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Widener Library Review
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Widener Library
- Address: Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA | Map It
- Phone: 617/495-2411
- hcl.harvard.edu/widener
Fodor's Review:
Harvard University's Harry Elkins Widener Library was named for a young book lover who went down with the Titanic. (It's said that Widener went back to his stateroom to retrieve a first edition of Roger Bacon's Essays.) Holding more than 15 million volumes in more than 90 libraries around the world, the Harvard University Library system is second in size in the United States only to the Library of Congress, and Widener Library itself is one of the world's largest individual book repositories. Sixty-five miles of bookshelves snake around six stories above and four stories belowground. The imposing neoclassical structure was designed by the nation's first major African-American architect, Julian Abele. The library isn't open to the public; people with a "scholarly need" can apply for admission at the privileges office inside.
- Metro: Harvard
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