By registering for a course at the Extension School, you can take advantage of many Harvard Library benefits, including online access to Harvard Library resources.
Online Resources
Search the HOLLIS library catalog for books, articles, and more.
Use the Library Guide for Harvard Extension School for help with Harvard Library services and resources, as well as research help.
If your instructor has asked you to search a particular database (for example, JSTOR) you can search for the database on the Databases website.
On-Campus Resources
Harvard libraries are open to active Extension School degree candidates and premedical program participants with a Harvard student ID card as well as currently registered Extension School students with a class participant library card.
Class Participant Library Cards
If you are a registered student at the Extension School, you are eligible for a class participant library card that allows you on-campus access and borrowing privileges at Harvard libraries during the terms in which you are registered.
Please visit Student Login and ID Cards for additional information on how to obtain a Class Participant Library Card.
Harvard Library
The following is a list of FAS and graduate school libraries ranging in size from Widener, which houses 3.5 million books and offers the world’s most comprehensive research collection in the humanities and social sciences, to libraries that focus on a single discipline, such as the Loeb Music Library.
- Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library
- Baker Library (Harvard Business School)
- Birkhoff Mathematical Library
- Botany Libraries
- Cabot Science Library
- Countway Library (Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Ernst Mayr Library
- Fine Arts Library
- Frances Loeb Library (Harvard Graduate School of Design)
- Fung Library
- Gutman Library (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
- Harvard Divinity School Library
- Harvard Film Archive
- Harvard Law School Library
- Harvard Map Collection
- Harvard Theatre Collection
- Harvard-Yenching Library
- HKS Library and Research Services (Harvard Kennedy School)
- Houghton Library
- Lamont Library
- Loeb Music Library
- Tozzer Library
- Widener Library
To find out more about the libraries, visit the Harvard Library website. Under Visit & About, see Locations & Hours to plan your visit, and Find a Space to search for group study rooms and the availability of amenities like printers, scanners, and food and drink policies.
Questions?
If you have any questions about library resources, please contact Mary Frances Angelini, Angelini@FAS.Harvard.edu or Jonathan Paulo, Jonathan_Paulo@Harvard.edu. Or visit the Extension School LibGuide for more help.
