Nearly Four Million Harvard University Volumes Added to the Shared Collection of The Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) | The New York Public Library

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Summary:

"Nearly four million volumes held by Harvard University have been added into the shared collection of the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), a partnership between Columbia University, The New York Public Library (NYPL), Princeton University Library, and Harvard. Users of all four libraries can access the shared collection, now numbering nearly 17 million volumes, as though those items were in their own library. 

This means that Harvard Library users can now use the institution’s catalog, HOLLIS, to directly request materials in the shared collection at ReCAP contributed by any of the partner libraries, including the NYPL, its Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and its Library for the Performing Arts. 

For NYPL, this means researchers now have access to a total of 22 million research volumes: NYPL’s 11 million, plus the materials from Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton available via ReCAP.  In other words, the partnership and addition of Harvard's 3.6 million volumes essentially doubles NYPL’s research holdings, which are available to the public. ..."

Link:

https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/september-1-2021/four-million-harvard-university-volumes-added-shared-collection

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Tags:

oa.new oa.harvard.u hu.oa oa.nypl oa.recap oa.books oa.print oa.princeton.u oa.columbia.u

Date tagged:

09/02/2021, 12:59

Date published:

09/02/2021, 09:00