Name of repository
Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library
Address
125 Arborway
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Contact
Sheila Connor/Lisa Pearson
Telephone
617-522-1086
Fax
617-524-1418
Email
Sheila_Connor@Harvard.edu
Lisa_Pearson@Harvard.edu
Description of the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library
The Horticultural Library is a specialized research collection that supports
the curation, documentation, and study of the Arboretum's living collections
of woody plants and serves the Harvard community, Arboretum members,
and the public. The library contains more than 40,000 volumes and 25,000
photographs, and includes an archive that both documents the Arboretum's
history and serves as a repository for 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century
horticultural and botanical collections. Its collections are used by
a wide variety of patrons—scholars, researchers, biographers,
nurserymen, garden writers, and publishers—who are seeking information
about the plant world and related topics.
Description of Image Holdings
Over 25,000 images, dating from 1870 to the present, make up the library's
photographic collection. Many of these images document the Arboretum's
living collections and record the development of taxa within the collections.
The collection also includes views of the Arboretum's landscape.
Other important series include photographs as early as 1906 of collecting
expeditions to China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and other parts of the world
from which Arboretum plants have been collected. Selected photographs
are cataloged in Harvard's Visual Images Access database, VIA.
What's in VIA?
The Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library has cataloged approximately
6,600 images in OLIVIA in three major collections, South Central China
and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity 1 , Arnold Arboretum
Landscape Views 2 , and Nature of Eastern
Asia 3 .
How we use VIA
Each Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library "work" record in
VIA represents an original image. All of our VIA records are cataloged
fully on an item, or "work," level. Photograph cataloging is
based on the subject matter of the image itself. Any written information
on the photograph or its mount is captured in the catalog record and
current botanical nomenclature is included where applicable. Materials
and techniques headings are less specific than those applied by other
repositories, which reflects the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library's
interest in historical content over a focus on objects.
Permissions
The digital copies of any Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library image
found in VIA is for personal use only, and may not be sold, loaned,
copied or published without the express permission of the Arnold Arboretum
Horticultural Library, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University.
Reproduction
Arnold Arboretum/Horticulture Library (Jamaica Plain): Arnold Arboretum
Horticultural Library Historical Collections. Contact repository for
permissions and fees.
Copyright
If copyright for is held by the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library,
the VIA copyright statement will read:
Copyright © XXXX, President and Fellows of Harvard College, Archives
of the Arnold Arboretum; all rights reserved.
In selected instances, copyright is held by the photographer. In these
cases the copyright statement will read:
Copyright © Photographer’s Name, Year. Used with permission.
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- The images included in this LDI grant were from three sources, the Arnold Arboretum
Horticultural Library (approximately 650 images), the Harvard University Herbaria
(approximately 1900 total images copyrighted to David Boufford, Richard Ree
and Susan Kelley and used with permission) and the Harvard-Yenching Library
(approximately 350 images). The grant was initiated by the Arnold Arboretum
Horticultural Library and all the cataloging was done by a contractor employed
by the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library.
- Approximately 1500 images.
- This LDI grant is in currently in process. When it is completed,
approximately 4500 images will have been uploaded to VIA.
