Selected Catalogs

Selected Catalogs. An extremely efficient and highly effective strategy when beginning a research project is to use a catalog to quickly locate potentially useful materials contained in a library's collection, including books, journals, newspapers, photographs, art, music, movies, manuscripts, personal papers and online databases. Pretty much anything the library owns, licenses, or considers part of its collection. A catalog, except in rare circumstances, does not allow you to search the contents of the materials. The following are selected Harvard University catalogs as well as catalogs of collections beyond Harvard. See Other Harvard Catalogs for information about additional useful Harvard catalogs. See Finding Materials at Harvard for a brief but excellent guide to finding materials at the 90+ Harvard University libraries.

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HOLLIS Catalog

HOLLIS Catalog
HOLLIS Catalog Reference Guide
HOLLIS Catalog Features
HOLLIS Catalog Tips

Use the HOLLIS Catalog to find resources available at Harvard University libraries, including the Law School Library. To assist you, information about HOLLIS Features, as well 10 Tips for using the HOLLIS Catalog in your research, are available. Use your Harvard University ID and PIN numbers to login to HOLLIS and locate information about Your Account such as what books you have checked out and any overdue fines, as well as information about connecting to HOLLIS using EndNote. The HOLLIS Catalog Reference Guide provides detailed information on using the HOLLIS Catalog system.

WorldCat

WorldCat

Use WorldCat to verify citations of items not found in HOLLIS Catalog, to find a local library which has an item, or to provide accurate citations for interlibrary loan requests. WorldCat includes over 40 million catalog records and holdings from over 12,000 libraries worldwide. (Harvard University ID and PIN required.)

British Library Catalogues

British Library Integrated Catalogue
British Library Catalogues

The British Library Integrated Catalogue is the main catalogue of the British Library containing records for over 12 million books, serials, printed music and maps. British Library Catalogues provides a listing of several additional catalogues for special materials which supplement the Integrated Catalogue.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is a finding tool for both historical and current Federal publications. CGP includes descriptive records and provides direct links to those that are available online. Search by authoring agency, title, subject and general keyword.

Harvard Geospatial Library

Harvard Geospatial Library

The Harvard Geospatial Library offers search tools for finding geographic data, GIS data for download, and on-line geographic data exploration tools.

Library of Congress Catalog

Library of Congress Catalog

The Library of Congress serves as the research arm of the United States Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts.

Lib-Web-Cats

Lib-Web-Cats

Lib-Web-Cats is directory of libraries worldwide. Each listing includes links to the library's web site and online catalog. Other information available includes the geographic location, address, library type, current and previous library automation systems used, and the size of the library's collection.

NELLCO Member Catalogs

NELLCO Member Catalogs

Use the NELLCO Member Catalogs links to search the catalogs of such law libraries as those of Boston University, Columbia, NYU, Social Law and Yale. The New England Law Library Consortium is a non-profit corporation composed of academic, private non-profit, and government law libraries.

OASIS: Online Archival Search Information System

OASIS: Online Archival Search Information System

The OASIS: Online Archival Search Information System allows users to search a small but growing percentage of the finding aids for archival and manuscript materials found at Harvard University and Radcliffe Institute. There are over forty archival and manuscript repositories at Harvard and Radcliffe, all specializing in differing, though sometimes overlapping, subject areas.

VIA: Visual Information Access

VIA: Visual Information Access

VIA: Visual Information Access is a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard University and Radcliffe Institute. VIA includes information about slides, photographs, portraits, objects and artifacts in the University's libraries, museums and archives. Many VIA records include a digitized image.

Compiled and edited by Michael Jimenez.