Table of Contents

To The Faculty

Introduction

1: Academic Calendar

2: Responsibilities of Instructors

3: Course Administration

4: Examinations

5: Grades

6: Addressing Student Problems

7: Teaching Resources

8: FAS Directory

Harvard University Library System

Harvard’s library system, which dates from 1638, is the oldest library in the US and the largest academic library in the world. With more than 16 million books and a burgeoning number of digital objects and electronic resources, the collections are housed in more than 70 libraries, most of which are located in Cambridge and Boston. Of these collections, more than half are in the purview of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, specifically in the Harvard College Library.

Harvard College Library

www.hcl.harvard.edu

The Harvard College Library (HCL) is actually a system of libraries that support the teaching and research activities of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the University, and the larger scholarly community. Librarians throughout the HCL libraries offer a variety of services to users: assistance at reference desks, individual consultations by appointment, IM reference service, and course-related research instruction. They compose research guides on almost every subject offered in the College and make them available online at www.hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides.

In addition to the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library—which is the University’s flagship—HCL includes:

Harvard’s Graduate and Professional Schools

Each of Harvard’s graduate and professional faculties supports additional significant libraries. These include:

Additional Collections

Harvard’s library system also includes numerous departmental and special libraries within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a number of additional and affiliated collections, ranging from the Harvard University Archives, located in the Pusey Library building, to the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, DC. For a complete directory of Harvard libraries and websites, visit lib.harvard.edu/libraries.

Digital Collections

Harvard offers a growing number of subject-specific, web-accessible collections, including photographic collections, documents, musical scores, prints, drawings, historical maps, books, legal transcripts, diaries, manuscripts, and more. To survey these collections—many of which were developed with support, infrastructure, and expertise provided by Harvard’s Library Digital Initiative—visit digitalcollections.harvard.edu.

Harvard College Library Research and Instructional Services

hcl.harvard.edu/research/for_instructors/

Librarians within each of the Harvard College libraries offer a variety of services designed to help instructors assist their students in the effective use of library resourses. In addition, each FAS department is associated with a library liaison, a reference librarian dedicated to assisting faculty, staff, and students with research-related matters. Library liaisons create and teach library-related classes, provide one-on-one consultation, write course research guides, assist with content for course websites, and provide general reference services to the department.

Library Websites Harvard Libraries

lib.harvard.edu

A major starting point for research is the “Harvard Libraries” portal which is an online gateway to the library resources of Harvard University. The site serves as an important research tool for Harvard’s current students, faculty, staff, and researchers who hold HUIDs and PINs. Through E-Research @ Harvard Libraries, it provides access to electronic resources and journals licensed by the Harvard libraries, as well as links to all of the Harvard library catalogs. It also points to research guides compiled by the libraries across campus and provides practical information on each of the more than 80 libraries that form the Harvard system.

Most of Harvard’s libraries also have developed their own websites, which are full of valuable links and information covering their areas of specialty.

HOLLIS Discovery System
discovery.lib.harvard.edu

HOLLIS offers users a simple, intuitive interface for discovering library resources in significant new ways. The new HOLLIS is “a discovery environment” and not just a catalog. Located at http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu, HOLLIS now reflects a new generation of creative thinking about searching on the web as it differs from searches in traditional library catalogs. As users experiment with the new system, the older version—dubbed “HOLLIS Classic”—remains in place, continuously providing traditional search methods at http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu. Both can be accessed from the Harvard Libraries portal at http://lib.harvard.edu. Using a HUID and PIN, members of the Harvard community are able to use HOLLIS to renew, hold, or recall items; to view a list of items checked out; and to check fines online.

E-Research @ Harvard Libraries
e-research.lib.harvard.edu

E-Research @ Harvard Libraries is an online library service that provides access for Harvard users to over 8,000 electronic resources, 49,000 journals, and 300,000 e-books. E-Research also allows users to store and manage their search results.

Using E-Research, users can:

In order to achieve maximum benefit from E-Research @ Harvard Libraries and to access all of Harvard’s licensed e-resources, Harvard users should log in, using Harvard IDs and PINs, at the beginning of each session.

hcl.harvard.edu−A Research Tool for Library Users
hcl.harvard.edu

This user-friendly site is a complement to the Harvard Libraries portal and offers quick access to a variety of research tools like research guides, research contacts, online forms, “Ask Us” IM reference service, and information about hours, admittance and borrowing, copying and scanning services, exhibitions and events, services for persons with disabilities, and more.