Word: librarian
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...good that kids can just come in here and plow through this stuff.”While no one is quite sure how the comic collection got to Quincy, what seems clear is that it all began in the 1960s under Stephen M. Agli, who was the house librarian at the time. When Agli died in 2007 he took with him his knowledge of the collection’s origins.In the late 1990s, the collection doubled, reaching its current size, though the details of this event remain spotty as well.“During my time at Quincy, an alumnus...
...must also consider “the value to scholarship, which is almost inestimable.” Brainard added that although much of the Pusey Stacks remain open, the University archive, theatre collection, and map collection will be closed until a tentative re-opening later this week. Preservation Librarian Jan Merrill-Oldham said that Harvard’s library emergency response procedures have been effective. “I don’t think we lost anything,” Merill-Oldham said. “Really good disaster response saves collections...
...Faust’s background as a “systematic and very sophisticated historian” should prove useful in her tenure as president, says Sidney Verba ‘53, the former University librarian who spoke at Faust’s installation...
...viewer can enlarge and zoom in on these images to reveal intricate details that might otherwise go unnoticed by the untrained eye. Some works whose delicacy makes their availability severely limited, like the herbarium of Emily Dickinson, can now be viewed online. William P. Stoneman, a librarian at Houghton Library, has seen many benefits to the costly process of digitization. “In the short term, a lot more people are getting a lot easier access to the portions of the collections that have been digitized,” Stoneman says. “It’s much...
While a degree of secrecy is necessary for certain upper-level appointments, allowing more community members a meaningful say would greatly enhance discussion on the issues when selecting a new House master, dean, University librarian, or University president. Searches should be made either formally through a more public process, or participants in a community looking for a new leader should be more informally involved. This could entail students interviewing candidates for the dean of the College position or actually creating a formal committee to make a recommendation...