Library & Research Services’ collections support the HKS mission, enabling and sharing our community’s scholarship. We collaborate with community members to create, grow, and improve our collections.
Explore Library Collections
Faculty Publications
HKS faculty share their research in publications that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation.
Community Voices & Perspectives
Reflecting HKS’s commitment to dialogue and understanding with books and films featuring the myriad of experiences, ideas, and histories represented at HKS.
Behind the Book
A video storytelling series illuminating books authored by HKS faculty for a worldwide audience.
Political Buttons
Over 7,500 buttons representing US political history from the late 1800s through today.
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
DASH is Harvard's open-access repository, hosting publicly available scholarship by HKS affiliates.
HKS Web Archive
A digital archive of HKS center websites, student publications, and historical issues of the HKS magazine.
Student Publications
A digital archive of historical student journals covering a wide variety of policy topics.
Support: LRS strives to meet the research and curriculum needs of HKS through communication and partnerships with faculty, students, fellows, and staff.
Inclusion: LRS works to foster inclusion among members of the community and actively engage in conversations to provide resources that meet the community’s continually changing and diverse needs.
Adaptability: LRS maintains awareness of the current and upcoming subject interests of HKS and is flexible and creative in providing access to materials in a variety of formats.
HKS Library & Research Services accepts donations of digital and physical items to our collection on a limited basis when they are compatible with our collecting philosophy and enhance or complete our selection efforts. We reserve the right to limit such gifts to those which are substantially beneficial and are cost-effective to receive, catalog, process, maintain, and preserve. We assume ownership of all donations and reserve the right to add donated materials to our collections or discard them as appropriate. Contact HKS Library & Research Services with interest.