Drafting the Library

Building-related

Uris Library Historical Tour

A. D. White Library Tour

Olin@50: Early Days of the University Library

Collection-related and Archives-related

150 Ways to Say Cornell: 'the Library: the Culmination of All'

In the Founders’ Footsteps: Builders of the Cornell University Library--Andrew Dickson White

Legacy of Leadership: Cornell's Presidents--Charles Kendall Adams (CU President in 1891)

125 Years of Achievement: The History of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning--"My Pet Extravagance" (A. D. White and architecture)

Secondary Sources

E. Engst and M. Dimunation. A Legacy of Ideas: Andrew Dickson White and the Founding of the Cornell Library, 1996 (exhibition catalog)

Parsons, Kermit C. The Cornell Campus: A History of Its Planning and Development. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1968.

Primary Sources

Hewett, Waterman Thomas, 1846-1921. Cornell University, a History. New York: The University Publishing Society, 1905.

Cornell University. Exercises And Addresses At the Laying of the Corner Stone of the University Library Building. Ithaca, N.Y., 1889.

Cornell University. Exercises At the Opening of the Library Building: Containing: a Description of the Building; the Address of the Hon. Henry W. Sage, Presenting the Building And Its Endowment; the Address of Ex-President Andrew D. White, Presenting the White Library of History And Political Science; the Addresses of Acceptance by President Adams And Librarian Harris, Together With the Addresses of President D. C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, And Professor Moses Coit Tyler, October 7, 1891. Ithaca, 1891.

"What a University Library Ought to Be" Library Journal (Official journal of the American Library Association) Vol. 15, No. 7 (July 1890): 205-06.

[George W. Harris], "The New Library Building of Cornell University" Library Bulletin of Cornell University Vol. 2, No. 21 (November 1888), p. 143-144.

Harris, George W. "The New Library Building of Cornell University" Library Journal Vol. 14, No. 4 (April 1889): 121-124.

Catalogue of the historical library of Andrew Dickson White, first president of Cornell University (2 vols.), 1889-1894.

Harris, George W. , Acting Librarian, "Appendix III: Library" in Cornell University. Annual Report of the President of Cornell University for the Academic Year 188-89 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, 1889): 104-107.

"American Library Association" Library Journal Vol. 17, No. 12 (December 1892): 492.

University Librarian George W. Harris on Library Architecture committee of the American Library Association, to select examples of libraries to showcase at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893