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University officials have described Womack as an aberration, assuring the rest of the University community that there is no reason to overreact and impose checks on its new employees. "This person obviously has mental problems, and you don't make policy based on that", said Harvard College Librarian Richard De Gennaro. "This is just one person who happened to be a very bad apple...
Harvard College Librarian Richard De Gennaro, in fact, explicitly said that the University should not require background checks for library employees...
...Harvard had looked into Womack's past, they might have discovered that he had a decade-long history of mutilating books, according to officials at the Lexington Public Library. Wikje Feteris, a librarian there, said this week that Womack had taken out hundreds of books there, and returned only the covers...
University Librarian Sidney Verba '53 yesterday estimated the damage caused by the slasher at hundreds of thousands of dollars, but other library officials said a more accurate figure is "several million...
...spent an enormous amount of time, money, and effort trying to get this case solved and it finally has paid off," said Harvard College Librarian Richard De Gennaro. "I am absolutely delighted that we solved the case...