Physics Research Library
http://library.physics.harvard.edu/
Library hours
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| Physics Department Library |
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| Address: | 450 Jefferson Laboratory, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| Access Information: | Library access is limited to Harvard and MIT students/faculty/staff. Other scholars/researchers are welcome, but must first secure visiting rights with the librarian. Call 495-2878 for more information. Our circulation privileges are the same as the access policy. |
| Circulation Policy: | The loan period for all monographs is 28 days, regardless of the borrower's status.
Audio/visual items circulate for three days.
Items marked "Reserve" circulate overnight only.
Journals and other periodical publications do not circulate.
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| Holdings Description: | Summary description of collection: Selected books and periodicals in support of current research in experimental and theoretical physics.
MATERIALS NOT HELD:Applied physics, biophysics, astrophysics, chemical physics, and geophysics.
Size of collection: 13,200 monographs, including departmental PhD theses; 90 active serials titles; and 500 videorecordings (DVD and VHS).
Expanded description of collection: The library collects collects materials in all aspects of theoretical and experimental physics, such as atomic, molecular, and optical physics; nuclear and particle physics; physics of solids and fluids, mathematical and statistical physics; quantum mechanics; and relativity. Copies of departmental theses, as well as a small collection of videorecordinigs
(graduate courses, special lectures, etc.) are also available. |
| Services: | ILL POLICIES
Lending:
The library lends materials to other Harvard and non-Harvard libraries. Please contact us for more information at (617)495-2878.
Borrowing:
If an item (either book of journal article) is not available at PRL or any of the Cambridge Campus Harvard libraries, we will order it from elsewhere, free of charge. This service is only offered to members of the Physics Department.
PHOTOCOPIER
PRL photocopier is Crimson-Cash operated.
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| Resources for Persons with Disabilities: | The library is wheelchair accessible. |
| Directions: | http://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/directions.html |
| Link to map: | http://lib.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/3.html |
| Faculty (School) Affiliation: | Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
| Regular Term Hours | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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| closed | 9am - 5pm | 9am - 5pm | 9am - 5pm | 9am - 5pm | 9am - 5pm | closed |
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| Christmas Eve (Dec 24, 2009) | | | | | 9am - 12 noon | | |
| Holiday Hours (Dec 25, 2009 - Jan 3, 2010) | closed | closed | closed | closed | closed | closed | closed |
| Martin Luther King Day (Jan 18, 2010) | | closed | | | | | |
| Presidents' Day (Feb 15, 2010) | | closed | | | | | |
| Memorial Day (May 31, 2010) | | closed | | | | | |
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