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...When looking at budgetary constraints,” said Beth S. Brainard, Harvard College Library (HCL) Director of Communications, “we wanted to accommodate to Quad students, but couldn’t justify keeping a full library open that was basically a duplicate of Lamont...
...Brainard said that HCL is “also very concerned about providing a library for Quad students, so what we did was try to determine the best way to still provide service. This decision was made with a lot of thought and input from FAS, students and administration...
...case a book, CD, video, or piece of equipment has been missed for some reason or other in the magnetization process, the guard is there to discover the mistake”—when they can. Even the director of communications for the libraries Beth Brainard admitted that, “this isn’t the ultimate security check.” In rare cases, the guards triumphantly recover an overdue book from the hands of a student anxiously scrambling to finish a late paper. Most of the time, though, the checker is just slowing people down...
...number for wet book emergencies—the library needs to eliminate one of its last barriers to becoming student-friendly. The library tries “to balance the rights and privacy of our users with the safety of our collections,” according to Brainard, yet such an ineffective search does little to justify the irksome intrusion on students. With the current attention on the libraries serving student needs, students need to let the libraries know that the unnecessary searches encroach on their time and privacy...
Over the summer, HCL will be assessing the possibilty of food in Lamont, Brainard said...