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...think there’s this assumption that, particularly with special collections, that the more you put online the less reason people have to come and use the collections,” says Thomas A. Horrocks, Associate Librarian of Houghton Library for Collections. “That hasn’t proven to be true as we’re slowly but surely starting to digitize part of our collections...
...office in the basement of Houghton Library is dimly lit, crowded with Abraham Lincoln busts, portraits, and books. One might wonder if they’ve stumbled into an overcrowded gift shop. Yet as this keeper of special collections pulls up Web page after Web page on Houghton’s Web site, he emphasizes that the images on the screen can actually help bring the people into the building...
...that their vocation requires them to be as intimate with words as a carpenter with wood. It is the most immediate pleasure of a reading, the way the sound of an instrument pleases more immediately than the composer’s melody. I remember, when Simon Armitage read in Houghton Library earlier this semester, sitting in rapt attention to a repetitive poem (that I would have probably rushed through had I been reading it) simply by virtue the sound of his voice. I ended up savoring the repetition because he recited it so beautifully. Seamus Heaney’s reading...
Leslie A. Morris, the curator of modern books and manuscripts at Houghton Library, says the archive has exciting implication for Updike scholars, as news of two unpublished Updike novels, slated to come out in twenty years, have already been guaranteed to the Library for study. “There will be a lot of surprises, I’m sure,” she says...
Minimum fine, up from $75, for all lost library books and materials in the Harvard College Library, which includes Widener, Lamont, and Houghton. A new $10 “non-refundable billing fee” will also be added per item...