Word: lamonte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, that's only the first part of the famous Lamont book-charge questionnaire, which is rumored to ask students for their I.D. numbers, blood types and the number of times they have had sex in the Widener stacks...
Observant Lamont patrons often notice that many books have a strip on the cover for bar codes and expect to use them instead of filling out a card. Unfortunately, very few staff members at Lamont have light pens in their index fingers. FAS started to bar-code some Lamont books several years ago, but at the last moment decided to postpone installing the computers and putting the system on-line...
...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...