Word: librarian
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...library for the three Houses," according to Patricia Gnazzo Pepper, masters' assistant at Currier House and manager of its reading room. House libraries have all kinds of books, from rare to super-commonplace, though they mostly address subjects in the humanities. (Nicola Trowbridge Cooney, the Eliot House librarian, said, "We have an oddly limited collection--the joke is we have everything from British history to British literature...
Kirkland House has the only library even partially in HOLLIS, due to the efforts of Judith A. Warnement, who works as a professional librarian for Harvard and, in her spare time, for Kirkland. "7,000 of Kirkland's books are in HOLLIS and more are added every week," Warnement wrote in an e-mail message, noting the House proceeded with the idea with the Master's approval, the permission of the Harvard University Libraries--and a commitment to pay all expenses...
...Dunster Library has little besides the standard works in the various disciplines," said Alyssa R. Bernstein, the House librarian. "Its collection is not up to date. The House has not been running this as a research library, nor have they been acquiring new books for quite a few years...
Many--but not all--House librarians agree that students should be able to use the books they manage for us. "It would be good for people to have a better sense of what is there," said Shannon O'Neil Trowbridge, Winthrop House librarian, echoing a common sentiment. When I have brought the issue up with students, there seems almost universal appeal-who wouldn't want a better sense of the books in the House library next door, if it could save a trip from Mather to Tozzer, Andover or Hilles...
...When one finds different policies, it's very confusing," said Harvard College Library Associate Librarian for Collections Jeffrey Horrell. "This was a way to simplify [the procedure] so that it is clear across the board...