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...Task Force was charged in the wake of budget concerns across the University, said Provost Steven E. Hyman. But he said yesterday that the goal of the task force is “not to wring money out of the libraries” but to put in place long-awaited reforms...
...Hyman said he hoped the subsequent implementation working group will achieve “substantial progress” within a year on some of the report’s core reforms, which include putting in place new models for library funding and governance...
While library funding should be preserved, the library system should look for efficiencies that can improve quality and save money wherever possible. As the task force led by University Provost Steven E. Hyman has noted, the current decentralized system forces Harvard libraries to bid against each other to acquire the same books. An effort to better coordinate services would hopefully result in savings without the loss of one of Harvard’s most important resources...
...task force chaired by University Provost Steven E. Hyman has been charged with recommending changes to Harvard’s library system this semester. The group will release a finished draft of a report detailing preliminary recommendations in about two weeks, Hyman said yesterday...
...task force’s main goals, Hyman said, is to ensure that students and faculty have access to much of the world’s scholarly works “in perpetuity” by taking advantage of digital resources, but such access does not necessarily mean “ownership and preservation of everything...