Editing Hagley Museum and Library (section)

== Library ==
The '''Eleutherian Mills Historical Library''' was dedicated on October 7, 1961.<ref name="EMHL">{{cite web |url=https://digital.hagley.org/2011324 |title=Eleutherian Mills Historical Library Dedication |website=Hagley Museum and Library |access-date=March 18, 2021}}</ref> It was renamed as the '''Hagley Library''' in 1984.<ref name="EMHL"/>

Hagley's library houses a major research collection of manuscripts, archives, photographs, pamphlets, and books documenting the history of American business and technology.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hagley Museum and Library {{!}} Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine|url=https://www.chstm.org/member-institutions/hagley-museum-and-library|access-date=2021-11-12|website=www.chstm.org}}</ref> A member of the Independent Research Libraries Association, the library serves scholars from this country and abroad. Holdings include 37,000 linear feet in the Manuscripts and Archives Department, 290,000 printed volumes in the Imprints Department, 2 million visual items in the Pictorial Department, and more than 300,000 digital images and pages in the Digital Archives Department. The library and archival collections owned by Hagley are open to the public for research; a catalog and partial digital archive are available online.<ref name="Hagley Museum and Library: Collections Overview" />

The library includes the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, which coordinates Hagley's interactions with the world of scholarship in the fields of American economic, business, and technological history. The center offers a scholar-in-residence program and competitive fellowships. It also hosts the [[Business History Conference]], the largest US-based professional organization of business historians, and the editorial office of the peer-reviewed journal, ''[[Enterprise & Society]].''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-01-15 |title=About the Center |url=https://www.hagley.org/research/center |access-date=2022-08-02 |website=Hagley |language=en}}</ref>