Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Maurice Bradford, a schoolteacher, was 28, and four years out of college, he killed a woman. He was sentenced to life in prison-but never lost his interest in education. He became librarian of the state penitentiary at Concord, N.H.; his 200-odd fellow inmates came to him for advice on correspondence-school courses to take and books to read. The library he built up (and was allowed to sleep in, instead of a cell) became the envy of other prisons...
Though as early as 1862 librarian John Langdon Sibley began his long (and unsuccessful in his lifetime) campaign for a new building, it was not until 1913 that the cornerstone of Widener was laid. Now, only a short time after President Conant's formal announcement that a new place was needed, plans are underway for the Lamont Undergraduate Library...
...position of Keyes D. Metcalf, present director of Harvard's collection of almost 5,000,000 books and pamphlets, can be compared in name only to the job held by Solomon Stoddard, the first librarian, who in 1667 had charge of "a library and books then valued at 400lbs." In fact it was not until Gore Hall, fireproof extensions and all, was razed to make way for Widener that the job called for a tactician and administrator rather than a pioneer...
Daniel Gookin, the third librarian, was able to move the collection almost single handed to its new location in Harvard Hall, in 1676, for which "pains" the Corporation paid him 50 shillings. Extant catalogues of the 1750's show the library, which was recognized as the most important in the country, with the sum total of 5,000 volumes...
...first sprinkling of a deluge that will continue for the next hundred years," is the way that Clarence E. Walton, Assistant Librarian, describes the current exhibit on German propaganda displayed for the first time this week in the Widener exhibit cases." There are some items, however, of immediate significance...