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...addition to Darnton, the panelists were Craig D. Silverstein ’94, Google’s director of technology; David Weinberger, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society; Sherry Turkle ’69, an MIT professor of social studies and technology. Harry R. Lewis ’68, a professor of computer science, moderated the discussion...
...facing a new world in which we need guidance,” said panelist Robert Darnton ’60, a history professor and director of the Harvard University Library. “I believe a lot of the guidance will come not from search mechanisms, though they are terrific, but from human beings called teachers...
...expenditures have ballooned. According to English Department chair James T. Engell ’73, the staff increases in FAS over the last six years have been roughly equivalent to the size of the entire Harvard College Library staff. The director of the Harvard University Library system, Robert C. Darnton ’60, even said that the libraries are “being bled to death.” Acquisition rates have fallen precipitously as the prices of published material and periodicals have rapidly increased, and the Harvard College Library lost 100 staff positions this past summer...
Robert C. Darnton ’60, the HUL director, director of the Harvard University Library, said that the impending report should be viewed not as a “blueprint” for the exact structural changes to be implemented in the library system, but as a foundational “step in a process” where professors can outline priorities and suggestions—echoing Smith’s stated hope that the report serve as an “opening” for broader discussion within the Faculty...
...Darnton said that Harvard’s library system is in “active discussion” with MIT about the possibility of collaborating with the peer institution’s libraries, noting that “no serious library can go it alone anymore.” Harvard is also considering collaborative efforts with libraries outside of the country, according to Darnton...