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Because the HKS Library primarily houses more recently-published books—Widener and other Harvard libraries tend toward historic collections??HKS was able to create study space by weeding out books and journals. All books that were removed are no longer current and already available through other Harvard libraries, and all journals removed are available online or in stable repositories, according to Heather McMullen, director of library and knowledge services...
...public poll to select the best work of fiction that had won the award. To make the short list for this poll, the National Book Foundation balloted a number of select writers to pick their three favorite winners. Interestingly, four out the six books chosen were short story collections??the collected stories of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and John Cheever respectively. Only two were novels—Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” and Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man?...
...said the museum’s “spirit collections?? that preserve specimens in alcohol—invertebrate zoology, herpetology, and ichthyology—will not move because alcohol cannot be housed below grade, in accordance with fire regulations...
...role of Robert C. Darnton ’60—the head of the University library system, who is technically in charge of all of Harvard’s collections??is more to facilitate collaborative enterprises, like when Harvard’s various libraries pooled their money to create the unified, electronic Hollis catalog in the 1990s...
...Harvard has a Picasso?” This is the sort of epiphany that Lynne A. Stanton wants Harvard undergraduates to have. As coordinator of public education with the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), Stanton is charged with getting more students to explore the University’s enormous collections??an objective that will be increasingly difficult given the fact that the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums will close this summer for four years of renovations.The looming closures notwithstanding, Stanton says that undergraduate interest in the art collections has increased in recent years, in large part...