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Harvard Law School Library’s Institutional Data Initiative is working with Boston Public Library to digitize 5,000 documents by the end of 2025, as reported by NPR.   “The documents date back to the early 1800s and include oral histories, congressional reports and surveys of different industries and communities,” says the Aug. 11 article. Read the full

August 12, 2025

In late 2022, staff in the Harvard Law School Library’s Historical and Special Collections and Digital Initiatives departments began processing and digitizing the professional papers of Charles J. Ogletree Jr. HLS’78 (1952-2023), former Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. The Ogletree family donated the collection to the library in 2022. The

July 25, 2025

‘HLS Beyond’ was developed by the Harvard Law School Library and is an innovative program that seeks to equip HLS students with ideas and skills that expand their humanity as citizens and future leaders in the legal field and beyond. Through smaller-scale, interactive sessions led by faculty, alumni, staff, and students themselves, the HLS student

July 3, 2025