3. Books and Multimedia
There are millions of books in Widener Library's collection. Although
you will find something on every topic in the HOLLIS catalog, it's useful
to search "union" catalogs (i.e. large catalog databases that
include multiple libraries's materials) as well as bibliographies. Books
and materials that you don't find in the HOLLIS catalog can be requested
through Interlibrary
Loan. You may also make a purchase
request to ask the library to purchase a copy for the collection.
Resources marked with a 
symbol indicates that users with a Harvard PIN number may access the resources
from off-campus.
HOLLIS
HOLLIS, the library catalog of the Harvard University Libraries, contains million of records for books, journals, and other research materials. The database is updated continually as material is ordered, received, and cataloged. (The HOLLIS Catalog is also accessible via the Harvard Libraries site.)
Once in HOLLIS, to search for books on a particular topic, click on Expanded Search, in the menu at the top of the screen. In the Keywords from menu, select Anywhere and enter the words for which you want to search in the search windows.
More Searching Tips:
1. Put " " around words you want to search as a phrase.
2. Use a question mark “?” to find more results in a word search: chronol? (finds chronological, chronologies, chronology, etc.)
3. Once you've found a book in HOLLIS that interests you, click on its subject heading (labeled Subject on the screen) to find other, similar books on the topic.
For more information, consult the guide to Searching the HOLLIS (Harvard OnLine Library Information System) Catalog.
Other Library Catalogs
OASIS
Use this catalog to discover finding aids for archival and manuscript
collections at Harvard.
National Library of Ireland Catalogue
National Library of Wales Catalogues
Trinity College Library Catalogue
World Cat
WorldCat is a union catalog of records of any type of material (books,
periodicals, scores, films, recordings, etc.) cataloged by libraries,
primarily but not exclusively, in the United States.
Bibliographies
Lleyn, Gwilym. Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the
Books Printed in the Welsh Language, or Relating to Wales, from the Year
1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry).
Llanidloes: J. Pryse, 1869.
Location 1: Widener Library Stacks Celt 4000.7
Location 2: Robinson Celtic FNR 341.77
CSANA
Bibliography
Produced by the Celtic Studies Association of North American, this index includes a broad range of publications, including books, periodicals, Festschriften, proceedings and other works relevant to the study of Celtic languages and literatures.
Eager, Alan R. A Guide to Irish Bibliographical Material: a Bibliography
of Irish Bibliographies and Sources of Information. 2nd ed. London:
Library Association, 1980.
Location: Widener Library Loker Reading Room
RR 3724.2
Global Books
in Print with Reviews
(Bowker)
Books Ireland. Dublin: J. Addis, 1976 -. present.
Location 1: Widener Library Stacks WID-LC
Z 331 .B66x for Volumes 110 (1987) – present
Location 2: Harvard Depository: Request via HOLLIS
for volumes 1 (1976) to 109 (1986)
English
Short Title Catalogue
Contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies
from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century,
as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during
that period.
Irish Books in Print & Leabhair Gaeilge I gCló. Wicklow:
S & J Cleary, 1984 -.
Location 1: Widener Library Stacks WID-LC
DA 906 .Z99 I74x
Location 2: Robinson Celtic Z 2031 .I75
The Index
to Theses (Great Britain and Ireland)
Describes theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great
Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards from
1716 to date.
Irish Publishing Record. Dublin: School of Librarianship, University
College Dublin, 1967-1994.
Location: Widener Library Stacks WID-LC Z 2034 .I87x
North, John S. The Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and Periodicals.
Waterloo, Ont.: North Waterloo Academic Press, 1986.
Location: Widener Library Stacks WID-LC
PN 5144 .Z99 N67 x 1983
Electronic Texts
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
This database currently includes the full text of 60,000 pages of letters and diaries of 430 women, writing in English, from Colonial times to 1950.
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
Produced by the Department of History at University College, Cork, this
database "brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture
to the Internet, for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide." The searchable online database leads to the full-text primary texts, many in translation, as well as secondary resources
like tables of contents of Celtica and Éigse
Dafydd ap Gwilym
A phenomenal online edition of the works of Dafydd ap Gwilym, including modern Welsh and some English translation, all manuscript variations, detailed notes, recorded readings of the poems, and on and on. Created through the coordination of researchers from several Welsh universities.
Early English
Books Online (EEBO)
Pollard & Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England,
Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640 ("STC
I") and Donald Wing's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England,
Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed
in Other Countries, 1641-1700 ("STC II") and Thomason Tracts, which contains
more than 22,000 broadsides ranging from political speeches to religious
tracts to newspaper stories from the period 1640-60.
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Oxford's project includes digitized images of a number of early Irish and Welsh manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals. Highlights of this collection include The Red Book of Hergest, The Annals of Inisfallen, and Manus O'Donnell's Life of St. Colum Cille. Caveat: The quality of scanning is poor in some cases and some manuscripts are incomplete, but Oxford is aware and is addressing the problems (according to its website as of February 2007). PLEASE NOTE: Occasionally, you will get a "server busy" message when trying to connect, so patience is often necessary when accessing this site!
Eighteenth
Century Collections Online
Access to digital images of over a hundred thousand books published during
the 18th Century in the fields of history, literature, religion, law,
fine arts, science and more.
Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language 1500-1800
From Cambridge University, a selection of thirty Welsh texts chosen to reflect a diversity of styles and registers from the period.
Irish Script on Screen/Meamram Páipéar Ríomhaire
Provides access to digital images of a number of early Irish manuscripts housed in libraries in Ireland. Some texts that are available through this site include, The Book of Leinster (at TCD) and Lebor na hUidre/The Book of the Dun Cow (at the RIA), which contains the oldest version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne.
Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
This full-text collection includes poetry by Irish women writing in English between 1768 and 1842.
Literature
Online (Lion)
Literature Online's primary texts include poetry in English from 600 to
the present, American and African-American poetry from 1603 to the present,
The Faber Poetry Library, drama in English from 1280 to 1915, and prose
from 1500 to 1900.
Patrologia Latina Database
The Patrologia Latina contains all 221 volumes of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Series Latina which covers the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes.
Past Masters: Yeats' Collected Letters
This is the fully searchable, digitized version of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, edited by John Kelly and published in print by Oxford University Press.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
This database currently contains the full text of 60 volumes of romantic poetry by Scottish women writing in English, plus extensive contemporary critical reviews and material written specifically for this database by leading scholars.
Welsh Prose 1350-1425
From the University of Cardiff, this site includes transcriptions of Welsh prose from over 28 manuscripts, with a search engine and wordlist.
Dissertations
The resources listed below are general indexes to theses and dissertations,covering all topics including those on Celtic Studies. For a more detailed guide to finding dissertations, consult the guide Finding Dissertations and Theses.
HOLLIS
Harvard Archives holds all dissertations written at Harvard, including
those written by graduates of the Celtic Languages and Literatures Department.
Search HOLLIS using the keywords "Department Celtic Languages Literatures"
to see a sample. Contact the Harvard
Archives for more information.
Dissertations
and Theses Full-Text (Proquest)
Indexes dissertations and masters' theses from most North American graduate
schools as well as some European universities. Provides full text for
most indexed dissertations from 1990-present.For dissertations before
1990, request (free of charge) via Widener's Interlibrary
Loan.
Index to Theses
Abstracts of theses and dissertations accepted for Higher Degrees by the
Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National
Academic Awards. Includes all academic disciplines. Language and history
have Irish subcategories.
Retrospective Index to Theses of Great Britain and Ireland 1716-1950.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: American Bibliographical Center, Clio Press, 1975-.
Location: Widener Library Loker Reading Room
RR 705.101 F (folio)
St. Patrick's College. Library. A Complete List of Higher Degree Theses
Deposited in the Library 1930-1993. Maynooth: The Library, 1993.
Location: Harvard Depository: Request via HOLLIS
Audio and Visual Materials
The Celtic Department Audio Collection at Harvard Library
The link above leads to a list of the materials in this collection in HOLLIS. Materials are generally held in the Harvard Depository and may be requested for delivery to Widener by clicking on "Availability" and then on "Request". Most materials in this collection may be borrowed for an initial loan of 7 days, which may be renewed up to 5 times.
ARTstor
The ARTstor Digital Library includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
Harvard University Art Museums Collections Online
Provides access to basic information and many images of about about 81,000 works of art, more than half of the permanent holdings of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM). The HUAM includes the Busch-Reisinger Museum which is the only museum in America devoted to promoting the informed enjoyment and critical understanding of the arts of Central and Northern Europe, with a special emphasis on the German-speaking countries.
Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Global Sound is an international collection of all types of recorded sound. The tracks include folk, popular, and classical world music, non-musical recordings such as speeches and oral histories, and a variety of natural, animal, and human sounds. The collection can be searched with keywords and by geographic area, cultural group, instrument, and language.
Visual Information Access (VIA)
VIA is a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard and Radcliffe. It includes information about slides, photographs, objects and artifacts in the university's libraries, museums and archives. To date only portions of each repository's holdings are described in the online catalog. Where available, thumbnail images are linked to the catalog records.