Donate Materials
The Harvard Divinity School Library has paused acceptance of new archival and manuscript collections through December 2026 while we focus our efforts on making additional collections available from our current holdings of unprocessed collections. We invite prospective donors to contact library special collections staff in January 2027, when we will resume evaluating offers of archival and manuscript material. Please contact HDS Library Collection Services staff with questions.
The Harvard Divinity School Library collects non-active records related to the Unitarian Universalist tradition, as well as the records of other religious groups, organizations, and people, including HDS faculty papers.
For more information about the library's collecting guidelines and about preparing your materials for donation, review our downloadable PDF guide to donating materials.
We will also consider donations of books, but we are not able to provide appraisals. To learn more about rare books in general, see the website Your Old Books.
If you wish to donate materials to this library, please contact HDS Library Collection Services staff.
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