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...staff member of Lamont Library, I would like to comment on Ken Lee's disparaging remarks about Lamont. While "I hate Lamont" unfortunately seems to be a widespread and hastily uttered sentiment, it makes me sick at heart every time I hear it. Even worse are scenes I have witnessed at the circulation desk of Lamont. A patron becomes abusive when the desk worker refuses to tell him or her which of the four other people in the patron's tutorial currently has the only copy of the reserve reading. A professor, or more likely his stressed-out head...
During my undergraduate years here at Harvard, I worked in most of the departments of the library, serving, at various times, as a shelver, fines assistant, desk attendant, weekend supervisor and technical services assistant. Lamont has its share of problems, and there are, at times, delays in getting books on reserve. However, the staff has striven for years to streamline the process and has made remarkable progress with their efforts. In addition, the reserves staff has in recent years rededicated itself to strict adherence to the copyright protection act which, admittedly, causes more paperwork and headaches, but is, after...
Even the University's chief negotiator, Lamont University Professor Emeritus John T. Dunlop, concedes that the union's "emphasis on discourse" stems from its attempts to organize a workforce that is primarily female...
...reason it is not taken as seriously as it should be. For example, your article said that Lee served on the FAS Standing Committee on the Use of Libraries. It is ironic to find that his concern for the library system is demonstrated by an irrational desire to vandalize Lamont because he "hates it." It's not surprising that people in his dining hall call him "a fool." Perhaps they have seen him at work in Lamont...
...points, the Advocate would like to further state that it found the coverage of its proposed reading incomplete. The article missed the real substance of the Advocate meeting by failing to outline the many positive proposals which were passed. These proposals included decisions to schedule the meeting in the Lamont Forum Room on the 21st, to read many banned books and not just Rushdie's and to solicit the participation of all interested publications, organizations, professors and students. The explicit intent behind these proposals was to unite the Harvard community, including The Crimson and the Quarterly, in an affirmation...