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Beth Brainard, HCL’s director of communications, cautions that plans for Lamont as well as Gov Docs itself are tentative, but says that ideas about possible uses of the department’s space include the creation of a cafe and a general social area. While administrators emphasized the uncertainty of the Gov Docs relocation, a memo sent to library employees on October 3 cites the move as one of five steps HCL will take to lower expenditures...
According to Brainard, plans to relocate Gov Docs and install new facilities in its place are part of an effort to shape Lamont into a “service station for undergraduates...
...Lamont is a building that is otherwise secure to undergrads with the exception of that space. Undergraduates certainly use Gov Docs, and nobody’s suggesting otherwise, but the primary users of Gov Docs are...outside researchers who would probably be better served having [the department] over in Littauer,” he says...
...you’re doing humanities or social sciences research, chances are you’re doing research in Widener or Lamont or Houghton, all of which are a few feet from each other,” says Noah M. McCormack ’04, a history concentrator who voiced his concern about the relocation. “They’re all essentially one complex. It’s an integrated collection and [the relocation] is very shortsighted. I didn’t know where Littauer was until last semester...
Collins and Carens are also worried about the staffing of the potential Littauer Gov Docs department. According to Carens, recent layoffs at Hilles Library have Lamont employees “‘in fear of losing [their] jobs.” A campaign to educate Harvard students about layoffs has been in effect since this summer through the posting of anti-layoff leaflets and appeals to the FAS administration, Carens says...