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...said that the Harvard Corporation’s low endowment payout, the static rate of subventions, or grants, from FAS, the rising costs of acquisitions and the recently increased fringe benefit rate have all contributed to HCL??s significant budget deficit...
...into a new media center. This move has been in the air for some time now, and age has not improved the lackluster impression it gives—that it is a waste of resources. But another bad idea is surely also providing plenty of water-cooler conversation among HCL??s management. Some library administrators want to move the Government Documents Collection (Gov Docs)—the research and statistic hub utilized by social science students, currently located in the basement of Lamont—to Littauer Hall, a building in the North Yard...
...research librarian for the collection attests that some 90 percent of his clients are indeed undergraduates. Since Gov Docs provides research materials on national data, students from various social science departments use it as a resource. With usage studies seemingly out of date, and without direct consultation with students, HCL??s push to move Gov Docs seems to have little student interest motivation. In fact, the plan actually weakens the service Lamont Library offers to undergraduates by removing the resource out of the heart of the undergraduate library system...
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...
Sidney Verba, chair of the Faculty Library Committee, says measures to curb spending have taken place on all levels of the HCL??s operation, including an increased reliance on outsourced cataloging, a minimization of book preservation to a “viable core” and the canceling of duplicate journal subscriptions...