[Public Services Assistant Emilie Hardman contributed this post about the recently completed digitization of a set of 17th-century maps of Siberia.] This person grew up and became rooted In a bright-blue country, So great that it could not be encircled in flight By nine waves of white-headed cranes Even in nine full years… Traditional poetry Read More

[This post was contributed by William Stoneman, Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library.] John Ward and His Magnificent Collection, edited by Gordon Hollis and published earlier this year by Golden Legend, Inc., is described by Hollis as a second festschrift in honor of Ward, a full 25 years after a first festschrift and his retirement Read More

Finding aids for 12 newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including illustrations for T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, watercolor images of 19th-century Boston theaters, and interviews with psychoanalyst Erik Erikson.

On October 12th, noted biographer Lyndall Gordon will speak at Houghton Library. Her talk, “‘Abyss has no biographer’: Can we risk the Abyss?” will focus on her recently published biography of Emily Dickinson, Lives like loaded guns: Emily Dickinson and her family’s feuds (2010). The book has stirred some controversy by proposing that the poet Read More

Today, Houghton Library introduces a new special collections request system that allows patrons to register and place requests for materials online. This system replaces paper registration and paper forms to request materials to use in the library, and because it will eventually be HCL-wide, will eliminate the need for patrons to register separately at each Read More