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...said. Flecker said that Pforzheimer University Professor Robert C. Darnton ’60, who became the library’s director in July, has been “very supportive of the project and very involved.” Jan Merrill-Oldham, the Malloy-Rabinowitz preservation librarian, said she is excited by the implications of a universal library accessible to all with a computer and an Internet connection. Online availability of library collections has the potential to increase exposure for thousands of little-known books that might have been lost to time, Merill-Oldham said. She added that...
...unauthorized library book through it? Does he realize that you can’t fit many stolen goods under a calculator face? A rebellious spirit infused the air as students distributed pieces of paper encouraging inconvenienced peers to complain to Heather E. Cole, Lamont’s Head Librarian. Even the powerful weighed in on the scene, as UC Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 expressed his hope that “we can all resolve the lines.” Fasci, on the other hand, who has only been on the job for a few weeks...
When students in 1924 accused Widener Library administrators of censorship, one librarian at the time called the act a “duty.” “There are filthy books, salacious books, books corrupting in influence, which it is no part of the library’s duty to distribute to readers,” said the librarian, William C. Lane, according to an editorial in The Crimson that year. While Harvard’s librarians and the Square’s booksellers no longer yank books from their shelves, they are highlighting controversial books as part...
...speech—delivered in a high-pitched, quavering voice that is distinctly his—is similarly unique, coming in excitable spasms and accompanied by a frenzied hand-wringing in its more passionate moments: when, for instance, he discovers that the new University librarian is a leader in intellectual history—his own area of concentration when he has time to pick up a textbook...
...Widener research librarian Barbara Burg says that one aspect of her work with students “is to ensure that [they] are able to differentiate among the resources that the library has online and that are not available anywhere...