Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catalog will mean that "a researcher doesn't have to walk over to Widener between seven and five. It can be midnight from across the river," Marilyn Weissman, editorial librarian, said...
Edward H. Minar, Robbins Library of Philosophy librarian, said Robbins could not contribute to the new catalog because "we don't have the resources to change that completely...
...point, and the library prepares a more creative reply. For a story on the skyrocketing price of gold last year, for example, it calculated that a suitcase of the precious metal would buy a tanker of crude oil. "Anything we are asked we will try to answer," says Chief Librarian Ben Lightman, who has been ferreting facts at Time Inc. for 28 years. "If we are unable to locate the information ourselves, we will direct the writer or researcher to a reliable source or authority...
...Underwood-Rich, the head research librarian, earned her master's degree in library studies at the University of Hawaii before coming to TIME in 1970 as a book cataloguer. She and her staff are busiest when newsmakers are. Last October the Iran-Iraq war, the labor crisis in Poland and the approaching U.S. presidential election helped swell the number of queries for the month to 7,508. "I think that was an alltime record," says Underwood-Rich. "But I haven't had a chance to check...
...government's first priority is to prevent "the abuses of the Cultural Revolution from happening again," Eugene Wu, librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library, said yesterday...