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...this reading period, I was forced to actually use Hilles for something other than a paper lantern; I was assigned a final paper for which every single source I needed to use was on reserve and not available for check-out. Prior to this I certainly had nothing against Hilles??I had used it once or twice before—but with my spacious single in Cabot House (Go fish!), I had little reason to seek out a private hovel for my studying (I had one). Being a Quadling with an exaggerated sense of distance, I knew Lamont...
Foremost are my worries about Hilles?? architecture. If there is a unique building on the College’s campus, it is Hilles. Stepping inside is like opening the cover of a copy of Architectural Digest from 1965; the building has an incredible unity of design, its clean and spare modernist lines extending from the gross structure of the building—evocative, in a way, of traditional Japanese homes—into the details of its original furniture. It is simultaneously massive and weightless, airy but enclosed. Unlike the other major Harvard libraries, its focal point...
...books and create a new “reading” room in the Quad Library. Not only would this be inefficient in terms of space (where the library is eliminating essentially all of its holdings and consolidating to a single floor) but would be practically sacrilege to Hilles?? amazing architectural pedigree. The architects who designed Hilles??Max Abramowitz and Wallace K. Harrison, a Worcester native—are also credited together or separately with the design or layout of Rockefeller Center, the United Nations Headquarters, and the Lincoln Center complex (including the Metropolitan Opera House...
...glaring concern with the new cutbacks involves Hilles?? future limited hours and holdings. Beginning in the fall, the library will be open from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Wednesday and 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays. On Saturdays, the library will be closed. This is troubling news...
...Hilles?? hours for next year were determined by examining current patterns of use at the library, said Brainard...