials, with the exception of CD-ROMs, are housed on Level B of Lamont. CD-ROMs are shelved throughout Lamont with the general book collection.
To most effectively search the HOLLIS catalog for holdings information for music media items, use our printed point-of-use guide, "Searching for Musical Works." Media holdings, whether they are music or not, can be pinpointed using HOLLIS Catalog Expanded Search. Staff in Lamont Media (617-495-8730) and Research Services in Lamont on Level B can provide assistance at any time.
Please contact Paul Worster, Multimedia Librarian, at 617-495-8730 or via e-mail with questions about the collections and suggestions for new titles and/or new directions for Lamont Media.
Other music collections at Harvard include the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library (Harvard's primary repository of musical materials), Houghton Library (antiquarian materials); the Harvard Theatre Collection (documents and artifacts for the study of theatre, dance, and opera); the Andover-Harvard Theological Library (hymns and hymnology); and Widener Library (materials related to A.B. Lord's folklore studies).
