Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Louis E. Martin, Harvard College librarian, said yesterday the publishers are creating "a bogey-man that does not exist. A lot of the plans they are objecting to are just conjecture. There's nothing definite on the boards...
Edwin E. Williams '38, associate University librarian, said yesterday that in the past, normal procedures had been "to allow one single copy of any publication to be made for a scholar...
...every fact in it-a painstaking process that would be impossible without our reference library. Reporter-Researcher Sue Raffety, while checking this week's cover story on worldwide inflation, came across Writer James Grant's observation that the ancient Lydians invented metallic money. She called Head Research Librarian Harold Lateiner who, after finding three encyclopedias in conflict, confirmed the statement by consulting two major texts on the history of money. Elapsed time: 15 minutes...
Lateiner has been through this kind of thing before. He has been with the library since its birth in 1929 and has seen it grow from a small, quiet reading room to one of the largest journalistic research facilities in the world. Its 14 research librarians field more than 100,000 queries a year from Time Inc. people (53,000 last year from TIME alone). Presided over by Chief Librarian Benjamin Lightman, the library holds extensive microfilm records of TIME correspondents' dispatches, plus 500,000 highly specialized file folders containing countless millions of newspaper and magazine clippings (sample subjects...
Louis E. Martin, librarian of Harvard College, said he thought the library community would prefer professional librarian for the $38,500-a-year post...