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Despite one of its peer institution’s decisions to withdraw from the country’s most prominent association of librarians, Harvard College Library (HCL) administrators have decided to continue their membership in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL...
...ARL has provided information and assistance to research libraries in the United States and Canada since 1932. It regularly organizes educational symposiums for its members, briefing them on issues facing modern libraries while conducting massive national surveys of users...
...Aries in 1888 was a torpid provincial town, as filthy and exotic-at least to a Parisian eye as North Africa. Van Gogh's first reactions to it describe a foreign country. "The Zouaves, the brothels, the adorable little Arlésiennes going to their first Communion, the priest in his surplice, who looks like a dangerous rhinoceros, the people drinking absinthe, all seem to me creatures from another world." In fact, his stay there began the general pattern of migration southward that would be as obligatory for early modern French artists-Signac to Saint-Tropez, Matisse to Nice...
Annemarie's success story was as schmaltzy as a Viennese operetta. Born to a poor mountain-farm family in Klein-Arl near Salzburg, she was the sixth of eight children. When "Annemie" was 4, her father whittled her first pair of skis. "From then on," says her mother, "I hardly saw Annemie during the day. She even skipped breakfast to make a few runs before school began." She paid at best only minimal attention to her studies during her nine years of schooling, much preferring to test, and often beat the boys in climbing, skiing, even schoolyard brawling...
...recipients were Henry P. Gates, arl J. Green, David D. Grossman, ony M. Lanyi, Arthur M. Lesk, Jona- Middlebrook, Mark J. Mirsky Joseph ooney, William V. Nestrick, and d W. Pfaff...