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Students have targeted Lamont Library, Harvard’s primary undergraduate library, for the all-night study space...
University authorities have not ruled out keeping Lamont open later, but so far they have not changed policy. Under current regulations, the library closes at 12:45 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday night, at 11:45 p.m. on Thursday night and at 9:45 p.m. on Friday and Saturday night. It opens at 8 a.m. daily. During reading and exam period, Lamont stays open until 12:45 a.m. each night...
...once someone signs into Lamont Library, although they technically are given access only to the government documents, the building layout means that it’s difficult for Harvard to restrict their access to the rest of the facility. “It’s pretty much on the honor system,” Brainard said...
Beth Brainard, spokeswoman for the Harvard College Library, which runs Lamont Library—site of the other government depository on campus—says that members of the public can show a photo ID and sign in at the door; the visitors generally consist of academics from other institutions. While Brainard stresses that for privacy reasons the library does not keep a count of who uses the library, she observes that in general, a small percentage of the library’s users, approximately 10 percent, come from outside Harvard...
Present!’s “extra-textual” projects have included a sleepover in Lamont last year that left all participants ad-boarded, a “silent dance party” and a letter-writing forum outside the Science Center, where Pasternack and company encouraged passersby to write letters to their friends—and then mailed the products to appropriate recipients...