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| branch_of = Harvard College Library | items_collected = Primarily humanities and | collection_size = | criteria = | req_to_access = | annual_circulation = 600,000 items/year | country = United States | pop_served = | budget = | director = | num_employees = | website = (Widener Library ) | references = }} The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5million books in its "vast and cavernous" stacks, is the centerpiece of the Harvard College Libraries (the libraries of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and, more broadly, of the entire Harvard Library system. It honors 1907 Harvard College graduate and book collector Harry Elkins Widener, and was constructed by his mother after his death in the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' in 1912. The library's holdings, which include works in more than one hundred languages, comprise "one of the world's most comprehensive research collections in the humanities and social sciences." Its of shelves, along five miles (8km) of aisles on ten levels, comprise a "labyrinth" which one student "could not enter without feeling that she ought to carry a compass, a sandwich, and a whistle." At the building's heart are the Widener Memorial Rooms, displaying papers and mementos recalling the life and death of Harry Widener, as well as the Harry Elkins Widener Collection, "the precious group of rare and wonderfully interesting books brought together by Mr. Widener", to which was later added one of the few perfect Gutenberg Biblesthe object of a 1969 burglary attempt conjectured by Harvard's police chief to have been inspired by the heist film''Topkapi''. Campus legends holding that Harry Widener's fate led to institution of an undergraduate swimming requirement, and that an additional donation from his mother subsidizes ice cream at Harvard meals, are without foundation. ==Background, conception and gift== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Widener Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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