Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel so strongly that a decision on the location of the Undergraduate Library should not be reached without full and open discussion, that I am taking the liberty of sending copies of this letter to the University Librarian, to the Provost, and to the Editors of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and the Harvard Service News...
...that went before, were only a mild beginning. The destruction of books and libraries in World War II "probably exceeds by many times the destruction of all previous wars and catastrophes put together." So report Librarians Milton E. Lord and Kenneth R. Shaffer in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Their findings...
...Bulletin recalls the world's outrage at the 1914 burning of Belgium's famed Louvain University Library-which resulted in a special clause in the Versailles treaty to compel the Germans to restock it. Amid the culture carnage of World War II, the second destruction of Louvain (in 1940) was a mere incident. What the Nazis didn't burn, bomb or pilfer from Europe's libraries, they fed into pulping machines to make new paper. The library of the Yugoslav Ministry of War was sold to a junk dealer for 180,000 dinars (about...
...Library buildings can and will be replaced," say the authors, "... the archives that record the history of a city or a nation may never be." Sometimes the very efforts of scholars to save their archives were what destroyed them. Reports the Bulletin: "When the great library of the Chapter of St. Thomas [in France] was threatened, it was hurriedly evacuated for storage in a rural area. There the books were destroyed ... by rain, mold, rats, mice and insects." The library itself was never damaged...
...Bender's bulletin warns that students must return their orders within 30 days to 9 Weld Hall, and "sing the order as a receipt for items obtained. If this is not done, the student will become personally responsible for bills incurred...