Word: librarian
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Harvard College Librarian Emeritus Keyes D. Metealf came to Harvard from the New York Public Library in 1937 when the University had 3.8 million books...
When he left in 1955, the collection had grown to 5.9 million volumes, an increase "which speaks for his value to Harvard," Yen Tsai-Fend, librarian of Harvard College, said yesterday...
Feng added that until recently, the former librarian could be found stalking Widener with tape measure in hand, suggesting architectural and bureaucratic improvements...
Handlin said he first met Metcalf, at the New York Public Library in the 1930s when Metcalf was a librarian there. "He used to kick me out." Handlin said, explaining that University students weren't allowed in the library...
...paper's editors, "Now you have got to give me a job." But it was not until 15 years later, after she had divorced Field and headed north to Alaska in a station wagon, that she at last broke into the ranks of working journalists, as librarian of the Anchorage Daily News at a wage of $2 an hour. She was not impelled by financial needs; she just had her mind set upon having a career. The next year, she married Lawrence Fanning, a former Field deputy, and together they bought the Anchorage paper...