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Library workers say a plan to move the Government Documents Department, commonly known as Gov Docs, from the Lamont Library basement to Littauer Hall would deter undergraduates from using the resource, and hurt the department’s service...
Those opposed to the Gov Docs move highlight the deleterious effects it would have on student users...
...There are a lot of disadvantages to students to have the Gov Docs materials in Littauer,” says Geoff Carens, a current Gov Docs employee and a representative of the Harvard Union for Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). “The physical environment there is terrible. Moving [the department] to Littauer makes it less available...
Beth Brainard, HCL’s director of communications, cautions that plans for Lamont as well as Gov Docs itself are tentative, but says that ideas about possible uses of the department’s space include the creation of a cafe and a general social area. While administrators emphasized the uncertainty of the Gov Docs relocation, a memo sent to library employees on October 3 cites the move as one of five steps HCL will take to lower expenditures...
According to Brainard, plans to relocate Gov Docs and install new facilities in its place are part of an effort to shape Lamont into a “service station for undergraduates...