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...Lahiri is the most critically praised member of America's rising literary generation. Born in London to Bengali parents, she grew up in Rhode Island, where her father was (and is) a librarian. She went to Barnard, then moved to Boston to work in a bookstore and collect master's degrees and generally figure herself out. "I sometimes wonder, If I'd not gone up to Boston for those years, would I have written fiction?" she says. "In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, Who am I to dare...
...country. The Vogels’ collection includes works of more than 170 contemporary artists. Among the artists whose works will be sent to HUAM are Michael Goldberg, Edda Renouf, Richard Tuttle, and Stephen Antonakos. Herbert Vogel, 85, a retired postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, 73, a retired reference librarian, told The Austin Chronicle, “we bought art we could afford and that would fit into the apartment.” The couple began collecting art in the 1960s and started lending pieces to HUAM in the early 1970s. The couple’s first contribution was a collection...
...good that kids can just come in here and plow through this stuff.”While no one is quite sure how the comic collection got to Quincy, what seems clear is that it all began in the 1960s under Stephen M. Agli, who was the house librarian at the time. When Agli died in 2007 he took with him his knowledge of the collection’s origins.In the late 1990s, the collection doubled, reaching its current size, though the details of this event remain spotty as well.“During my time at Quincy, an alumnus...
...must also consider “the value to scholarship, which is almost inestimable.” Brainard added that although much of the Pusey Stacks remain open, the University archive, theatre collection, and map collection will be closed until a tentative re-opening later this week. Preservation Librarian Jan Merrill-Oldham said that Harvard’s library emergency response procedures have been effective. “I don’t think we lost anything,” Merill-Oldham said. “Really good disaster response saves collections...
...Faust’s background as a “systematic and very sophisticated historian” should prove useful in her tenure as president, says Sidney Verba ‘53, the former University librarian who spoke at Faust’s installation...