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...overcrowding during previous reading periods, access to Langdell Library will be limited to HLS students, faculty and staff from May 7 through May 26, according to Paul M. George, HLS associate librarian for research services...
...Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Clinesaid that the College Library System woulddistribute information to students about alternateoptions within the Faculty of Arts and Sciencessystem...
...documents--19th-century books and other items relating to the history of science--are currently under restricted access because of their age and delicate condition. Harvard College Librarian Nancy M. Cline said microfilming the materials would make them more accessible to researchers...
...wealthy collectors. Now, thanks to Octavo Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif., anyone with a computer and CD-ROM drive can enjoy priceless works by Galileo, Shakespeare, Ben Franklin and other greats exactly as they appear in the originals--complete with watermarks, worn pages and wormholes. Says Richard Kuhta, librarian of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington: "You can do everything but smell the book." What's more, readers can instantly search these digital copies, unlike the originals, to find a word or phrase. Co-founded by Adobe Systems CEO John Warnock, an avid rare-book collector, Octavo...
...interested in the scientific study of nature. When, at age 10, his observations led to questions that could be answered only by access to the university library, Piaget wrote and published a short note on the sighting of an albino sparrow in the hope that this would influence the librarian to stop treating him like a child. It worked. Piaget was launched on a path that would lead to his doctorate in zoology and a lifelong conviction that the way to understand anything is to understand how it evolves...