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...dogs has struck fear into the hearts of many on-campus dog-lovers, who worry that the dogs will be used in harsh tests. “They don’t hook the dogs up to those crazy electro things, do they?” wonders Cabot Librarian and campus-renowned animal-lover Ronald N. Lacey. “All of the studies are benign,” assures Hauser. “The dogs will get free rewards for finding things.” The study will explore dogs’ sensitivity to human interaction and cues...
...inaugural effort to streamline the operations of Harvard’s scattered science libraries, four will merge underneath the administrative purview of Harvard College Library in July. The Physics, Statistics, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Mathematics departmental libraries will report to Lynne M. Schmelz, the librarian of Cabot and Tozzer Libraries, which fall within HCL. The remaining science libraries will see plans for an eventual administrative transfer to HCL, which manages the circulation of over 11 million items. The news—which was e-mailed to members of the library system by Jeremy Bloxham, dean of science...
...said in interviews with The Crimson that they have been buckling under the mounting pressure of possible layoffs.“You really don’t know what will happen because there isn’t likely to be any warning,” said Kaufman, a librarian in the psychology department. “If you don’t accept the package, you could be laid off—and the uncertainty tends to prod one towards taking what is possible.”FAS Dean Michael D. Smith has firmly dismissed the notion that...
However, the library refuses to stay open when there is no librarian on guard because the portraits are so valuable. Its hours on Friday, perhaps, are most ridiculous—it is open only 5-8 PM. Most House libraries have terrible hours on Fridays and Saturdays, though...
...scholars who must travel to Harvard to access the Library’s Special Collections. Close to 40 percent of the graduate students who contact the Library hoping to consult the materials in Special Collections are not affiliated with Harvard, according to David R. Warrington, the Special Collections librarian. The department houses nearly 2,000 feet of linear manuscript, more than 200,000 rare books, and over 70,000 visual images. “The fellowship will support greater access, especially by young scholars with research budgets, to our unique materials,” said John G. Palfrey...