Word: consortium
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James E. Skipper, who will head the Research Libraries Group consortium that includes Harvard, said yesterday that "If the issue is enjoining photocopying, then there are broad implications. It will simply be a large inconvenience for readers...
...Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday for a case that may have implications for the recently formed library consortium between the Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and New York Public library systems...
...purpose of the Research Libraries group, the consortium to which Harvard belongs, is to "provide improved access for the users of each library to resources in the other three," according to the Annual Report of the Director of the University Library...
...consortium intends to make resources available partly by photocopying materials...
...Died. Richard Whitney, 86, Harvard-educated, Depression-era Stock Exchange president and embezzler; in Far Hills, N.J. By wandering the floor of the exchange on "Black Thursday," Oct. 24, 1929, as the representative of a banking consortium, and bidding high on blue chip stocks, Whitney earned credit for temporarily stemming the 1929 crash. Elected president of the New York Stock Exchange, he lived regally, took to embezzling, and was convicted and sent to Sing Sing in 1938 in the scandal of the decade...