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Landscape Institute students have reading privileges at the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural, the Frances Loeb, and the Widener Libraries. They have stack privileges only and are not allowed to borrow books.
Some intructors put books on reserve at the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library and the Frances Loeb Library of the Harvard Design School. Additional reserve books and other materials are located in the Landscape Institute office. Students should have their instructors specify where reserve materials are being held. Students are required to provide a valid form of identification when asking to view reserve materials; it will be held by the reserve desk until the materials are returned.
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Harvard Libraries.
Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library
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 collection began as the personal library of the Arboretum's first director, Charles Sprague Sargent, and has grown over the years to support the work of this internationally known scientific institution. The collection reflects the Arboreteum's early interest in forestry and landscape design, its long-time involvement in plant collecting in Asia, and its post-World War II interest in ornamental horticulture. To support the work of the Landscape Institute the library has been expanding its collection on landscape conservation, design, history, management, and planning. Landscape Institute students are encouraged to use this valuable resource.
The library holdings are accessible through HOLLIS, Harvard University's online library and information system (http://lib.harvard.edu). Titles held in the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library are identified as "Botany:Arboretum JP." For further description of the collection and of the Arnold Arboretum Archives, consult the Library's pages on the Arnold Arboretum website http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/library/library.html).
The Horticultural Library is located in the Hunnewell Administration Building,
125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Phone: 617.522.1086
Fax: 617.524.1418, ATTN Library
Email: hortlib@arnarb.harvard.edu
Frances Loeb Design Library
The Frances Loeb Library supports and enhances the educational programs, curriculum development, and research activities of the Harvard Design School as an integral component of the School's mission to prepare and advance individuals in professional and academic careers concerned with the making of built environments. The Library's strengths (twentieth-century architecture, city and regional planning, American domestic architecture, nineteenth-century U.S. park and cemetery design, and twentieth century landscape design) are supplemented by subject areas that support past and current curriculum needs. Together with the resources distributed throughout other Harvard University Libraries, the Frances Loeb Library provides access to a comprehensive collection documenting the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design. Landscape Institute students have read-only or stack privileges at the Frances Loeb. Proper identification is required for entrance to the library.
Borrowing privileges may be granted to Landscape Institute students for a fee. Students should contact the circulation desk at the library for further information.
The Frances Loeb Library is located at the Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall,
48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Circulation Desk: 617.495.9163
Reference Desk: 617.496.1304
Fax: 617.496.5929
Widener Library
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. The holdings include major research materials in more than 100 languages collected from virtually every country in the world. Of particular note are the collections of Africana, Americana, European local history, Judaica, Latin American studies, Middle Eastern studies, and Slavic studies, and rich collections of materials for the study of Asia, the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, and Greek and Latin antiquity. The collections include significant holdings in linguistics, ancient and modern languages, folklore, economics, history of science and technology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
Landscape Institute students have stack privileges at Widener, which receives a list of the current Landscape Institute students at the beginning of each semester. 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. For further information on the Widener Library, visit http://hcl.harvard.edu/widener/.
Widener is located in Harvard Yard, in the center of Harvard Square.
Access Services: 617.495.2413
Information Desk Line: 617.495.2411
Fax Line: 617.495.0403