Featured series 
Tag: Widener Library
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Campus & Community
‘Do more and do better’
Lawrence Summers, president emeritus, reflects on his time leading the University at the unveiling of his presidential portrait at Widener Library.
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Nation & World
Snatching a culture back from state-sanctioned violence
Binalakshmi Nepram, a Harvard Library Fellow through Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program, has spent the past 15 years fighting the oppression of the nearly 50 million Indigenous people in Manipur, India.
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Campus & Community
It’s back to the stacks
100 library staff return to Harvard’s campus as physical collection access resumes.
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Campus & Community
Explore Widener in all its glory, from your desk or phone
Explore Harvard’s Widener Library, from its marble rotunda to the Loker Reading Room, through a new 360-degree virtual tour.
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Campus & Community
Shining a light on a genius
Architect Julian Abele is responsible for the design of Harvard’s Widener l Library, where his role, until recently, had gone largely unacknowledged.
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Campus & Community
Three lies and lots of truths on campus
We take a tour of Harvard University with Rachel “Rae” Gilchrist ’20, a student who works as tour guide through the College’s Visitor Center.
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Arts & Culture
A luminous vision for Harvard Yard
Artist Teresita Fernández discusses the installation she created for Harvard Yard, “Autumn (… Nothing Personal).”
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Nation & World
Santos receives 2017 Great Negotiator Award
Colombian President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos was honored with Harvard Law School’s 2017 Great Negotiator Award for his work to end his country’s 52-year civil war.
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Arts & Culture
A ‘Catalogue’ of dance
William Forsythe dance work will be the first live performance at Harvard’s Widener Library.
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Campus & Community
First you see, then you see again
See Harvard through a collection of double exposure images, where iconic elements of the University campus overlap and converge in surprising ways.
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Campus & Community
Welcoming the Class of 2020
Harvard President Drew Faust welcomed the College’s new crop of undergraduates during Freshman Convocation on Tuesday, urging them to embrace Veritas, with an eye toward inclusion and diversity, a goal of discovery, an openness to change, and a readiness to question assumptions and take chances.
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Campus & Community
Taking the stairs
Stairways inhabit the spaces where we live and work. Whether they’re tucked into cavities in the wall or suspended in grand ceremonial style for all to see, we travel along their treads.
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Campus & Community
All told in gold
While Harvard is known for its trademark crimson, it’s the flourishes of amber and suntanned illuminations scattered across campus that surprise and resonate.
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Campus & Community
Ode to a venerable library
Narrated by John Lithgow ’67, this visual love letter to libraries celebrates books and those who watch over them while marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard’s flagship library.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s ‘haunted’ Houses
A tour of Harvard’s “haunted” Houses, in advance of Halloween.
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Campus & Community
Libraries coming together
Sarah Thomas, the new vice president of the Harvard Library, will now also oversee the libraries of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The appointment signals a move toward a more unified and coordinated library system.
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Nation & World
Move over, Gutenberg
After months of construction, a “video capture studio” is near completion at Widener Library as part of Harvard’s commitment to exploring, innovating, experimenting, and leading change in how faculty members teach and students learn.
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Arts & Culture
Zines were the scene
Two Harvard undergrad spent the summer at Widener Library working with a newly acquired collection of zines, the self-published, self-distributed counterculture voices of the 1980s and early ’90s.
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Arts & Culture
Revolutionary discovery
Harvard’s Houghton Library recently uncovered documents from 1767 that foreshadow the American Revolution: eight sheets of signatures — more than 650 in all — protesting Colonial taxation.
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Arts & Culture
Writing as discovery
Professor Jill Lepore delivered the third and final presentation in Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds’ book talks in the Widener Library rotunda. The series was designed to bring students and faculty together outside of the classroom.
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Campus & Community
New support for nursing mothers
Harvard has had lactation rooms on both the Cambridge and Harvard Longwood campuses for more than a decade. It most recently added two additional rooms and updated three others. The most recent room opened in Widener Library.
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Campus & Community
A milestone for juniors
Welcoming the parents of the Class of 2014 in Sanders Theatre during Junior Parents Weekend, President Drew Faust spoke of the importance of something that people may strive to avoid: the risk of failure.
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Campus & Community
Faculty author series at Widener
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds is sponsoring a book talk series featuring Professors John Dowling, Jennifer Hochschild, and Jill Lepore.
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Arts & Culture
At his own speed
Artist David Michalek, creator of “Slow Dancing,” a temporary installation on the façade of Widener Library, discussed the evolution of his work during a talk at Boylston Hall.
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Campus & Community
Helping scholars find library nooks
Ask any graduate student: Sometimes the right work ethic depends on snaring the perfect study space. Ann-Marie Costa, along with a team of Widener Library and Berkman Center staff, developed an online solution that simplified the process of booking carrels.
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Campus & Community
Taking the baton
When Harvard admits its freshman class each April, it invites new students to a weekend’s immersion in College life. Here’s how the experience changed a life.
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Science & Tech
A match of climate and history
Professor Michael McCormick has been working with tree-ring experts, bringing the perspective of long-ago writings to understanding environmental conditions.
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Campus & Community
Secret history
FreeThink@Harvard is a new interactive e-learning series sponsored by the Dean of Students Office at Harvard Extension School. Each discussion is led by Harvard faculty and includes a classroom chat with a crowd of Harvard alumni, students, faculty, and staff that is also streamed online.
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Campus & Community
The art of architecture
Harvard’s campus reflects three centuries of architectural history, and a practiced intimacy that draws people together.
