Library Research Guide for Ali S. Asani's Islamic Civilizations 241r : Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam
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Online Research Tools
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Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts (ALA-LC Romanization Tables) : these are scanned, full-text, transliteration tables for Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and other languages.
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Citation Linker: an online form using pieces of a bibliographic citation, this automatically links you to either the electronic full text of a journal article, or to the HOLLIS record showing which Harvard libraries own it.
Chicago Manual of Style: the fully searchable online version of the 15th edition of this style manual.
RefWorks: a web-based bibliographic management program that allows Harvard researchers to create personal databases of citations, abstracts, images, and other materials in electronic form, and to integrate these sources into bibliographies, articles, etc. written with Word and other word processors. For in-depth online assistance with using Refworks, please see: Using RefWorks at Harvard.
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Columbia Gazetteer of the World: provides descriptions of more than 165,000 places in the world.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online: authoritative references, articles not in the print, and links to other web sites selected by Britannica editors.
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online: over 13,000 articles on topics in Islamic studies.
Encyclopaedia of Islam Three: the third edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.
Encyclopedia of the Qur’an: English language encyclopedia covering all aspects of the Qur’an including qur’anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis as well as essays on important themes and subjects within qur’anic studies.
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online: reflects current research on gender studies and the Islamic world across history, geographic borders, and disciplines.
Europa World: The Europa World Year Book Online: information on over 250 countries & territories & profiles of 1650+ international organizations.
Google Books: search for a book and look at: About This Book -- you'll be surprised to see what you find.
Google Scholar: contains many research quality full-text journals; using this proxied Harvard link into Google Scholar lets you get that full-text for free (rather than having to pay for it going the regular Google Scholar route).
Harvard Libraries Web Portal: the online gateway to the library resources of Harvard University.
Library of Congress Online Catalog: what it says.
Oxford English Dictionary: an historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online: features articles, biographies, primary texts, Qur'anic materials, and books by scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture.
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection: contains dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online): the most comprehensive biographical database with information on persons, families, and groups from all classes and professions, from all countries and regions of the world, from the 4th millennium BC to the 20th century.
WorldCat: a union catalog of books, periodicals, scores, films, etc. cataloged by over 41,000 OCLC libraries in the US and 82 other nations.
Bibliographic Tools
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Chicago Manual of Style: searchable online version of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.
Endnote (link for downloading the software; requires Harvard University ID and PIN): a commercial reference management software package for managing bibliographies and references.
Using Endnote at Harvard: an HCL research guide.
RefWorks: a web-based bibliographic management program, allows users with a Harvard ID and PIN to create a personal database of citations and to integrate these sources into bibliographies, articles, etc. written with Word and other word processors.
Using RefWorks at Harvard: an HCL research guide.
HOLLIS Subject Searches
There is a very wide array of subjects in the online HOLLIS catalog you can use to do research in this course. To give you some beginning ideas, here's a set of linked subject heading searches -- click the links, and then follow the subject heading links within individual records to expand your searching and find related materials:
South Asia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Use Expanded Search in HOLLIS to limit your searches by language, format, library, and date.
For detailed instruction in searching HOLLIS, see the guide, Searching the HOLLIS (Harvard OnLine Library Information System) Catalog.
Transdisciplinary Resources
Academic Search Premier: a multi-disciplinary database with citations & abstracts from 4,700+ scholarly journals with full text for more.
British Periodicals: by 2008 British Periodicals Collection I and II together "will offer facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th - early 20th centuries."
Bibliography of Asian Studies: holds more than 545,000 records on all subjects related to East, Southeast, and South Asia from 1971 to the present (primary disciplines covered are in the humanities and social sciences).
Citation Indexes / Web of Science: a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences, social sciences and arts. You can search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest): indexes dissertations and masters' theses from most North American graduate schools as well as some European universities from 1861 to the present. Provides full text for most indexed dissertations from 1990-present. For assistance in finding dissertations and theses in other countries, please see the online guide, Finding Dissertations and Theses.
Education Abstracts: indexes and abstracts articles from more than 535 English-language journals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. Also includes full text from about 200 journals.
ERIC: a major resource for research in all areas of education.
Google Book Search: lets you search the full text of all books available in Google Book Search (whether contributed by Harvard, another library, or the publisher), with aat Harvard University link displayed on every item in a search result set. Clicking the link brings you to the catalog record if an exact match is found in HOLLIS. If an electronic version of the book has been licensed by Harvard, you will be taken directly to the full text of the e-book.
Google Scholar: not just Google — this is full of scholarly articles using Google's search system, with the bonus that if you enter via this link Google recognizes you as a Harvard searcher... so you get full-text for free.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost): full text of 2,000 journals in a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, and multi-cultural issues.
PsycINFO: indexes and provides abstracts for the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines (psychiatry, education, linguistics, neurosciences, etc.)
Anthropology Resources
Anthropology Plus (RLG): bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture.
AnthroSource: contains full-text of journals and newsletters published by the American Anthropological Association.
EHRAF World Cultures (Human Relations Area File): contains the full text of books, periodical articles, manuscripts, and dissertations and theses on selected cultures of the world.
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, editors: David Levinson, Melvin Ember. 1st ed. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1996.
JSTOR Anthropology: search the full text of 23 journals in anthropology.
Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies: an to research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa, with some material on nearby countries.
Arts Resources
Art Full Text (Wilson): an index of articles from art and architecture periodicals published throughout the world with full-text for some, and indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984): cumulates citations from the printed version of the Art Index, volumes 1-32 (1929-1984).
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) (1975-): a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities indexing 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
ARTstor: includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (CSA): journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, historic preservation, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online): digital images and detailed descriptions for over 115,000 works of art from major museums in the United States and Canada.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: reference source for world music: 9,000 pages of material, 700 entries by expert contributors. Content includes audio examples, illustrations, photographs, and drawings, song texts and score examples, charts and maps of world regions.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online: a comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the 1990s.
Grove Music Online: an integrated music resource that includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition).
Index to Printed Music: Collections and Series: contains approximately 135,000 records searchable by multiple musical access points.
International Index to Music Periodicals: draws content from 400 international music periodicals from over 30 countries, and indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The NY Times and The Washington Post.
International Index to the Performing Arts: a multidisciplinary electronic index to the performing arts periodical literature with abstracts to current articles.
JSTOR Architecture and Architectural History : search the full text of 14 journals in architectural history.
JSTOR Music: search the full text of 38 music journals.
JSTOR Performing Arts: search the full text of 8 journals in the performing arts.
Music Index Online: citations to articles, book and record reviews, first performances, and obituaries from over 690 international music periodicals covering a wide range of historical, musicological, and ethnomusicological topics.
Naxos Music Library: provides online streaming audio access to the entire Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogs of over 85,000 tracks, including classical music, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCOhost Interface): an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines in 202 languages.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600: a worldwide effort to identify and describe the world's musical sources, including manuscripts, printed music, writings about music in libraries, archives, monasteries and private collections.
Smithsonian Global Sound: an international collection of all types of recorded sound.
Cultural Resources
Contemporary Women's Issues: provides full text access to a variety of English-language sources concerned with women's issues in 190 countries.
EHRAF World Cultures (Human Relations Area File): contains the full text of books, periodical articles, manuscripts, and dissertations and theses on selected cultures of the world.
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, editors: David Levinson, Melvin Ember. 1st ed. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1996.
Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World, edited by Amiram Gonen. 1st American ed. New York: H. Holt, 1993.
Encyclopedia of World Cultures, David Levinson, editor in chief. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1991-1996.
ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966-): indexes articles from over 800 education journals as well as 13,000 documents (conference papers, research reports, state, federal, and local education documents, selected books, etc.).
Ethnic NewsWatch: an interdisciplinary and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. You'll find historical subjects (like piracy) covered here, too.
Family and Society Studies Worldwide: a database on family and gender related topics, indexing publications from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work.
GenderWatch: a full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women: an Annotated Bibliography & Research Guide, by Tahera Aftab. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008.
Andover-Harv. Theol HQ1735.3 .A36 2008
Gibb Islamic BP173.4.Z99 A38 2008x
Widener OL 330.5 Bd. 91
JSTOR Sociology: search the full text of 46 sociology journals.
LGBT Life with Full Text: provides indexing and abstracts for over four hundred magazines, academic journals, news sources, gray literature, and books that deal with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender concerns.
Sociological Abstracts (1963-): includes citations and abstracts from over 1800 journals, relevant dissertations, selected books and book chapters, and association papers, as well as citations for book reviews and other media.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts: a database version of the bi-monthly journal, published by Taylor and Francis, provides access to abstracts from 1995.
Women's Studies International: a variety of essential women's studies databases which range in coverage from classic works & core studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.
Documentaries and Films
To search for films in HOLLIS, go into Expanded Search, and in the first search box type: dvd
and then select Form/Genre from the pull-down list of keywords. Then type the topic you want to search for in the next search box.This is just a selective listing of films available to you in the Harvard libraries. Click each link to see the full HOLLIS record with descriptions for these films:
Abar ashibo phire [videorecording] = Way back home / International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam presents; a Perspective Production; a film by Supriyo Sen ; script and direction, Supriyo Sen. Audiovisual Persepective, c2004. [In Bengali with English subtitles.]
Widener Harvard DepositoryCalcutta [videorecording] / réalisation, Louis Malle; production Nouvelles Éditions de Films. New York, N.Y.: Criterion Collection, [2007]
Lamont Morse Music & Media DVD DS486.C2 C35 2007xThe Diya in the Dargah [videorecording] / produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust for and in partnership with the Prasar Bharati Corporation; direction, script & narration, Trisha Das. New Delhi: Public Service Broadcasting Trust, c2002.
At the time of this guide writing, this item is Ordered—Received. Please click on the title link to go to the HOLLIS record for more information, and, if you want to obtain the DVD, click the Availability link in the HOLLIS record to request it.Final Solution [videorecording] / ACT, Associated Cinema & Television presents a film by Rakesh Sharma ; produced by Rakesh Sharma; direction, editing, research, Rakesh Sharma. Mumbai, India: Rakesh Sharma, c2004. [In Gujarati with English subtitles.]
Kennedy Sch of Gov DVD Collection Final SolutionFor a Place Under the Heavens [videorecording] / a film written and directed by Sabiha Sumar; a VIDHI Films/Unlimited production; in association with ZDF/ARTE. New York: Women Make Movies (distributor), 2003.
Widener Harvard Depository MV 364Forging a New Identity [videorecording] / produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust for and in partnership with the Prasar Bharati Corporation; script & direction, Sabia Khan ; co-director, Sabiha Farhat. [New Delhi] : Public Service Broadcasting Trust, c2003.
At the time of this guide writing, this item is Ordered—Received. Please click on the title link to go to the HOLLIS record for more information, and, if you want to obtain the DVD, click the Availability link in the HOLLIS record to request it.Hello Photo [videorecording] / a film by Nina Davenport. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, 2005.
Widener Harvard DepositoryIndia [videorecording] / written and presented by John McCarthy; executive producer, Nick Stuart ; written and directed by Geoff Dunlop. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2004.
Widener Harvard DepositoryLiving on a Prayer [videorecording] / Doordarshan presents ; PBST, Public Service Broadcasting Trust ; The Open Frame; directed by Karamjeet Singh, Niru Singh; written by Niru Singh; produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust for and in partnership with the Prasar Bharti Corporation. New Delhi : Public Service Broadcasting Trust, 2003.
Widener Harvard DepositoryOur Own Eyes [videorecording] / by Ranu Sharma. New Delhi: Public Service Broadcasting Trust, [2003]
Widener Harvard DepositoryPower of Place [videorecording]: World Regional Geography / produced by Cambridge Studies in collaboration with ABC-TV Open Learning, Australia; series advisors, H.J. de Blij and Peter O. Muller. [S. Burlington, VT]: Annenberg/CPB Project, c1996.
Widener Harvard Depository XWV 325 [Consult Circ. Desk for HNLK93]The Rock Star & the Mullahs [videorecording] / Storyville; [an October Films Ltd. production for Thirteen/WNET New York ; produced and directed by Ruhi Hamid and Angus Macqueen]. London: October Films, [2006]
Loeb Music Archive of World Music DVD 58
Economics Resources
British Periodicals: by 2008 British Periodicals Collection I and II together "will offer facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th - early 20th centuries."
Coin and Conscience: Popular Views of Money, Credit and Speculation :an exhibition catalog issued by Baker Library (Harvard Business School) in 1986 with digital images of prints from the Bleichroeder Collection. The collection includes more than 1,000 woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs ranging in date from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Many prominent artists are represented in the collection, including Breughel, Goltzius, Rembrandt, Hogarth, and Gillray, to name a few.
EconLit (CSA): a bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature; includes coverage of over 600 journals as well as articles in collective volumes.
JSTOR Economics: search the full text of 53 economics journals.
Making of the Modern World, 1450-1800 digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
Oxford Reference Online: Economics and Business: dictionaries and encyclopedias on business and economics published by Oxford University Press.
Historical Resources
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: provides access to digital images of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century, with full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages.
Empire On-Line: provides access to images of original documents and printed materials relating to the British Empire in Africa, Australasia, the Americas, Oceania, and South Asia.
Historical Abstracts: a reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Historical Journal: full text online from 1958 forward.
Historical Newspapers Online: three major historical resources: Palmer's Index to the Times (from 1790 to 1905 in The Times); The Official Index to the Times (taking coverage forward from 1906 to 1980); and The Historical Index to the New York Times which covers The New York Times from 1851 to September 1922.
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook: a listing of links to aspects of the history of Islam; also includes translations of source texts, and articles.
JSTOR History: search the full text of 72 history journals in JSTOR.
New Pauly Online: covers the ancient world from the prehistory of the Aegean to Late Antiquity.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile: provides access to a growing number of periodical, newspaper, patent and government document indexes from the US and UK.
Oxford Reference Online: History: dictionaries, companions, and encyclopaedias on history published by Oxford University Press.
Literature Resources
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online: an index to poems in anthologies, together with 13,000 poems in full text.
Contemporary Literary Criticism: covers selected novelists, poets, critics, dramatists, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after 1959.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism: an alphabetically arranged survey of literary criticism and theory, with entries for individuals, critical topics, movements, theories, and contributions of specific countries and periods.
JSTOR Folklore: search the full text of 5 folklore journals.
JSTOR Language & Literature: search the full text of 75 journals in language and literature.
Linguistic Bibliography Online: provides bibliographical references to scholarly publications on all branches of linguistics and all the languages of the world, irrespective of language or place of publication.
Linguistics Abstracts Online (1981-): provides abstracts from more than 400 leading linguistics journals in a variety of linguistics fields covering articles written from 1985 to the present.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA): indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles from over 1200 journals annually in all areas of language and linguistics.
MagillOnLiterature Plus: contains a large collection of literary resources including review essays, plot summaries, character descriptions, and short biographical sketches of fiction writers, poets, dramatists, and philosophers.
MLA International Bibliography / Modern Language Association (1926-) (EBSCOhost): bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present.
South and Southeast Asian Literature: a growing collection of literature written in English by writers from or culturally identifed with South and Southeast Asia.
World Literature Online: a cross-searchable collection of full-text databases covering literatures of place, race, and gender, allowing users to explore the rich literary heritage of Africa and its Diaspora, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and other regions.
Political Science Resources
AccessUN: an index of United Nations documents and publications including documents from the six main bodies of the United Nations - General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice. Full text of selected documents are available online.
British Periodicals: by 2008 British Periodicals Collection I and II together "will offer facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th - early 20th centuries."
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO): a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
CountryData.com: provides over 75 country risk-related variables including political, economic, financial and government stability. Also includes domestic and international economic indicators, social indicators, ICRG Risk Ratings and Coplin-O'Leary Forecasts.
International Political Science Abstracts: provides abstracts of political science articles published in scholarly journals and yearbooks worldwide. Topics include method and theory; political thinkers and ideas; political and administrative institutions; political processes; international relations; and national and area studies.
JSTOR Political Science: search the full text of 43 political science journals.
JSTOR Population Studies: search the full text of 10 population studies journals.
Left Index Online: offers access to a broad range of literature from the political left, with a primary "emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship" and a secondary emphasis on "significant but little known sources of news and ideas."
PolicyFile: provides abstracts (more than half of the abstracts link to the full text documents) of domestic and international public policy issues.
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) International: indexes the public and social policy literature of public administration, political science, economics, finance, international relations, law, and health care.
World Development Indicators Online: contains statistical data from the World Bank for almost 600 development indicators and time series data from 1960 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.
World News Connection: provides online access to full text English translations of current non-U.S. media sources.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts: indexes the international serials literature in political science and its related fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
Religious Resources
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (1881-): indexes journal articles, essays, and book reviews in the field of religion. Citations cover all religions and all theological points of view.
Divinity School Library Home Page
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online: over 13,000 articles on topics in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (Hartford Seminary): "attempts to bring together in a single-volume compendium a state-of-the-art summary of the insights gained by the principal social sciences of religion: anthropology, psychology, and sociology."
Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an: English language encyclopedia covering all aspects of the Qur’an.
Index Islamicus: a bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world, from 1906 to the present. Earlier years from 1665 to 1905 are available in print.
JSTOR Philosophy: search the full text of 26 philosophy journals.
JSTOR Religion: search the full text of 26 journals in the study of religion.
Oxford Reference Online: Religion and Philosophy: titles include: A Dictionary of the Bible, The Oxford Companion to the Bible, The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.
Philosopher’s Index: the major indexing source for scholarly research in philosophy, with bibliographic information for journal articles and major articles from anthologies and books published since 1940.
Religious Statistics: Reference Books and Other Resources: a guide created by Andover-Harvard Theological Library
Visual Collections
AP Multimedia Archive (AccuNet): a searchable database of over 700,000 Associated Press photographs, charts and other graphics from the 1840s to the present.
ARTstor: includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online): digital images and detailed descriptions for over 115,000 works of art from major museums in the United States and Canada.
The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China: over 1000 photos of Muslims and Christian missionaries working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s form the core of this collection, which is supplemented by several hundred books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc., in several languages. The albums and photographs can be viewed in the VIA online catalog. A finding aid to the printed materials can be viewed in the OASIS online catalog.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online: a comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the 1990s.
Internet Archive: a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost): full text of 2,000 journals in a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, and multi-cultural issues.
Visual Information Access (VIA): a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard and Radcliffe.
WikiMedia Commons: a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files.
Research Contact
Please do get in touch with me for further research assistance. You can find me in Widener Library, as follows:
Cheryl LaGuardia, claguard@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-4226. My office is on the second floor of Widener Library in Research Services East, just off the Atkins Reference Room.
Michael Grossman, mgrossm@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-2437. My office is on the third floor of Widener Library in the Middle Eastern Division.
Many thanks to Raymond Lum for his contributions to this guide.