Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Library staff in Gore Hall Saturday morning, Nov. 6, a committee was appointed to draw up resolutions on the death of Justin Winsor, late Librarian of Harvard University. It was voted that an engrossed copy of the resolutions be put on file in the Library records, and that another copy, signed by all the members of the staff, be sent to Mrs. Winsor. The resolutions as reported by the committee are as follows...
...Resolved, That on the death of Justin Winsor, LL. D., Librarian of Harvard University, and President of the American Library Association, the Massachusetts Library Club desires to express its sense of the high value of Dr. Winsor's services to librarianship and to learning in America. Standing for many years at the head of his profession, he united in a remarkable degree the accurate and extended learning of the older generation of librarians with the administrative force and understanding of the needs of the hour, which are demanded of the modern librarian...
...library and to college education. His readiness to meet the wants of the Faculty, and to administer the library in the interest of the elective system fostered a change in the methods of study in the University which would have been impossible without the co-operation of the Librarian...
...William C. Lane, Librarian of the Boston Athaeneum, representing the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the Harvard Memorial Society...
...ushers were: Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, W. H. Tillinghast, Assistant Librarian, Professor Ephraim Emerton, B. R. Robinson, A. C. Potter, Henry H. Edes, Winthrop H. Wade, George C. Deane, W. B. Briggs...