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...Professor Darnton seemed born for this position,” Hyman, who chaired the advisory committee for the search, wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday. “He is a profound scholar, a historian and lover of the book, who is also quite at home with bits and bytes...
Robert C. Darnton ’60, a Princeton historian specializing in 18th-century France, has been chosen to lead the Harvard University Library, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced yesterday afternoon...
Robert C. Darnton '60, a historian of 18th-century France from Princeton, will serve as the director of the Harvard University Library, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced Tuesday afternoon...
...Harvard University Library is one of the country’s greatest intellectual assets, but it is enormously complex and expensive. It must maintain its leadership while helping to shape the new information society of the 21st century," Darnton said in a statement. “Having, as a historian, studied the world of books in the distant past, I now have an opportunity to do something for the cause of books and book learning in the present...
...Rowan’s a very talented young man, and I think he’ll be a great historian,” she added, saying she could “very easily” see his thesis being published...