Editing Widener Library (section)

==Sources and further reading==

'''Further reading'''
{{refbegin}}
* {{rma|tag=B|reference={{cite book | title=Widener: Biography of a Library
|year = 2004 |publisher=Harvard College Library, 2004
|last=Battles |first=Matthew |url=https://archive.org/details/widenerbiography00batt
| url-access=registration
| page=[https://archive.org/details/widenerbiography00batt/page/42 42]
|isbn=978-0-674-01668-2
}} }}

{{refend}}

'''Other sources cited'''
{{Reflist|28em|refs=

{{refn|name=arms|{{cite magazine
|title = At 100, Widener Opens Its Arms Wider
|date=June 24, 2015|magazine=Harvard Magazine|last=Zhang |first=Zara
|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/06/at-100-widener-opens-its-arms-wider
}}}}

{{refn|name=artillery|{{cite news
|title=New field piece arrives{{snd}}155 mm. G. P. F. Rifle Now In Battery In Front of Widener
|date=September 23, 1919 <!--no writer-->
|work=Harvard Crimson
}} }}

{{refn|name=buck|{{cite book
|title=Libraries & universities: addresses and reports
|last=Buck|first=Paul Herman|publisher= Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
|year=1964|page=50|isbn=9780674530508|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6AlP1vz267AC&pg=PA50
|editor-last=Williams|editor-first=Edwin E.
}} }}

{{refn|name=burke|{{cite report
|title=Harvard University Library. Weissman Preservation Center. Library Preservation at Harvard. Bookish fires: the legacy of fire in the Harvard libraries
|last=Burke|first=Sarah K.
|url=https://sarahburkecahalan.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bookish_fires.pdf
}} }}

{{refn|name=caper|{{cite magazine
|magazine=Harvard Magazine|title=The Gutenberg Caper|last=Bond|first=W.H.|date=March{{endash}}April 1986|pages=42–48
}} }}

{{refn|name=class1898|{{cite book
|url=https://archive.org/stream/1898report02harvuoft#page/158/mode/2up
|title= Harvard Class of 1898. Report 2
|publisher= Harvard University|year=1907
}}}}

{{refn|name=calder|{{cite news
|title=Verdict Nearing In 'Slasher' Trial|work=Harvard Crimson|first=Mari M. |last=Calder|date=February 28, 1996
|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1996/2/28/verdict-nearing-in-slasher-trial-pthe/
}}}}

{{refn|name=observed|{{cite book
|last= Bethell|first=John T.|title=Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century
|url=https://archive.org/details/harvardobservedi00beth|url-access= registration|page= [https://archive.org/details/harvardobservedi00beth/page/72 72]|year=1998|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37733-2
}}}}

{{refn|name=colson|{{cite news
|first=Elizabeth|last= Colson|title=Anthropology and a Lifetime of Observation
|url=http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt7w10088w&brand=calisphere
|publisher=Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley|year=2002
}}
(Oral history conducted in 2000–2001 by Suzanne Riess.)
}}

{{refn|name=bentinck1980|{{cite book
|author=William Bentinck-Smith|author-link=William Bentinck-Smith |publisher=Harvard College Library
|title="... a Memorial to My Dear Son": Some Reflec{{shy}}tions on 65 Years of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rLWxGQAACAAJ |year=1980
}} }}

{{refn|name=deficit|
{{cite news
|date= December 4, 1965<!--no writer--> |title=Widener Space Deficit Reaching Danger Point|work=Harvard Crimson
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1965/12/4/widener-space-deficit-reaching-danger-point
}}
* {{cite news
|date=November 30, 1967 <!--no writer--> |title=Stop-Gap Measures Ease Pinch in Widener Library|work=Harvard Crimson
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1967/11/30/stop-gap-measures-ease-pinch-in-widener/
}}
}}

{{refn|name=mooney|{{cite journal
|last=Mooney | first=Carolyn J. |title=Swim or Sink|journal=Chronicle of Higher Educa{{shy}}tion
|date=October 12, 1994|pages=A35–A36
}} }}

{{refn|name=legends|
{{cite news
|title=The First Abridged Dictionary of Harvard Myths|work=The Harvard Independent
|date=December 9, 1993 |pages=10–11 |last=Mann|first=Elizabeth
}}
* {{cite news
|work=Harvard Gazette |title=The Widener Memorial Room|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/04/the-widener-memorial-room
|publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College|last=Ireland|first=Corydon|date=April 5, 2012
}}
}}<!--<<end refn-->

{{refn|name=crime_wolfe|{{cite news
|title=Thomas Wolfe at Harvard: Damned Soul in Widener|date=October 18, 1958 |work=Harvard Crimson<!--no author-->
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1958/10/18/thomas-wolfe-at-harvard-damned-soul
}} }}

{{refn|name=potier|{{cite news | title=Widener Library renova{{shy}}tions: On time, on budget
|first= Beth |last= Potier | work=Harvard Gazette |date=September 30, 2004
|url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/09.30/13-widener.html
}} }}

{{refn|name=weds| {{citation | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/10/07/105041887.pdf
|title= Explorer Rice Weds Mrs. G. D. Widener{{snd}}Law Requiring Five Days' Delay After Securing License Waived by a Court Order{{snd}}Plans for Secrecy Fail{{snd}}Bishop Lawrence Officiates at Ceremony in Emmanuel Church Vestry Witnessed by Twelve Persons| work=New York Times | date=October 7, 1915 }} }}

{{refn|name=dienstag|{{cite news
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/5/3/widener-reading-room-reopens-the-penultimate
|title=Widener Reading Room Reopens|last=Dienstag|first=John|date=May 3, 2004|work=Harvard Crimson
}} }}

{{refn|name=divinity|{{cite book
|url=http://library.hds.harvard.edu/exhibits/hds-20th-century/new-library
|title=Harvard Divinity School. Andover-Harvard Theological Library. The New Library
|year=2016| publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
}} }}

{{refn|name=grace|{{cite news
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19690821&id=KUtSAAAAIBAJ&pg=7292,611808
|title=Cat Burglar Steals Bible Before Fall From Grace|work=St. Petersburg Times|date=August 21, 1969|page=2-A
}} }}

{{refn|name=kent|{{cite book
|title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oprd7AefXFwC&pg=PA318
|volume=19|year=1976|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-8247-2019-3|page=318|editor1-last=Kent |editor1-first=A.
|editor2-last=Lancour |editor2-first=Harold |editor3-last=Daily|editor3-first=Jay E. |editor4-last=Nasri |editor4-first= W.Z.| display-editors = 3
}}}}

{{refn|name=rolbein |{{cite news
|title=Deep in the stacks: Besides 3.5 million books, Harvard's Widener Library harbors scholars, thieves, eccentrics and a tale or two
|first=Seth |last=Rolbein |work=The Boston Globe Magazine |date=April 13, 1997 |page=14
}} }}

{{refn|name=transcript|{{cite news |author=<!--no byline-->
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19150624&id=GzknAAAAIBAJ&pg=6483,4969905
|date = June 24, 1915 | work=Boston Evening Transcript | page=2
|title= Harvard Commencement. Widener Is Dedicated – Senator Lodge Makes the Speech of Presenta{{shy}}tion{{snd}}President Lowell Accepts Gift for Harvard{{snd}}In Presence of Many Distinguished Guests{{snd}}Mrs. Widener, Donor, Delivers the Keys{{snd}}Bishop Lawrence<!--<<would be nice to link Lawrence but there's a technical problem--> in Benedic{{shy}}tion and Prayer{{snd}}Exercises are in Library Memorial Room{{snd}}Univer{{shy}}sity Marshal Warren Is in Charge
}} }}

{{refn|name=near_best|{{cite news|work=Harvard Crimson
|title=Widener Gutenberg Bible Near Best – Outstanding Specimen In Harvard Scarce Volume Collec{{shy}}tion
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1949/11/10/widener-gutenberg-bible-near-best-pthe
|date=November 10, 1949 <!--no writer given-->
}} }}

{{refn|name=dies_paris| {{citation
| title=Mrs. A. H. Rice Dies in a Paris Store{{snd}}New York and Newport Society Woman, Wife of Explorer, Noted for Philanthropy{{snd}}A Survivor of Titanic{{snd}}Lost First Husband and Son in Disaster{{snd}}Gave Library to Harvard Univer{{shy}}sity
| work=New York Times |date=July 14, 1937}} }}

{{refn|name=metcalf1980|{{cite book
|first=Keyes DeWitt |last=Metcalf |author-link=Keyes Metcalf |year=1980 |publisher=Readex Books
|title=Random Recollections of an Anachronism or Seventy-Five Years of Library Work|url=https://archive.org/details/randomrecollecti00metc |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/randomrecollecti00metc/page/264 264]–65
|isbn=9780918414021 }} }}

{{refn|name=metcalf1988|{{cite book
|title=My Harvard Library years, 1937–1955: A sequel to Random recollections of an anachronism
|first=Keyes DeWitt |last=Metcalf |author-link=Keyes Metcalf |year=1988 |publisher=Harvard College Library{{nbsp}}/ Harvard University Press
|editor-last=Williams|editor-first=Edwin E. |pages=24–30
}} }}

{{refn|name=metcalf1965|{{cite book
|last=Metcalf|first=Keyes DeWitt |author-link=Keyes Metcalf |title=Planning academic and research library buildings
|publisher=McGraw-Hill|url=https://archive.org/details/planningacademic0000metc|url-access=registration|year=1965
|isbn=9780070416574 }} }}

{{refn|name=rotunda| {{cite web | title = The Memo{{shy}}rial Library. The Rotunda
| author = Harvard College Library | date = 2009 |access-date = 2014-05-15
| website= History of the Harry Elkins Widener Memo{{shy}}rial Collec{{shy}}tion
| publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
| url=http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/widener/library/5_5.cfm
}} }}

{{refn|name=newpusey|{{cite news
|title=The New Pusey Library: Yard Beautification|work=Harvard Crimson
|first=Nicholas|last=Lemann|date= March 26, 1973
}}}}

{{refn|name=bunting|{{cite book
|author=Bainbridge Bunting |editor=Margaret Henderson Floyd
|title=Harvard: An Architectural History
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlaE3-XfmJwC&pg=PA152
|year=1985 |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard Univer{{shy}}sity Press
|isbn=978-0-674-37291-7 |pages=152–57
}} }}

{{refn|name=hearst|{{cite web
|website=Encyclo{{shy}}paedia Britannica | title=William Randolph Hearst|access-date=June 17, 2014
|date=July 29, 2013|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/258328/William-Randolph-Hearst
}} }}

{{refn|name=zoll |{{cite news
|date=April 14, 1996
|first=Rachel
|last=Zoll
|url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960415/LIFE/304159968&emailAFriend=1
|work=South Coast Today
|title=Libraries throw the book at their abundant looters
|archive-date=March 4, 2016
|access-date=May 26, 2014
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030046/http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960415/LIFE/304159968&emailAFriend=1
|url-status=dead
}} }}

{{refn|name=HEW_history| {{cite web
| website = hcl.harvard.edu
| title = Houghton Library. Collec{{shy}}tions. Harry Elkins Widener Collec{{shy}}tion. History.
| author = Harvard College Library
| date = June 10, 2014
| access-date = 2014-05-15
| publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
| url = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/widener/
| archive-date = 2014-05-02
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140502001821/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/widener/
| url-status = dead
}} }}

{{refn|name=pollet|{{cite book
|last1=Pollet|first1=Dorothy|last2=Haskell|first2=Peter C.|url=https://archive.org/details/signsystemsforli00poll
|url-access=registration|title=Sign systems for libraries: solving the wayfinding problem|year=1979|publisher=Bowker|pages=[https://archive.org/details/signsystemsforli00poll/page/169 169]–71
|isbn=9780835211499 }} }}

{{refn|name=widener_history| {{cite web | website = hcl.harvard.edu | title = Widener Library. History. | author = Harvard College Library | date = September 26, 2014 | access-date = 2015-01-11 | publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College | url = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/history.cfm | archive-date = 2017-07-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170701183802/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/history.cfm | url-status = dead }} }}

{{refn|name=relieve|
{{cite news
|title=Legendary Librarian Dies, Planned Lament [sic?] and Pusey
|first=Ellen P.|last=Goodman|date=November 8, 1983
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1983/11/8/legendary-librarian-dies-planned-lament-and/
}}
* {{cite web
 |title        = Houghton Library. History
 |author       = Harvard College Library
 |date         = 2008
 |access-date  = 2015-01-11
 |website      = hcl.harvard.edu
 |publisher    = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
 |url          = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/history.cfm
 |archive-date = 2010-06-26
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100626063110/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/history.cfm
 |url-status   = dead
}}
}}<!--<<end refn-->

{{refn|name=stakeout|{{cite news
|title='Slasher' Tied to Extortion, Threats
|date=December 16, 1994 | first=Andrew L. |last=Wright
|url = https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1994/12/16/slasher-tied-to-extortion-threats-pin/
|work=Harvard Crimson
}} }}

{{refn|name=suspect| {{cite news
|title=Suspect Falls 50 Feet With Gutenberg Bible: $1 Million Harvard Theft Fails
|last=Snow|first=Crocker Jr. |work=Boston Globe|date=August 21, 1969 |page=1
}} }}

{{refn|name=barcoding| {{cite web
|website = Harvard University. Library Notes.
|url=http://hul.harvard.edu/publications/hul_notes_1330/barcoding.html
|date=March 2006|number=1330|title=HCL's Smart Barcoding Project Under Way in Widener|archive-date=August 23, 2014|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/5456/20140823155723/http://hul.harvard.edu/publications/hul_notes_1330/barcoding.html|url-status=unfit
}} }}

{{refn|name=crime_1969|{{cite news
|title=Officials Add New Security For Widener Fire Threat, Bible Theft Spur Action
|date=September 23, 1969 <!--no writer-->|work=Harvard Crimson
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/9/23/officials-add-new-security-for-widener
}} }}

{{refn|name=widener_hewmc| {{cite web
| website = hcl.harvard.edu
| title = Widener Library. Collec{{shy}}tions. Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Collec{{shy}}tion
| author = Harvard College Library
| date = 2007
| access-date = 2014-05-16
| publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
| url = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/collections/harryelkins.html
}}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} }}

{{refn |name=fox|{{cite book
|last=Fox|first=Dov|title=The Truth about Harvard: A Behind the Scenes Look at Admissions and Life on Campus|page=100
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SVrimODXb-8C&pg=PA100|year=2004|publisher=The Princeton Review|isbn=978-0-375-76435-6
}}}}

{{refn|name=HEW_gutenberg| {{cite web
| website = hcl.harvard.edu
| title = Houghton Library. Collec{{shy}}tions. Harry Elkins Widener Collec{{shy}}tion. The Gutenberg Bible
| author = Harvard College Library
| date = 2012
| access-date = 2014-05-23
| publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
| url = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/widener/gutenberg.cfm
| archive-date = 2014-05-02
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032253/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/widener/gutenberg.cfm
| url-status = dead
}} }}

{{refn|name=wiegand | {{cite book| title =Encyclo{{shy}}pedia of Library History
|editor1=Wayne A. Wiegand |editor2=Donald G. Davis |publisher=Taylor{{nbsp}}& Francis|year=1994
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WR9bsvhc4XMC&pg=PA256
|isbn=978-0-8240-5787-9
}} }}

{{refn|name=goins| {{cite news | title =Needed Renova{{shy}}tions Planned For Widener
|first=Jason M. |last=Goins | date=March 23, 1999 |work=Harvard Crimson
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1999/3/23/needed-renovations-planned-for-widener-pwhen
}} }}

{{refn|name=crime_1951|{{cite news
|title=Faculty Profile. Sleuths in the Stacks |first=Philip M. |last=Cronin|date=December 12, 1951 |work=Harvard Crimson
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1951/12/12/faculty-profile-pi-was-always-well-known/
}} }}

{{refn|name=meister| {{cite book |title=Architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston: Harvard's H. Langford Warren
|first=Maureen |last=Meister | year=2003|isbn=978-1-58465-351-6 |publisher=UPNE
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMG7uSjbiNQC&pg=PA147
}} }}

{{refn|name=gift| {{cite web
 |title        = The Memo{{shy}}rial Library. The Gift to Harvard
 |author       = Harvard College Library
 |date         = 2009
 |access-date  = 2014-05-15
 |website      = History of the Harry Elkins Widener Memo{{shy}}rial Collec{{shy}}tion
 |publisher    = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
 |url          = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/widener/library/5_2.cfm
 |archive-date = 2018-06-06
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20180606160715/http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/widener/library/5_2.cfm
 |url-status   = dead
}} }}

{{refn|name=mrsw| {{cite web
 |title        = The Memo{{shy}}rial Library. Mrs. Widener to President Lowell
 |author       = Harvard College Library
 |date         = 2009
 |access-date  = 2014-05-15
 |website      = History of the Harry Elkins Widener Memo{{shy}}rial Collec{{shy}}tion
 |publisher    = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
 |url          = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/widener/library/5_3.cfm
 |archive-date = 2014-04-28
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20140428061859/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/widener/library/5_3.cfm
 |url-status   = dead
}} }}

{{refn|name=look|{{cite book
|author=David Herbert Donald|title=Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OVPHgzHxUgEC&pg=PA498
|year=2002|publisher=Harvard Univer{{shy}}sity Press
|isbn=978-0-674-00869-4|pages=72–73
}} }}

{{refn|name=offsite| {{cite book | title=Library Off-site Shelving: Guide for High-density Facilities
|editor1=Danuta A. Nitecki |editor2=Curtis L. Kendrick|page=129|publisher=Libraries Unlimited |year= 2001
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v2aD9piTIFoC&pg=PA129 |isbn=978-1-56308-885-8
}} }}

{{refn|name=lb_ad|{{cite journal
|journal=The Library Journal |date=May 1915|at=Advertising supplement, p. 7
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSUzAQAAMAAJ
|title=Special card catalog cases|volume=40|number=5
|last1=Martel|first1=Charles}} }}

{{refn|name=tlj_may1915|{{cite journal
|journal=The Library Journal |date=May 1915|page=305
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSUzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA305
|title=The preparations for the A.L.A. conference at Berkeley|volume=40|number=5
|last1=Martel|first1=Charles}} }}

{{refn|name=snead_ad|{{cite journal
|journal=The Library Journal |date=December 1915|at=Advertising supplement, p. 9
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSUzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA981|volume=40|number=12
|title=The Newly Completed Widener Memorial Library, Harvard Univer{{shy}}sity is equipped with Snead Standard Stack and Snead Standard Steel Shelving
|last1=Martel|first1=Charles}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_swim|{{cite web
|work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian |date=February 22, 2012
|url=https://ask.library.harvard.edu/faq/81791
|title=Is it true that Harvard students must pass a swimming test because of Harry Elkins Widener's death aboard the Titanic?
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah |access-date=April 30, 2014
}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_dioramas|{{cite web
|work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian |date=May 19, 2016
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/faq/81790
|title=What happened to the dioramas of Cambridge that used to be in Widener?
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah |access-date=June 3, 2016
}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_inscriptions|{{cite web
|work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=380877
|title=What are the inscriptions to Harry by his mother in the entrance to the memorial library at Harvard?
|date=March 25, 2013 |access-date=June 14, 2014
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah
}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_sargent|{{cite web
|work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=33668
|title=Where are the John Singer Sargent paintings in Widener?
|date=June 14, 2013 |access-date=June 14, 2014
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah
}} }}

{{refn|name=tomase | {{cite news
|title=Tale of John Harvard's Surviving Book
|date=November 1, 2007
|first=Jennifer
|last=Tomase
|publisher=The President and Fellows of Harvard College
|work=Harvard Gazette
|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/11/tale-of-john-harvard%E2%80%99s-surviving-book
}}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} }}

{{refn|name=collections| {{cite web
| website = hcl.harvard.edu
| title = Widener Library Collec{{shy}}tions. Overview
| author = Harvard College Library
| date = 2009
| access-date = 2014-05-15
| publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
| url = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/collections
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180606133036/http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/collections/
| archive-date = 2018-06-06
| url-status = live
}} }}

{{refn|name=forrest|{{cite journal |pages=197–205 |url=https://www.academia.edu/669221 |title=2005 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards{{snd}}Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library Renova{{shy}}tion |author=Charles Forrest |journal=Library Administra{{shy}}tion{{nbsp}}& Manage{{shy}}ment |date=Fall 2005 |volume=19 |number=4 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} }}

{{refn|name=histcambridge|{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.mocavo.com/A-History-of-Cambridge-Massachusetts-1630-1913/488593/315 |author=Samuel Atkins Eliot |chapter=The Harry Elkins Widener Library |pages=273–76 |title=A history of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630–1913{{snd}}together with biographies of Cambridge people |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Cambridge Tribune |year=1913 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{subscription required}} }}

{{refn|name=movement| {{cite web
 |title        = HCL News. Widener Stacks Division Com{{shy}}pletes the Movement of Millions of Volumes{{snd}}Not an Easy Trick
 |author       = Harvard College Library
 |date         = 2009
 |access-date  = 2014-05-15
 |website      = hcl.harvard.edu
 |publisher    = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
 |url          = http://hcl.harvard.edu/news/articles/2002/stackscomplete_pr.cfm
 |archive-date = 2014-05-25
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20140525214015/http://hcl.harvard.edu/news/articles/2002/stackscomplete_pr.cfm
 |url-status   = dead
}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_disturbing|{{cite web
|work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|author=Colleen Bryant|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=196882
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217012015/http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=196882
|archive-date=2015-02-17
|title=I found a disturbing bookplate in a Widener book|date=Jul 19, 2012
}} }}

{{refn|name=whiffen|{{cite book
|title=American Architecture: 1860–1976 |volume=2 |author-link=Marcus Whiffen |first1=Marcus |last1=Whiffen |first2= Frederick |last2=Koeper
|year=1983|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-73070-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gpgPyGWFRBAC&pg=PA281
}} }}

{{refn|name=lacock|{{cite book
|last=Lacock |first=John Kennedy|year=1923<!--apparently no isbn-->
|title=Boston and vicinity including Cambridge, Arlington, Lexington, Concord, Quincy, Plymouth, Salem and Marblehead. Historic landmarks and points of interest and how to see them
|location=Boston|publisher=Chapple Publishing Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Da5JAAAAIAAJ
}} }}

{{refn|name=british|{{cite book
|title=British Univer{{shy}}sities Encyclo{{shy}}paedia: pt. 1–2. World's libraries and librarians
|location=London |year=1939 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=65pGAQAAIAAJ
|publisher=British Univer{{shy}}sities Encyclo{{shy}}paedia Limited and the Athenaeum Press
}} }}

{{refn|name=ala_aia|{{cite web
|url=http://www.ala.org/llama/awards/aiaalalibrarybuildings|title=Previous Winners of the AIA/ALA Library Buildings Award Program
|publisher=American Library Association|author=Library Leadership and Management Association
|work=Library Leadership & Management Association (LLAMA)
|date=30 November 1999
}} }}

{{refn|name=browse|{{cite news
|work=Boston Sunday Herald|date=October 10, 1915|page=1
|title=A browse amongst the books in the new Widener Memorial Library at Harvard
}} }}

{{refn|name=halberstam|{{cite news |last=Halberstam |first=David
|title=The Widener Memorial Room |work=Harvard Crimson |date=April 7, 1953
|author-link=David Halberstam|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1953/4/7/the-widener-memorial-room-ptwenty-seven-year
}} }}

{{refn| name=ask_flowers |{{cite web
| url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=99096|work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian 
|title=Is it true that fresh flowers are delivered daily to the Widener Memorial Room?
|date=October 3, 2011 |access-date=April 30, 2014 |last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah 
|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217013352if_/http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=99096 
|archive-date=2015-02-17
}} }}

{{refn|name=canoe|{{cite book
|author=Steven Biel|title=Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster
|url=https://archive.org/details/downwitholdcanoe0000biel
|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/downwitholdcanoe0000biel/page/89 89]|year=2012|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-34080-8
}} }}

{{refn|name=bibliophobia|{{cite news
|title=Bibliophobia |first=Sarah J. |last=Schaffer |date=February 18, 1995 |work=Harvard Crimson
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1995/2/18/bibliophobia-psome-harvard-students-make-it/?page=single
}} }}

{{refn|name=cyclo|{{Cite CAB|wstitle= Widener, Harry Elkins |last= Homans |first= James E. |author-link= |page= |short=}} }}

{{refn|name=bpl_sargent|
* {{cite web
|title=Sargent's Harvard murals
|year=2003
|access-date=2014-05-24
|publisher=Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston and the President and Fellows of Harvard College
|url=http://www.sargentmurals.bpl.org/site/sargent/01_hvd.html
|archive-date=2017-06-27
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627123133/http://www.sargentmurals.bpl.org/site/sargent/01_hvd.html
|url-status=dead
}}
* {{cite web
| title=Sargent's Harvard Murals. Entering the War.
| url=http://www.sargentmurals.bpl.org/site/sargent/02_hvd.html
| access-date=2014-05-05
| archive-date=2017-05-03
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503034031/http://www.sargentmurals.bpl.org/site/sargent/02_hvd.html
| url-status=dead
}}
}}

{{refn|name=Harvard's_new|{{cite news
|title=Harvard's new library – Presented by Mrs. George D. Widener to House the Valuable Collection of Books Left by Her Son, Harry Elkins Widener
|date=September 22, 1912 |work=The New York Times |page=14
|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/09/22/100594028.pdf
}} }}

{{refn|name=HEW_Livingston|{{cite letter
| first = Harry Elkins
| last = Widener
| recipient = [[Luther Samuel Livingston]]
| subject = Just a few lines to tell you that I am about to take a quick trip to England
| date = March 10, 1912
| type = manuscript
| url = http://hollisclassic.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=008653030
}} }}

{{refn|name=hellman|{{cite news
|title=Harvard To Get Harry Widener's Famous Library – Titanic Victim, Though Hardly Out Of College – Acquired A Fine Collection Of Books That He Willed To His Alma Mater – His Grandfather Adds A Memorial Wing To House It
|author=George S. Hellman |work=The New York Times |date=June 2, 1912
|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/06/02/100585557.pdf
}} }}

{{refn|name=houghton_chron|{{cite book
|author1=Hugh Amory|author2=Nancy Finlay
|title=A Houghton library chronicle, 1942–1992
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXoqAQAAIAAJ
|year=1992|publisher=Harvard College Library
|isbn=9780914630067
}} }}

{{refn|name=speaking|{{cite news
 |publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
 |date      = February 26, 1998
 |author    = <!--doesn't seem to be an author given-->
 |title     = Speaking Volumes
 |work      = Harvard Gazette
 |url       = http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/02.26/SpeakingVolumes.html
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19990909205056/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/02.26/SpeakingVolumes.html
|url-status  = dead
|archive-date = September 9, 1999
}} }}

{{refn|name=hewc| {{cite web
| website = hcl.harvard.edu
| title = Harry Elkins Widener Collec{{shy}}tion. Overview
| author = Harvard College Library
| date = 2009
| access-date = 2014-05-15
| publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
| url = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/widener/collection.cfm
| archive-date = 2014-10-11
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141011074423/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/widener/collection.cfm
| url-status = dead
}} }}

{{refn|name=HEW_will| {{cite web
| title = The Memo{{shy}}rial Library. Will of Harry Elkins Widener
| author = Harvard College Library
| date = 2009
| access-date = 2014-05-15
| website = History of the Harry Elkins Widener Memo{{shy}}rial Collec{{shy}}tion
| publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
| url = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/widener/library/5_7.cfm
| archive-date = 2018-06-06
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180606160728/http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/widener/library/5_7.cfm
| url-status = dead
}} }}

{{refn|name=AZ|{{cite book
|last1=Bethell|first1= John T.|last2= Hunt|first2= Richard M.|last3= Shenton|first3=Robert
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WGrBJFRw1GsC&pg=PA230|isbn=978-0-674-02089-4
|title=Harvard A to Z|publisher= Harvard Universi{{shy}}ty Press|year=2004
}} }}

{{refn|name=leighton|{{cite book
|last1=Leighton |first1=Philip D.
|last2=Weber |first2=David C.
|title=Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8R9UH8kbo4C&pg=PA13
|year=1999 | publisher=American Library Association
|isbn=978-0-8389-0747-4 | pages=13–14
}} }}

{{refn|name=houghton_gutenberg| {{cite web
 |website      = hcl.harvard.edu
 |title        = Houghton Library. Collections. Harry Elkins Widener Collection. The Gutenberg Bible
 |author       = Harvard College Library
 |date         = 2012
 |access-date  = 2014-06-01
 |publisher    = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
 |url          = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/widener/gutenberg.cfm
 |archive-date = 2014-05-02
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032253/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/widener/gutenberg.cfm
 |url-status   = dead
}} }}

{{refn|name=special| {{cite web
 |website     = hcl.harvard.edu
 |title       = Widener Library. FAS Departmental Libraries
 |author      = Harvard College Library
 |date        = 2009
 |access-date = 2014-05-15
 |publisher   = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
 |url         = http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/fas_dept_libs.cfm
}}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} }}

{{refn |name=engineering|{{cite journal
|date=June 1916|page=iv|journal=The Engineering Magazine
|title= Improved Machinery. An Electric Floor Surfacing Machine
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0rJMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PR4
}} }}

{{refn|name=bearings |
{{cite news
|title=Fifteen Minutes: Blue Line|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1999/9/30/fifteen-minutes-blue-line-pevery-widener
|author=<!--NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED-->|date= September 30, 1999 |work=Harvard Crimson
}}
* {{cite news
|title=Dazed and Confused In Widener Library|last=Marks|first=Stephen M.|date=October 24, 2002|work=Harvard Crimson
}}
}}<!--<<end refn-->

{{refn|name=gewertz|{{cite news
|first=Ken
|last=Gewertz
|date=October 17, 2002
|work=Harvard Gazette
|publisher=The President and Fellows of Harvard College
|title=Widener's main entrance to close for renova{{shy}}tion
|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/10.17/09-widener.html
}}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} }}

{{refn|name=slips|{{citation
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/9/18/burglar-slips-as-he-tries-to/
|title=Burglar Slips as He Tries to Remove Gutenberg Bible From Widener Library
|work=Harvard Crimson | date=September 18, 1969 <!--no author-->
}} }}

{{refn|name=shandtucci| {{cite book
|last=Shand-Tucci|first=Douglas|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press
|title=The Campus Guide: Harvard Universi{{shy}}ty|pages=165–69
|year=2001|isbn=9781568982809|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3g6vmGl0UgwC
}} }}

{{refn|name=klepts|{{cite journal
|journal=Harvard Magazine |date= March 1997 |title=Biblioklepts
| last= Reed |first=Christopher
}}<!--<<end cite template-->
[http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/03/biblio.html Part{{nbsp}}A]
[http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/03/biblio.2.html Part{{nbsp}}B]
[http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/03/biblio.3.html Part{{nbsp}}C]
[http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/03/biblio.4.html Part{{nbsp}}D]
[http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/03/biblio.5.html Part{{nbsp}}E]
}}<!--<<end refn-->

{{refn|name=slasher|{{cite journal |journal=Harvard Magazine |last=Reed |first=Christopher |date=March{{endash}}April 1997 |url=http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/03/biblio.slasher.html |title=The Slasher |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=2014-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052410/http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/03/biblio.slasher.html |url-status=dead }} }}

{{refn|name=smith|{{cite book
|title=The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation|url=https://archive.org/details/harvardcentury00rich|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/harvardcentury00rich/page/80 80]|last=Smith|first=Richard Norton
|year=1986|publisher=Simon & Schuster
|isbn=978-0-671-46035-8 }} }}

{{refn|name=lies|{{cite journal
|journal=Harvard Magazine | author=Primus V |date=July–August 2003
|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/lies-about-harry.html
| title=The College Pump{{snd}}Lies about Harry
}} }}

{{refn|name=tuchman|{{cite book
|page=15|year=2011|title=Practicing History: Selected essays|last=Tuchman| first=Barbara W.
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hffLC9_WUCIC&pg=PA15|author-link=Barbara W. Tuchman
|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-79855-8
}} }}

{{refn | name=destroyer |{{cite news
|title=Destroyer of Books Gets Stiff Sentence
|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/03.28/DestroyerofBook.html
|publisher=The President and Fellows of Harvard College
|first=Marvin
|last=Hightower
|date=March 28, 1996
|work=Harvard Gazette
|archive-date=December 8, 2015
|access-date=May 15, 2014
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208175853/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/03.28/DestroyerofBook.html
|url-status=dead
}} }}

{{refn|name=lib1892|{{cite book|author=Harvard Univer{{shy}}sity. Library|title=Fifteenth Report (1892) of Justin Winsor, Librarian of Harvard Univer{{shy}}sity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YlkZAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA15|year=1892|pages=1–15
}} }}

{{refn|name=lane_libj<!-- ← there's something wrong with the two Lane cites -- article was published once in Library J and once in H Alumni Bull (slightly changed), and the page number refs seem mixed up between them-->
|{{cite journal|last=Lane|first=William Coolidge|author-link=William Coolidge Lane
|title=The Widener Memo{{shy}}rial Library of Harvard College
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSUzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA325
|journal=The Library Journal|date=May 1915|page=325|volume=40|number=5
}} }}

{{refn|name=coolidge|{{cite book
|last=Coolidge|first=Archibald Cary|title=The Harvard College Library|number=93|author-link=Archibald Cary Coolidge
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CdYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA81|volume=24|date=September 1915
|publisher=Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association|pages=23–31}}}}

{{refn|name=lodge|{{cite book
|last=Lodge|first=Henry Cabot|title=The Meaning of a Great Library|number=93
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CdYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31|volume=24|date=September 1915
|publisher=Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association|pages=31–38}}}}

{{refn|name=dedication|{{cite book
|title=Commencement—Dedication of the Library|number=93
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CdYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA81|volume=24|date=September 1915
|publisher=Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association|pages=81–82}}}}

{{refn|name=sanders|{{cite book
|title=Commencement—Exercises in Sanders Theatre|number=93
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CdYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA78|volume=24|date=September 1915
|publisher=Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association|pages=78–81}}}}

{{refn|name=lane_mem
|{{cite journal|last=Lane|first=William Coolidge|author-link=William Coolidge Lane
|title=The Harry Elkins Widener Memo{{shy}}rial Library. The Widener Memorial
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JyTPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA672
|journal=The Library Journal|date=May 1915|pages=672–77|volume=40|number=5
}} }}

{{refn|name=graduates_window
|{{cite journal|pages=23–25|date=September 1903|volume=12|number=45|title=From a Graduate's Window
|journal=Harvard Graduates Magazine|publisher=Harvard Graduates' Magazine Associa{{shy}}tion
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eDNYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA23
}} }}

{{refn|name=crime_1928|{{cite news
|title=New Addition Affords Widener Shelving Room – Recent Gift of Mrs. Hamilton Rice Increases Stack Space – Two Levels Added Below Present Stack
|work=Harvard Crimson|date=September 22, 1928 <!--no writer-->
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1928/9/22/new-addition-affords-widener-shelving-room/
}} }}

{{refn|name=alumni_19130616_collection|{{cite journal|journal=Harvard Alumni Bulletin|pages=668–70
|title=The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. The Widener Collection of Books
|author=George Parker Winship | author-link=George Parker Winship
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JyTPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA668
|date=June 16, 1915 |publisher=Harvard Alumni Associa{{shy}}tion|volume=XVII|number=36
}} }}

{{refn|name=counting|{{cite news
 |url         = http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/06.04/CountingLibrari.html
 |publisher   = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
 |work        = Harvard Univer{{shy}}sity Gazette
 |date        = June 4, 1998
 |last        = Hanke
 |first       = Timothy
 |title       = Counting Libraries at Harvard: Not as Easy as You Think
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120705142839/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/06.04/CountingLibrari.html
 |archive-date = July 5, 2012
}} }}

{{refn|name=beefs|{{cite news|title=Widener Beefs Up Security
|work=Harvard Crimson|first=Elisabeth S. |last=Theodore |date= November 14, 2001
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2001/11/14/widener-beefs-up-security-pstudents-entering/
}} }}

{{refn|name=contract|{{cite news
|work=Harvard Crimson|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1912/12/9/contract-for-new-library-pwhile-the/
|title=Contract for new library to be let soon – Specifications call for building of most modern type
|date=December 9, 1912<!--no writer-->
}}}}

{{refn|name=bridge|
{{cite news
|work=Harvard Gazette
|publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
|title=Houghton bridge is coming down|date=November 6, 2003
|author=HCL Communica{{shy}}tions| url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/11.06/19-bridge.html
}}
* {{cite news|title=Widener Library Bridge Coming Down
|first=Zachary M. |last=Seward|date=November 18, 2003 |work=Harvard Crimson
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/18/widener-library-bridge-coming-down-the/
}} }}

{{refn|name=bust|{{cite news|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1920/6/4/memorial-bust-of-titanic-victim-placed
|title=Memorial Bust of Titanic Victim Placed in Widener – Francis Davis Millet '69 Honored by His Classmates—Was Prominent Mural Decorator
|date=June 4, 1920 <!--no author--> |work=Harvard Crimson
}} }}

{{refn|name=gazette2012A|{{cite web
|work=Harvard Gazette |title=Widener Library rises from Titanic tragedy
|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/04/as-result-of-titanics-sinking-widener-library-rose/
|publisher = The President and Fellows of Harvard College
|last=Ireland|first=Corydon|date=April 5, 2012
}} }}

{{refn|name=snead|{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kr9XAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA153
| pages=11, 68, 152–58 | publisher=Snead{{nbsp}}& Company Iron Works | year=1915
| title=Library planning, bookstacks and shelving, with contri{{shy}}bu{{shy}}tions from the archi{{shy}}tects' and librarians' points of view
}} }}

{{refn|name=valve_abele|{{cite web|title=Julian Abele|date=February 18, 2014
| work=Sprinkler Valve Through Door: A peek inside Harvard's Widener Library<!--For the record, this is the official blog of Widener Library, as described at [http://hcl.harvard.edu/news/articles/2014/tumblr/index.cfm]: '[Widener's] librarians started a Tumblr blog, named "Sprinkler Valve Through Door," to act as a window into the collections, spaces and services of Widener. "I'm hoping people familiar with the stacks get the title immediately and laugh," said Manager of Reference and Information Services Reed Lowrie, one of the blog's creators...' -->
|url=http://widenerlibrary.tumblr.com/post/77105150617/julian-abele-was-the-chief-designer-for-the}}
}}

{{refn|name=stam|{{cite book<!--additionally may be source for Widener classification system-->
|first=David H. | last=Stam
|title=International Dictionary of Library Histories
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zoq_TtEN54IC&pg=PA351
|year=2001 |publisher=Taylor & Francis
|isbn=978-1-57958-244-9
}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_wolfe|{{cite web
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=40496 |work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|title=Who was the Harvard student who famously was stunned to realize that he couldn't read all the books in Widener Library?
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah |date=April 1, 2014 |access-date=June 5, 2014
}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_mrsw_inscription|{{cite web
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=101140 |work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|title=What is the inscrip{{shy}}tion over the door to the Widener Library in memory of Mrs. Hamilton Rice?
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah |date=October 8, 2011 |access-date=June 14, 2014
}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_furniture|{{cite web
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=99069 |work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|title=Did the furniture in the Widener Memorial Room belong to Harry Elkins Widener?
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah |date=October 3, 2011 |access-date=June 15, 2014
}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_lamp|{{cite web
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=99055|work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|title=Is the lamp in the Widener Memorial Room a real Tiffany?
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah |date=October 3, 2011 |access-date=June 15, 2014
}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_rug|{{cite web
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=99053 |work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|title=What is the rug that's in the Widener Memorial Room?
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah |date=October 3, 2011 |access-date=June 15, 2014
}} }}

{{refn|name=printers|
{{cite journal
|url=http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/2573358?n=17602&s=6
|title=A Carved Tablet Showing Early Printers' Marks on the Widener Library
|journal=Harvard Library Bulletin
|author=Mason Hammond
|volume=XXXVI
|number=4
|date=Fall 1988
|pages=373–80
}}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* {{cite web
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=55788|work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|title=Over the front door of Widener there is a carving.
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah |date=April 1, 2011 |access-date=June 16, 2014
}}
}}<!--<<end refn-->

{{refn|name=ask_gutenberg|{{cite web
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=48156 |work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|title=Does Harvard have a Gutenberg Bible?
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah |date=Feb 7, 2012 |access-date=June 15, 2014
}} }}

{{refn|name=ask_portrait|{{cite web
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=99093 |work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|title=What can you tell me about the portrait in the Widener Memorial Room?
|last=Kelley-Milburn |first=Deborah |date=February 25, 2013 |access-date=June 15, 2014
}} }}

{{refn|name=mitchell|{{cite book
|last=Mitchell|first=Ted
|title=Thomas Wolfe: An Illustrated Biography|isbn=978-1-933648-10-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/thomaswolfe00tedm/page/78 78]
|url=https://archive.org/details/thomaswolfe00tedm|url-access=registration|year=2006|publisher=Pegasus Books
}} }}

{{refn|name=necro|
{{cite web
|url=http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=29612 |work=Harvard Library. Ask a Librarian
|title=Does Harvard have a copy of the Necronomicon?|date=June 12, 2012|access-date=June 13, 2014|author=David Cort
}}
* {{cite web
|title=History of the Necronomicon|date=April 1, 2014| work=Sprinkler Valve Through Door: A peek inside Harvard's Widener Library
|url=http://widenerlibrary.tumblr.com/post/81401648576/top-photos-1-4-a-history-of-the-necronomicon
}}
* {{cite web
|title=April Fools|date=April 2, 2014| work=Sprinkler Valve Through Door: A peek inside Harvard's Widener Library
|url=http://widenerlibrary.tumblr.com/post/81513800191/april-fools-our-previous-post-on-the-necronomicon
}}
* {{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MevMCyh7hRUC| title=The Lovecraft Necronomicon primer: a guide to the Cthulhu mythos
|last=Bilstad|first= T. Allan |year=2009 <!--page needed-->|publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide|isbn=978-0-7387-1379-3
}}
* {{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=soWOpwAACAAJ|title=A history of the Necronomicon |last=Lovecraft|first=H. P.
|edition=2nd|year=1977<!--1st ed would be better, and pg#-->|publisher=Necronomicon Press|isbn=978-0-686-19141-4
}}
}}<!--<<end refn-->

{{refn|name=bentinck1976|{{cite book | title=Building a great library: the Coolidge years at Harvard
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zYYaAAAAMAAJ
|year=1976 |author-link=William Bentinck-Smith |last=Bentinck-Smith | first=William
|publisher=Harvard Univer{{shy}}sity Library |isbn=978-0-674-08578-7
}} }}

{{refn|name=battles_unquiet|{{cite book | title=Library: An Unquiet History
|year = 2004|publisher=W. W. Norton|isbn=978-0-393-32564-5
|last=Battles |first=Matthew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L5O-v2V1ryYC&pg=PA4
}} }}

{{refn|name=gore_tablet|
{{cite news
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1917/9/26/tablet-erected-to-gore-hall-pthe/
|title=Tablet Erected to Gore Hall &ndash; Placed by Library Committee on Front of Widener.
|work=Harvard Crimson|date=September 26, 1917<!--no author-->
}}
* {{cite news
|url=http://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/cambridge?a=d&d=Tribune19170915-01.2.54
|work=Cambridge Tribune |volume=XL |number=29|date=September 15, 1917
|title=Widener Library Tablet Commemorates Gore Hall
}}
}}<!--<<end refn-->

{{refn|name=thieves|{{cite book
|author=Travis McDade |page=117 |isbn=978-0-19-992266-6
|title=Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QUcG2bS7xpkC&pg=PA117
|year=2013|publisher=Oxford Univer{{shy}}sity Press
}} }}

{{refn|name=whitehill|{{cite book
|last=Whitehill |first=Walter Muir |author-link=Walter Muir Whitehill
|title=Analecta biographica; a handful of New England portraits
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwgdAAAAMAAJ
|year=1969 |publisher=Stephen Greene Press |pages=1–14
|chapter=George Parker Winship
|isbn=9780828901031 }} }}

{{refn|name=without_result|
{{cite book
|last=Wilkie|first=Everett C.|isbn=978-0-8389-8592-2|page=27|year=2011
|title=Guide to Security Considerations and Practices for Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collection Libraries
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ecESDdC6DQC&pg=PA25|publisher=Association of College & Research Libraries
}}
* {{cite news
|title=HUPD Dept. Focuses on Investigations|first=Laura|last=Semerjian|date=November 16, 1996
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1996/11/16/hupd-dept-focuses-on-investigations-pthe
}}
}}<!--<<end refn-->

{{refn|name=bookplates|{{cite web
|title=The bookplates of Harvard men |date=May 29, 2013
|url=https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/houghtonmodern/2013/05/29/the-bookplates-of-harvard-men/
|work= Modern Books and Manuscripts – Houghton Library, Harvard Univer{{shy}}sity
}} }}

{{refn|name=crime_dont|{{cite news
|title=Don't Steal These Books, 1932 Inscriptions Warn|author=Katherine P. States |date=October 15, 1977
|work=Harvard Crimson|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1977/10/15/dont-steal-these-books-1932-inscriptions/
}}}}

{{refn|name=sheavian|{{cite journal
|journal=Harvard Magazine | author=Primus IV |date=September–October 1998
|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/1998/09/pump.html
|title=The College Pump{{snd}}Sheavian Slips
}} }}

{{refn|name=crime_indict|{{cite news
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1931/11/4/indict-book-thief-on-twenty-counts/
|title=Indict Book Thief on Twenty Counts – Former Prepara{{shy}}tory School Teacher, Arrested Two Weeks Ago, Had Home Stocked With Library Books
|work=Harvard Crimson|date=November 4, 1931 <!--no author-->
}} }}

{{refn|name=potter|{{cite book
|last=Potter |first=Alfred Claghorn |year=1915|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029532540/page/n39 32]
|title=The Library of Harvard University Descriptive and Historical Notes
|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029532540 }} }}

{{refn|name=wilkinson|{{cite news
|work=Harvard Crimson|title=Fifteen Minutes: Breaking the Rules at Widener
|first=B.C. |last=Wilkinson|date= October 21, 1999
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1999/10/21/fifteen-minutes-breaking-the-rules-at
}}}}

{{refn|name=bigdoings|{{cite journal |url=http://harvardmagazine.com/1999/07/jhj.doings.html |title=Big Doings at Widener Library |journal=Harvard Magazine |date=July–August 1999 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}}}

{{refn|name=newton|{{cite news
|author=A. Edward Newton|work=The Atlantic Monthly|title=A Remembrance of Harry Elkins Widener
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S383AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA351|volume=122|date=September 1918|pages=351–56
}} }}

{{refn|name=panic|{{cite news
|title=Weeding Out in Widener |work=The Harvard Crimson |author=Charles T. Kurzman |date= May 25, 1983
|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1983/5/25/weeding-out-in-widener-pbwidener-libraryb/
}} }}

{{refn |name=stone |{{cite magazine
|title=The Widener Memorial Library|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sFM6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA650
|volume=36|date=December 1915|page=650|magazine=Stone|number=12
}}}}

{{refn |name=shocks |{{cite letter
| first = William Coolidge | last = Lane | recipient = W. S. Burke
| subject = Persons about the library report | date = November 8, 1909 | type = manuscript
| location = Records of Harvard College Library, William Coolidge Lane, 1877–1929, "Harvard Inspector of Grounds and Buildings", UAIII 50.8.10.2, Harvard University Archives
}} }}

{{refn |name=snopes |{{cite web
| title=The Swim Test: Did a university implement swim tests at the behest of a benefactor whose child had drowned?
| url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-swim-test/
| website= snopes.com
| date=31 March 2000
}} }}

{{refn |name=furniture |{{cite book
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mam_AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA31 |page=31
| title=Report of Archibald Cary Coolidge, Director of the University Library. Reprinted, with additions from the Report of the President of Harvard University for 1914–1915
| year=1915
}} }}

{{refn |name=lane_snead
| 1=Records of Harvard College Library, William Coolidge Lane, 1877–1929, "Snead Co.", UAIII 50.8.10.2, Harvard University Archives.
}}

{{refn|name=echoes|{{cite magazine
|title = Echoes of 1969
|date=March–April 2019|magazine=Harvard Magazine|last= |first=<!--multiple contributors-->
|url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/02/1969-student-protests-vietnam
}}}}

{{refn|name=cambridge02138|{{cite magazine
|title = Cambridge 01238
|date=May–June 2019|magazine=Harvard Magazine|last= |first=<!--multiple contributors-->
|url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/04/cambridge-01238
}}}}

{{refn|name=fainsod|{{cite book|
first1=Merle |last1=Fainsod | first2=Douglas W. |last2=Bryant
|chapter=University Library
|title= Report of the President of Harvard College and reports of departments 1968-1969 (1970)
|url=https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:427268822$361i
|page=359
}}}}

}}<!--end ref list-->