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...incoming HUL director, Robert C. Darnton ’60, who studies the history of books at Princeton, is on a lecture tour in Ireland and was unavailable to comment for this story. Cline says she feels that she and Darnton share “a commitment to bringing in additional monies, whether it’s through grants or gifts, so we can accelerate our agenda on certain fronts...
Robert C. Darnton ‘60 was recently announced as Verba’s successor. As the head of Harvard’s massive and sprawling network of libraries, Darnton will face the immense challenge of living up to Verba’s legacy and making Harvard’s collection increasingly accessible and usable. The ongoing project of digitization will be the most visisble project of Darnton’s tenure, but less prominent issues such as dealing with budget and space constraints and facilitating online course-packs will have a similarly important impact on Harvard?...
...joked that prior to becoming Harvard’s chief librarian, he thought of libraries like he thought of supermarkets—he knew he needed what was on the shelves but had no idea how it got there. The same cannot be said of his successor, Robert C. Darnton ’60, whose prior expertise in the study of books field is a rare asset for a professor starting his term as director of the University Library.With volumes including “The Literary Underground of the Old Regime” and “The Forbidden Best...
...outsider, Darnton will be faced with an unusually delicate administrative task. Each of the individual faculties of Harvard funds its own library, while the University Library is a department of the central administration. Darnton will need to bring together a decentralized set of Harvard libraries over which he does not exert direct budgetary authority...
...Although Darnton is considered the chief steward of Harvard’s library collections, his department’s budget is significantly smaller than the Harvard College Library (HCL), the library of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). According to the annual report from 2004-2005, the most recent available, the University Library’s budget was $16.1 million while HCL’s budget was $72.7 million...