ABSTRACT

Archibald Cary Coolidge Hall, a modest brick building a few blocks from Harvard Yard, houses eight separate centers and institutes focusing on international studies. It is entirely fitting that the university chose to name this building for Coolidge, since as a faculty member he worked with singular zeal to establish the study of Russian, East European and East Asian history here in the early part of this century. And, as director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 through 1928, Coolidge developed an extraordinary acquisitions program, providing the foundation for Harvard’s present preeminence as the largest academic library in the world.