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Lamont Library’s 24-hour service received a positive evaluation this past spring, moving the two-year pilot program one step closer to becoming permanent at the end of the next academic year, according to a librarian of the Harvard College Libraries...
...Students and staff both seem happy with the program,” said Marilyn Wood, an HCL associate librarian for collection management. “[It] has been successful in its first year so we will continue with...
...with scholarship aid. We approved the extension of the Lamont Library hours to midnight. But we were sorry to see that the Student Council, which usually spends much of its time agreeing with the administration, thought that extension of Lamont hours was unnecessary—just one week before Librarian Buck announced the change. It seems the Council jumped on the wrong wave of history this time and got caught in the backwash. Under the leadership of their new Master and their Senior Tutor, the men at Kirkland House were experimenting. Early in the fall they began a tutorial program...
According to its website, Lamont Library is the brainchild of Keyes D. Metcalf, Harvard’s top librarian until 1955. But Lamont also owes credit to the educational philosophy of Metcalf’s time, embodied by the famous “Red Book” of 1943. Written by a group of faculty led by Provost Paul H. Buck and President James B. Conant ’13, the “Red Book” declared the high purpose of a 20th Century undergraduate education: Harvard must not just teach skills but also civic character, moral temerity...
...have been an inheritor of this vision, though I did not initially want to be. When I was forced by my concentration to endure a session with a reference librarian, I grumbled, but I could not protest...