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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 13

    As the Harvard community and the broader community practice social distancing, a reminder that we have over 6 million collection items available digitally. Access art, manuscripts, and audio visual materials for free from anywhere in the world.

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  2. May 21

    The Library holds 600+ manuscripts written in Naxi, one of the last widely-used pictographic languages. As these manuscripts are digitized, they’re being shared with Chinese scholars to add translations and cultural context. 🔗:

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  3. May 18

    There’s been a lot of information -- and misinformation -- about China circulating lately. All the more reason to watch the new ‘Behind the Book’ video with China scholar Tony Saich discussing his new book on the Chinese Communist Party. 🔗:

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  4. May 15

    Losing tracks of the days in Lincoln, MA. Missing the tourists in Myrtle Beach. Bizarre dreams and insomnia in Berlin. These and other ‘Dispatches from a Pandemic’ via , written by Harvard staff, students, and contributors worldwide:

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  5. May 14

    You can visit the new exhibit at ' Baker Library entirely from home! The exhibit explores the start of public relations as we know it through the case of the U.S. Steel Corporation. It’s a history of photography, labor, and marketing all in one:

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  6. May 12

    Are you a prospective student, or maybe just curious about the largest academic law library in the world? Take a video tour of led by library staff! Learn about its history, collections, and present-day operations:

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    May 11

    I'm glad to say that  is participating in the "Resource Sharing during " project. If your library isn't participating, I hope you can plant the idea.

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  8. May 8

    Just because we're not on campus doesn't mean students can't pay a visit to the ... Read how technology enabled English course 'The Harvard Novel' to study archival materials even during a remote semester:

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  9. May 6

    This hand-colored photo of a Tokyo tea house (circa 1890) is one of 2,000+ images in our online collection ‘Early Photography of Japan.’ The collection includes photos from Widener, Fine Arts, and Harvard-Yenching libraries -- browse all the images here:

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  10. May 5

    Congratulations to on their nomination for Best Website - Cultural Institution at 2020! Voting is open to the public until May 7, so check out the nominees and cast your ballot here:

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  11. May 4

    Congratulations to Harvard Law Library's Caselaw Access Project on their nomination for 2020! The project expanded access to U.S. law by digitally publishing 40 million pages of court decisions at . Vote for it to win the Webby here:

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  12. May 1

    Preserving digital history is a challenge we're tackling head-on right now. Digital artifacts, like this web page on Harvard’s COVID-19 response, are dynamic and require constant vigilance -- in this case, is preserving the page as it evolves.

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  13. Apr 30

    Our preservation team recently began a project to preserve and enhance access to Harvard’s collection of salted paper prints, rare images made with the first negative-to-positive photo process. Read more about the project and the prints:

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  14. Apr 29

    If you're looking for a new project, we've got one: Help us transcribe handwritten documents from our Colonial North America collection. Translate materials from Spanish or decipher John Hancock's famous flourishes! Read more via the Harvard Gazette:

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  15. Apr 28

    Wish you could visit your favorite study spot at , in , or even ? We have the next best thing -- virtual library Zoom backgrounds for your next class or meeting:

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  16. Apr 27

    Happy to our talented Preservation Services team! They can do everything from sewing books to rescuing waterlogged CDs, and they run workshops to share their knowledge. Check out these photos from past courses on Japanese bookbinding and A/V material salvaging.

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  17. Apr 25

    Taiwanese video game “Devotion” was recently added to the collections at Harvard-Yenching Library. Despite a past controversy with the game, it was acquired by the library for scholarly reasons, not political ones:

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  18. Apr 24

    Looking for a new project? Help us transcribe 18th-century medical records, songbooks, letters, and more!

    This is the first library-wide, crowd-sourced transcription project in Harvard’s history
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  19. Apr 23

    Congrats to Digital Collections Program Manager Dorothy Berry, who was just named a 2020 Rare Book School-Mellon Cultural Heritage Fellow! The program () advances understanding of multicultural collections and provides professional development.

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  20. Apr 22

    We’re celebrating in true library fashion, by making information easier to find! Help us tag digitized images of plants and animals, including thousands from our libraries -- more data means better discovery of amazing images. 🔗:

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  21. Apr 21

    A roundup of ways to celebrate from home includes links to online archives from . Check them out, plus find virtual poetry celebrations to attend or workshops to join:

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