Finding Microfilmed Titles in HOLLIS

To locate works microfilmed at Harvard:

  1. Choose one of the project titles listed below.
  2. Connect to HOLLIS, Harvard's online catalog.
  3. On the Search: Full Catalog screen, select "Title beginning with. . . " in the "Browse an Alphabetical List" panel, then enter the project title.
  4. Click on "Search." A simple search on a project title will pull up hundreds or thousands of records for individual works.

For example, a search of the project title "Harvard reading textbooks preservation microfilming project" retrieves a list of 4,950 items. The HOLLIS sample record below is one of those selected titles:

screenshot, HOLLIS search result

Note the three Locations for this title:

Gutman Education: Special Collections EducT 758.72.823 [paper copy]
Gutman Education: Film HRT 00012 [positive microfilm copy]
Master Microforms: Film Mas 22619 [negative microfilm copy]

Using information from the HOLLIS record, you may be able to borrow the paper copy or the postive microfilm copy, or purchase a positive microfilm copy made from the negative microfilm copy.

To purchase a microfilm copy when the title is not under copyright, contact the Imaging Services Business Office, telephone 617 495-3995, fax 617-495-0403, or e-mail imaging@fas.harvard.edu. For more information, see, "Access to Harvard University's preservation microfilm."

To limit a search (by year, for example):

  1. Select "Expanded Search" (near the top of the "Search: Full Catalog" screen).
  2. In the "Select Keywords from:" box, change "Anywhere" to "Series words."
  3. Enter the project title in the "Search for:" box.
  4. Enter beginning and ending dates the "Year Range:" boxes near the bottom of the screen.
  5. Click on "Search."

Note: The online help available in HOLLIS, Harvard's online catalog, suggests ways to formulate an efficient search. Open online help by clicking on "Help" at the top of any HOLLIS screen.

screenshot, HOLLIS search result

Connect to HOLLIS

Preservation microfilm project titles as listed in HOLLIS

Harvard anthropology preservation microfilm project
Harvard astronomy preservation microfilm project
Harvard Botany Libraries preservation microfilm project
Harvard Cabot Library preservation microfilm project
Harvard College Library history of science project
Harvard College Library international newspaper preservation microfilm program
Harvard College Library newspaper preservation microfilm program
Harvard College Library pamphlet preservation microfilm program
Harvard College Library pamphlet preservation microfilm program.
Boer War pamphlets
Harvard College Library pamphlet preservation microfilm program.
Italian history pamphlets
H.N. Gay collection of pamphlets relating to Leopardi
H.N. Gay collection of pamphlets relating to Manzoni
Harvard College Library preservation microfilm program (titles filmed 1997-2000)
Harvard College Library preservation microfilm program 2001
Harvard College Library preservation microfilm program 2002
Harvard College Library preservation microfilm program 2003
Harvard College Library preservation microfilm program 2004
Harvard College Library preservation microfilm program 2005
Harvard College Library preservation microfilm program 2006
Harvard College Library Ukrainian preservation microfilm project
Harvard economic botany preservation microfilm project
Harvard Ernst Mayr Library preservation microfilm project
Harvard forestry preservation microfilm project
Harvard medicine preservation microfilm project
Harvard pre-1920 social history business preservation microfilm project
Harvard pre-Soviet law preservation microfilm project
Harvard reading textbooks preservation microfilm project
Harvard Risorgimento preservation microfilm project
Harvard Russian and Soviet humanities preservation microfilm project
Harvard scientific biography preservation microfilm project
Harvard Securities and Exchange Commission annual reports preservation microfilm project
Harvard science and math textbooks preservation microfilm project
Harvard Slavic humanities preservation microfilm project
Harvard social history business preservation microfilm project
Harvard social studies textbooks color preservation microfilm project
Harvard social studies textbooks preservation microfilm project
Harvard Western European local history preservation microfilm project
Harvard Widener Library astronomy preservation microfilm project
Latin American pamphlet digital program at Harvard College Library.
Preservation microfilm collection
Latin American pamphlet digital program at Harvard University.
Preservation microfilm collection
Littauer Library Slichter Industrial Relations Collection preservation microfilm project.
International newspapers
McGill-Harvard-Yenching Library Ming-Qing women's writings digitization project.
Preservation microfilm collection
Open Collections Program at Harvard University. American Revolution.
Preservation microfilm collection
Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Women and work
Preservation microfilm collection
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