Word: librarian
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Harvard’s new chief librarian will assume control of the world’s largest academic library, containing over 15.5 million physical volumes...
...sentimental local favorite, but he announced Friday that he was already giving up his long-shot campaign. "If all the attention is on Obama and Clinton now and they do damage themselves, why, it's really hard to say. People come from behind," says Pat Harms, 73, a retired librarian in northwest Iowa who voted for Howard Dean during the last Iowa caucuses...
...larger number of books.” As of its announcement last week, Princeton is the 12th institution to join the Google Books Library Project, and the only other Ivy League school to have done so besides Harvard. Karin A. Trainer, Princeton’s university librarian, said that she expected to make about a million books in Princeton’s collection available through Google over the next few years. “We feel that digitizing our collections would be the best way to make them accessible,” said Trainer. As at Harvard, the material...
...short drive away is Mogadishu's only public library, a privately funded institution set up eight months ago. Chief librarian Hirsie Mohamed Hirey, 38, depends on a charity in Leicester, England, to send him second-hand books. The first shipment of 31,200 contained some oddities - Disorder in Crystals, The Handbook of Hardwoods (3rd Edition, Part I) and Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport by Pritanthi Fernando and Gina Porter. But there were also some surprisingly appropriate titles: The Tactical Uses of Passion by F.G. Bailey (1983), a box of The Essential Guide to Drugs and First...
Hyman is assisting with the searches for a new dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) and University Librarian, while Bok has been involved with searches for new deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Design...