Word: houghtons
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...conference, "Human Rights and African-American Religious History," was organized in honor of Preston Noah Williams, who has served as Houghton Professor of Theology since...
...Shelter (Houghton Mifflin; 279 pages; $21.95), Phillips continues to ladle on the prose: "In the splintering pour of the storm there is such a silence, like a church or a cell, a cloister, empty, and rain courses down the broken glass of the block-paned windows. Some of the jagged glass juts up like tongues, other panes are shattered intact, jeweled in their frames in webbed configurations." You know -- it was raining...
...head of Houghton Library Richard Wendorf says that before the recon project, a number of Houghton books were only "minimally described" in card catalogues, which are now "fully catalogued" on HOLLIS. Errors in the on-line system are inevitable, Wendorf says, but Houghton has a "very knowledgeable staff" to help diffuse any confusion...
With the onset of modern technology in Harvard libraries, there is "more of a need for reference librarians," says Houghton senior rare book cataloguer Hugh Amony. Librarians are trained to use specific techniques to probe for information which readers may not be aware of, Amory says...
Many librarians know how to pull up "special collections" that are fully listed to HOLLIS but accessible only through special key search words. For example, Houghton has a collection of about 250,000 pieces of sheet music which are arranged in specific categories...