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Harvard possesses one of the greatest university library systems in the academic world, and much of the credit for its continuing success can be attributed to Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, the outgoing director of Harvard University Libraries (HUL). Under Verba, HUL has become a much more efficient, user-friendly organization, with the launch of programs like HOLLIS, HUL’s invaluable online search tool. Verba has kept Harvard at the cutting edge of library technology, most notably in recent years through collaboration with Google to digitize Harvard’s collections...
...collections.At Harvard, the position Darnton will take over July 1 carries with it significant prestige but not an automatic mandate. The director of the University Library is only the first among equals in a relatively decentralized library system, and Darnton will have to work hard to seek consensus.Although the HUL director is nominally the chief steward of Harvard’s collections, he does not directly exercise budgetary authority over individual libraries but plays a coordinating role between them. While the University Library is a department of the central administration, each of the University’s 10 faculties funds...
...HOLLIS record rather than hot-footing it over to the Andover Theological Library. “The books will be available instantaneously, seven days a week, 24 hours a day,” said Dale P. Flecker, associate librarian for systems and planning in the University Library (HUL). The Google Books Library Project scans books from many major libraries and makes them freely available online. Since 2004, Google has been scanning books from Harvard’s libraries that are no longer under copyright protection. According to Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, who is director...
...interview with The Crimson yesterday, Verba said that having flexible funds is especially important for HUL, as it has become involved in many technological projects in recent years. These include a drive to digitize Harvard’s library holdings...
...HUL spokesman said that Fergusson was not available for an interview...