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...library since the card catalog went digital. Google’s pilot program—also underway at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Stanford University and the New York Public Library—will begin the daunting task of digitally scanning Harvard University Library’s (HUL) massive library holdings, beginning with some 40,000 volumes. This random selection of content from the Harvard Depository will soon be searchable online at Google Print—a site that harnesses the power of Google’s internet search capabilities for an online library catalog...
...HUL is also working with organizations in Iraq that are preserving government documents from Saddam Hussein’s regime, Verba said yesterday...
...project comes after HUL and the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science partnered last March to offer training for Iraqi librarians...
...announcement at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting, Sidney Verba ’53, Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, said HUL will focus on building Iraqi library collections relating to democracy and the democratic process...
...program, Harvard librarians have begun to compile lists of books and reference materials that will augment the collections in the Iraqi libraries. After Iraqi librarians indicate which books from the list they want, HUL will help them obtain the necessary funding to purchase them, according to Jeffrey Horrell, associate librarian of Harvard College for collections...