Lamont Library

Lamont Library, in the southeast corner of Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, houses the Harvard Library's primary undergraduate collection in humanities and social sciences.

[1] It was the first library in the United States specifically planned to serve undergraduates.

[3] Lamont was built as part of a program to address dwindling stack space, and patron overcrowding, at Widener Library.

[2] Opened in 1949, it is named for its principal donor, Harvard alumnus Thomas W.

A modified Dewey classification scheme was used, and the main spaces included capacious open-shelf alcoves for browsing, study, and research.