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This limited understanding of what purpose Widener serves has not always been the norm. Matthew Battles, Houghton librarian and author of the recent book Widener: Biography of a Library, pointed out in an e-mail that until about a decade ago, “library access was granted on the honor system. Students of local colleges in particular were welcome to use the reading room and had reference privileges. Under the umbrella of this policy, people entered Widener who only wanted to see the place.” Nonetheless, security concerns, noise and crowding all contributed to the restriction...
When Ester Blandford was born, 18 months ago, the Swedish state did all it could to ease her way into the world - and encourage her parents to have even more kids. Her mother, Therese, 29, a children's librarian in the small southern town of Nyhamnsläge, took 15 months off work, most of it at 80% pay, to care for the baby, her first child. She now works part-time. Ester's dad, Christian, also 29, a physical therapist, stays home one day a week to help out. He too gets 80% pay from the state...
...staff member, Chip Robinson, a librarian at Widener and non-resident tutor in Leverett House, said he learned about the petition from the College Democrats list-serv...
...forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a schoolteacher and a librarian, and there couldn't be a more important...
Jeffrey Horrell, associate librarian of Harvard College for collections, said he was happy to see the Hilles collection go to Sun Yat-Sen, both because of the university’s stature and because it would value the books...