Word: rare
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...rare books collection is all relative; it depends on what's valuable," Schmidt added, saying. "This library has things Houghton wouldn't put in Houghton because they are only valuable to anthropologists...
...Unless you ask questions of the staff, you will miss lots of things a rare books collection," emphasizes. Nancy Schmidt, head librarian of the Tozzer Memorial Library of ethnology and archaeology...
Although the library recently doubled its shelf space for rare books, the collection is the smallest at Harvard. Other gems include the travel logs of explorers like Captain James Cook and 19th century plans of archaeological excavation sites...
...Yenching Library offers Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and South Vietnamese literature ad infinitum. It houses the world's largest aggregation of Buddhists scriptures, assembled by Tibetan and Mongolian monks. The curator of the Yenching rare books collection, Sydney Tai, says he would be willing to show visitors treasures as old as the 7th century Sung Dynasty or as capacious as a 10,000 volume rare encyclopedia of Chinese history. This collection owns certain artifacts that even the people of China do not possess, according to Tai. There's only one hitch: almost all the scrolls and manuscripts are printed in Asian...
Aside from John Harvard, the College's most famous rare book lover was Harry Elkins Widener '07, whose mother's donation provided the means for Widener Library. The Widener Memorial Room, the inner sanctum of the colossal library, now contains the prize possessions of the late bibliophile...