Word: lamonts
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Almost all of the volumes in Lamont and Hilles are kept in the buildings themselves because the undergraduate libraries can simply remove books from their shelves if demand for them wanes, Cole says. "We can take volumes out of the collection because they can be found elsewhere at Harvard," she says...
...ideal answer, at least in the minds of some faculty members, is to appropriate a University owned lot across from Lamont, the former site of the Gulf station. Last spring, Harvard Real Estate acquired the lot and announced plans to build a hotel on it. But last December the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passed a resolution calling on the University to use the space for some academic purpose--including a library...
...Verba says he would rather find a location which could be connected to Widener through an underground tunnel, much like the one connecting the research library with Pusey and Lamont libraries...
...preference would be that, if funds could be found for [building a new library], the Gulf site is not the best site. I would much prefer something in the vicinity of Pusey, 17 Quincy St., Lamont--in there if one could squeeze something in. It would be much much better to have the library a continuation of Widener, in the sense that Pusey is a continuation of Widener...
Cole says Hilles and Lamont were denied funding for barcoding next year, leaving the job unfinished at least until the academic year beginning in the fall...