College libraries?

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Drawing a bit on the theme of the earlier post on adult education, I was wondering something slightly different.

I'm about to start a master's program online, and the degree requirements will mean that I have to have access to a college library. Tufts is the most convenient, but Harvard is pretty convenient too, as I work and live on the red line.

Anyone know anything about getting access to these university's libraries as a non-student? This isn't my only source of information, but we've got a pretty diverse crowd here and I thought someone might know a bit about it.

Comments

[siderea]

Well, in their defense (good grief, I'm defending Widener?!), Harvard was founded in 1640 or so and doesn't seem to have caught on to the idea of taking books out of circulation. There are things on the circulating shelves of Widener that other institution put in their rare book rooms.