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Readers of John D. Staines' "Lamenting Over Lamont" (Saturday, October 13) need a little more information about the Library's effort to monitor faculty use of the book collection. The billing program includes officer loans; our aim is to identify seriously overdue books for replacement and to bill both these costs and also non-refundable service charges to faculty borrowers, using the Unviersity's Accounts Receivable Office. Non-payment of these charges results in the loss of borrowing privileges...
Only one student and one professor--organizer Colin V. Gallagher '91 and Higgins Professor of Biochemistry Guido Guidotti--emerged as members from the group's premier meeting at Lamont Library yesterday, which was attended by only one other student...
...always is, decided that its main undergraduate library was not important enough to warrant the funds that could be better spent installing large rocks in front of the Science Center. Now the library will have to wait at least another two years before the computers arrive. Perhaps Lamont could better serve undergrads if FAS no longer considered it an undergraduate library...
...Besides Lamont's circulation idiosyncrasies, it is always stuffy, noisy and over-crowded with students standing in line to get the one reserve book you need most. Nevertheless, it is ours. And after living in the dorms for a while, it eventually feels a little like home. After all, Lamont is just about the closest undergrads at Harvard get to having a campus-wide student center...
...share our library with some ungrateful guests. And if Harvard's noble officers continue to feel the need to play on our turf, they should at least play by the home rules. And pay by them too. With all of the overdue library fines that usually go unpaid, Lamont could probably afford some light pens...