The Botany Libraries is the administrative unit created in 1988 which manages the five libraries of the Harvard University Herbaria. Those libraries are the combined Arnold Arboretum Main Library and the Library of the Gray Herbarium, the Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, and the Oakes Ames Economic Botany and Orchid Libraries. The Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library in Jamaica Plain works in close cooperation with the Cambridge libraries, but is managed separately.
These papers are the consolidated records of all of the libraries found in the librarians' files and organized by Judith Warnement, the Botany Librarian appointed in September, 1989. Included are annual reports, financial records, lists of items transferred, sold, and/or withdrawn from the collections, and other documentation describing the policies, practices, and issues addressed by the librarians and their colleagues, primarily between the years 1970 through 1989.
Archives Holdings Include:
Administrative Papers
Conservation
Directors Files
Exhibitions
Guest Books
Materials Management
Monthly Budget Statements
Permissions
Other Related Collections:
Harvard University Archives
