Word: lamont
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Following an Undergraduate Council (UC) proposal, Harvard College Libraries (HCL) announced that this fall, it will start a two-year pilot program to keep Lamont Library’s doors open 24 hours a day during the workweek...
...plan is largely the result of a UC effort to demonstrate the “overwhelming” demand for a 24-hour student workspace. In a phone-survey study this January, the UC found that the current Lamont schedule did not serve students’ study habits, as over 66 percent of undergraduates continue to work after Lamont closes...
...library schedule will leave Lamont open from 8 a.m. on Sunday to 9:45 p.m. on Friday, said Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline. Lamont will not change its Saturday hours?...
...college had previously tried to meet students’ needs by keeping house dining halls open throughout the night as a study space after Lamont closed...
...Although Lamont would be the first 24-hour HCL library, some upperclass Houses, such as Adams, already provide 24 hour study spaces. Haddock said this offered a solution to the Houses’ respective residents, but that “most students, especially freshman, were unaware of these options or felt unsafe to walk late at night to the libraries...