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...cheerleader, she was popular with boys, and best of all, she was the star of all of the high school musicals. She had seen The Music Man on Broadway and had fallen in love with Star Barbara Cook. Now at 15, she won the Cook role of Marian the librarian...
...study that made the necessary comparisons of apples and oranges. The mayor's secretary ($18,000), for instance, was found to be performing work qualitatively equal to that of a senior air-conditioning mechanic and earning 40% less than what the repairman makes ($3 1,000). Librarian Linda Dyde makes $7,700 less than her counterpart, a plant-shift supervisor...
...contrast to the previously proposed overhaul of the whole library, Handlin and Yen-Tsai Feng, librarian of Harvard College, continue to plan but with a new way of thinking about renovations: "If money turned up, what would we do first," When an anonymous donation came through, there was no question that a new copper roof should replace the leaky, old one which threatened to damage Widener's priceless collections...
...complex nature of Harvard's collections also makes them precious--and susceptible to ruin due to age and deterioration. Heather E. Cole, librarian of Hilles and Lamont libraries, says "it's remarkable the way Hilles and Lamont have been built to last." While the undergraduate libraries and Widener do not face the same immediate dangers to their structures as in some decrepit Houses and buildings, the librarians say there are potential problems with the preservation of books...
...headlines again in January, when it organized a "study-in" at Lamont Library to protest the lack of a 24-hour study area in the Yard. About 70 students joined in the quiet sit-in-on Lamont's ground floor after the 1 a.m. closing time. Heather C. Cole, librarian of Hilles and Lamont Libraries, asked the protesters to leave. When they refused, she called Epps, who arrived to say that he would meet with a small group of them the next day. The demonstration ended at 2 a.m. A few days later, the administration agreed to keep the Science...