HCL's Relationship to the University Library System
There are over 80 libraries at Harvard that constitute the Harvard University Library system, with combined holdings of over 15 million items. More than nine million of those items are part of the collection of the Harvard College Library (HCL), which is a centrally administered unit within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and includes Cabot Science, Fine Arts, Fung, Harvard-Yenching, Houghton (includes Harvard Theatre Collection), Lamont, Loeb Music, Quad, Tozzer, and Widener libraries and Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Film Archive, and the Social Sciences Program that includes Government Information Services, and Environmental Information Services, Numeric Data Services, the Harvard Map Collection, and Fung Library. The other major libraries—graduate schools and FAS science libraries—and the departmental libraries outside FAS are each managed locally. Heads of the libraries meet in the University Library Council, chaired by the Director of the Harvard University Library (HUL), to address University-wide library issues. For more information about services provided by HUL see Harvard University Library. See the Harvard Libraries site for a complete listing of all University libraries.
