Widener Library, University library in Cambridge, United States
The central library building of Harvard University contains 91 kilometers of bookshelves with a capacity for 4.6 million volumes across ten floors.
Eleanor Elkins Widener funded the construction of this memorial library after her son Harry perished during the Titanic disaster in 1912.
The library houses substantial collections in humanities and social sciences, including materials in more than one hundred different languages worldwide.
Students and faculty members can directly access the general collection stacks without requesting staff assistance during regular operating hours.
The library preserves one of the rare complete Gutenberg Bibles in existence, which survived an attempted theft in 1969.
Location: Massachusetts
Inception: 1915
Part of: Harvard Library
Website: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener
GPS coordinates: 42.37370,-71.11640
Latest update: May 27, 2025 06:54
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