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Although most of the books are not particularly valuable, the library’s collection was assembled by Dunster’s long-time librarian Charles F. Kletzsch over his more than 50 years with the House...
...Dunster House Library is open from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Thursday with alternate hours on the weekends and is staffed by a student desk attendant or its librarian, Martha Diaz. Its books are non-circulating and may only be taken out of the library with special permission. Unlike Lamont and Widener, there is no security system to prevent books from being stolen...
...statement. Even under the open-access model, authors generally must pay fees to publishers. This has led some professors to worry that the economic downturn will keep lesser-known authors from publishing due to higher fees that may be implemented to offset costs, according to John Saylor, an associate librarian at Cornell. “We’ve just about hit the ceiling on what universities are able to support in terms of subscription costs, especially with the current recession,” Dartmouth Associate Librarian Elizabeth E. Kirk said. “Each time a university library cancels...
...Harvard, escucha, estamos en la lucha” (Harvard, listen, we are in a fight), roughly 50 protesters picketed outside the Holyoke Center, denouncing what they called Harvard’s greed and calling for shared sacrifice by administrators. Geoff P. Carens, a Harvard librarian and union member who frequently organizes such vocal protests, ridiculed the University for saying that it was in the midst of a fiscal crisis and had to lay off workers when the endowment still stands at $26 billion...
...this year,” he said. Other employers said students who had previously worked for that employer would be preferentially asked to return first before new hiring takes place. “My department is not hiring any new students,” said Rachel Howarth, the associate librarian at Houghton Library, which usually hires new students each semester. “We just have a fair amount returning this year.” Some employers added that they are not taking work study eligibility into consideration when adjusting work schedules. Sanders, for example, hires both work-study...