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...It’s not just open collections or open access as it goes according to the current formulas, but openness in general so that Harvard, which has these great intellectual riches, can share the wealth with the rest of the world,” says Darnton. But Darnton??new this year as director of the University Library—also sees much room for improvement with the current information systems. “Why can’t all dissertations be made fully accessible online? Why can’t we have lecture notes, and reserved reading...
...dynamic cultural centers.” “We need to...shape the scholarly landscape in flux, and make it happen for the public good,” he said in an appearance before some 200 library personnel at the Graduate School of Education. Darnton??s speech, “Old Books and E-Books,” came at a semesterly meeting of Harvard library personnel. In an interview before the event, Darnton said that the title of his speech evoked what he hoped to accomplish in his tenure as the University’s head...
...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’s students and scholars...
...Literary Underground of the Old Regime” and “The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France” to his name, Darnton brings strong academic assets to the position and recognition around the library world. But arriving this summer as a Harvard outsider, Darnton??after 40 years of teaching history at Princeton—will also face the challenge of managing money and politics across the more than 90 libraries of Harvard’s 10 faculties.In contrast to Darnton, Verba had more than a decade’s experience at Harvard when...
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