Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reproduce material less than 1000 words long, one needs permission from the individual copyright holder. This process, which can take Harvard libraries up to two months, is necessary for about 100 of each semester's readings, said Alan A. Lanham '70, assistant librarian at Lamont...
...Other groups, claiming to be associated with the Hizballah, are holding three Americans hostage in Lebanon: U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, first secretary of the embassy's political section; Cable News Network Correspondent Jeremy Levin; and Presbyterian Minister Benjamin Weir. Last week a fourth American disappeared: Peter Kilburn, a librarian at Beirut's American University. A retaliatory raid in Lebanon might seal their fate...
...illustration is at least as ancient as the clay pictographs of Sumer (3000 B.C.) and as new as the freshest video graphics. To trace the highlights of that epic would take unflagging research and a tireless, discerning eye. These are, happily, the attributes of Michel Melot, a Paris-based librarian who seems to have studied every scroll, page and poster since the origin of writing and painting...
...course, the picture is pure hokum, and everybody knows it. The West was won by wagon trains, the East by sailing ships, and they all had plenty of passengers aboard, by necessity working together. "In history," Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin explained, "even the great explorer had been the man who drew others to a common purpose." Try to imagine an individual so rugged he could raise a roof beam...
Collegiate was so eager to find out how old it is that Headmaster Richard Barter and Trustee William L. Frost '47 in 1974 sent head librarian David Mallison to Holland to research the school's background...