Word: brainard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will be moved to the lower level of the Sackler Museum in early June, and will reopen there on June 15. “This collection is heavily used by the faculty for teaching purposes, so this being in the Sackler is logistically great” says Beth S. Brainard, spokesperson for the Harvard College Libraries, who added that the design school will also benefit from proximity to these materials.The books, photographs, and graphic images will go to the basement of the Littauer building in the North Yard, which formerly held the economics and government departmental library, now housed...
...College libraries outside the Houses have had to take similar steps to cut costs. “We will have to reduce our budget by 15 percent and plan for an additional 16 percent reduction over the next two fiscal years,” Harvard College Library spokeswoman Beth Brainard said. Much like Kirkland library, the Quad library has given work-study students priority, according to Chika A. Okoro ’11. Okoro is on the advisory board of the Student Organization Center at Hilles, where the Quad library is located. She said that the hiring restrictions made...
...Arts and Sciences—came five days before Tuesday’s town hall meeting, where FAS Dean Michael D. Smith unveiled a shift from small cost-reduction measures to a sweeping reevaluation of FAS structure in the face of a $220 million deficit. HCL spokeswoman Beth Brainard said the plans for consolidation were “not associated with the budget.” Even before the financial crisis hit Harvard, library officials had been entertaining the idea of revamping the structure of the science libraries to create greater efficiency, she said. The consolidation of services and collections...
...unable to avoid layoffs this spring. For now, the move will require the displacement of the 17 workers in the Widener serial services division, which catalogs incoming periodicals, to a Central Square facility currently occupied by HCL’s technical services unit, according to HCL spokeswoman Beth Brainard. To encourage further cost-cutting, administrators and senior managers of HCL—a centralized group of libraries within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—are eliminating print subscriptions for materials that can be found online, ceasing unnecessary purchases of duplicate books, and making reductions in binding, shelving...
...Lamont Cafe and the other near the reference desk on Level B. If the pilot program is successful, Information Technology Services will set up printing from laptops in other Harvard College libraries. The initiative has been in the works for six months, according to Harvard College Library spokeswoman Beth Brainard. “When printers were set up 10 years ago, laptops just weren’t so prevalent,” she said. “With the growing number of laptops it just makes sense to let students print from their laptops.” But students studying...