Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Larkin, Librarian of the University of Hull since 1956, feels a "need to be on the periphery of things." Despite a growing reputation as a poet, built up at roughly ten-year intervals by four spare collections of verse, he hates to give readings, lectures or TV appearances because "I don't want to go around pretending to be me." Politically he is an unabashed Thatcherite; culturally he is a virtual reactionary who maintains that modernism has "blighted all the arts." Most of his poems are sprucely rhymed and metered; yet his themes are decline, loss, things not working...
...year and a half ago, and moved one million volumes there from its central Sterling Library. With eight million volumes in the system altogether, and four million in Sterling until the big move, the central building already held more that Yale expected it could, according to the university librarian, Rutherford D. Rogers...
Princeton librarian Glen Odell says that "space is a constant crisis here as everywhere." The school's main building, Firestone Library, is about 85 percent full, which Odell says means that librarians are constantly having to readjust shelf space for new books. But Princeton is one of the smaller of the major research libraries, with just over 3.6 million volumes...
Sidney Verba '53, the genial political scientist, was mentioned as a likely candidate for dean of the Faculty. He didn't get the job, but instead was tapped to replace Oscar Handlin as Pfozheimer University Professor and University Librarian. Handlin moved over to the Loeb University chair, replacing retiring Law School eminence grise, Archibald Cox '34. Two other scholars also nabbed for university chairs, the highest honor Harvard can bestow on its professors: outgoing Dean of the Faculty Henry Resovsky and Business School teaching whiz Roland Christensen...
When Verba steps down from his post to become University Librarian and Pforzheimer University Professor this fall, he will leave behind a legacy not only of his systematic analysis and reform of undergraduate education but a reputation for honesty and openness in dealing with undergraduates...