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William Coolidge Lane '81 has resigned his position as librarian of the University Library, it has been announced at University Hall. Mr. Lane's successor has not as yet been named...
...years Mr. Lane has been the University librarian. When he was first appointed to the position in 1898, the library was in the old Gore Hall which stood on the site of the present Widener Library. The total number of volumes over which Mr. Lane then had charge was some 200,000. Under his supervision the library has grown to its present size, containing at present about 2,500,000 volumes and ranking as the third largest collection in the United States, being surpassed only by the Congressional Library at Washington, and the New York Public Library...
...Lane entered Harvard in 1877. As an undergraduate he stood high in his studies and achieved the highest of scholastic honors, election to Phi Beta Kappa. Immediately upon his graduation in 1881 he went into the University Library. In 1887 he was appointed assistant librarian, a position which he held for six years. In 1893 he was made librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, where he remained until he was recalled to the University as head librarian...
When William C. Lanc, thirty years librarian of Harvard College, resigned from his post two days ago the University lost one of its most valuable servants. For forty-one years Mr. Lane has continually worked for the good of the library, with but six years intermission, when he served as librarian at the Boston Athenaeum, from the time he entered its service in 1881, until when he resigned last week...
Thus has the story run all through Mr. Lane's career as Harvard librarian. From the earliest days to the present Reading Period he has successfully met every emergency and carried on the daily work with a smooth sureness. The University can do no less than express its deepest appreciation of a work well done...