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...Asaro has started planning a Student Initiated Program through the Freshman Dean’s Office that will tackle some of the easier group world records first, such as recruiting the most people to balance books on their heads simultaneously or staging the largest game of “Duck, Duck, Goose.” Although the SIP is still in its early stages, she has already announced the intention to break these two records, along with 36 others, to Guinness World Records officials...
...recommends that the system—the largest at any university in the world—adopt a twenty-first century approach that focuses on greater collaboration with other institutions of higher learning and shift toward more digital purchases, rather than traditional print resources...
Library expenditures grew by 25 percent between 2004 and 2008, and the libraries experienced heavy budget cuts last year after both the University endowment and the dollar fell, leading the Harvard College Library—the largest unit within the system—to seek a $12 million cost reduction...
...effort towards collaboration is a transition away from the emphasis on growth that has led the 370-year-old system to expand into one of the top five largest libraries in the world...
...weighed about 800 tons. "We used to build stuff too," Maloney mused, unprompted. "But now it's NIMBY [not in my backyard] every time you try to do something. Here," he joked, "it's more like IMBY. There's stuff happening here, everywhere and always." (See pictures of the largest military parade in China's history...