Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although planning for the additional library space is still tentative, library officials expect that the cost of construction will be about $5 million. They have already received permission from the Corporation to investigate the possibility of raising funds. Douglas W. Bryant, University Librarian, said yesterday that he hopes some portion of the money will come from the federal government...
...summer of 1939, a few short weeks before Hitler's invasion of Poland, Harvard historian William L. Langer was preparing to leave for a year's study in Mexico and Central America when he was contacted by the University Librarian, Keyes DeWitt Metcalf. Metcalf was anxious to purchase for Harvard the personal papers of a Russian exile then living in Mexico, and he asked Langer to represent Harvard in the negotiations...
...decision has become increasingly clear. No scholar writing on Trotsky--or, for that matter, on the Russian Revolution -- can afford to overlook the Trotsky archives in Houghton library. In recent years even a few scholars from the Soviet Union have looked at the papers. Bond, Houghton's president librarian, has shown a number of Russians through the library and several have asked to see the Trotsky archives. One historian, after briefly examining Trotsky's diary, commented "Yes, that's his handwriting." Several years ago a former Russian Minister of Culture asked permission to look at the Trotsky papers...
...primary cause for this crowding, Lucy M. Manzi, acting head librarian of Hilles, said yesterday, was the 330 people who entered between 7 and 8 p.m. Keeping men out until 8 p.m. should solve the problem and still enable all Harvard students to use Hilles facilities without much inconvenience, Miss Manzi and Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, decided yesterday...
...Library recognizes that periodicals are sometimes needed for longer periods and, as your editorial makes clear, students may reserve them for five days. Further-more, the easy access to photographic services in Widener facilitates copying articles in periodicals. Theodore G. Alevizos Associate University Librarian for Reference and Circulation