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...what price out books? Many of the books printed on "acid paper" in the 19th and early 20th centuries that are housed in Widener library are decaying due to the lack of climate control in the library. According to Harvard College Librarian Nancy Cline, "We're baking those books.... We're not providing [the books] the proper level of stewardship...
Sitting a few weeks ago at a table in the librarian's office in the front corner of Widener Library, Harvard College Librarian Nancy Cline pulls out a piece of delicate, yellowing paper from a folder containing presentation materials she uses when pitching the library's preservation needs. The sheet was taken from one of the library's thousands of works from the 19th century...
...have these books in good environmental conditions, nothing else you do to preserve them matters," says Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian Jan Merrill-Oldam, who directs the University's preservation program...
...There's a general law around fund raising that the library is everyone's second favorite part of the University," says University Librarian Sidney Verba, who chairs the Library Committee...
...Harvard should really open the next century with this library better equipped to deal with its future," Cline says.CrimsonKathleen M. O'TooleHead Librarian NANCY CLINE demonstrates the need to protect Harvard's books with a Widener volume, that has already been preserved electronically...