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Lawrence J. Kipp. recently-appointed College librarian, said yesterday he is considering a proposal from library staff to carpet Lamont Library...
Jane R. Morhardt, assistant librarian of Lamont, said yesterday notes in the library's suggestion box indicate students' largest complaint about Lamont is the squeaky floors...
More than 25 years ago, Douglas Bryant came to Cambridge to work as an administrative assistant in the University library system. Today, as the only man ever to hold simultaneously the positions of University Librarian and Director of the University Library, Bryant has left more of a mark on what many consider the finest academic library in the world than even Harry E. Widener '07. For instance, Harvard invented the position of Director of the University Library for Douglas Bryant...
...sits in his office overlooking the Yard, the librarian laments that he's never gotten to know many undergraduates. Yet even if Bryant can't recognize students by name or by face, he's done as much for them as anyone else in Harvard's recent history. Every student who uses the library system while at school--and that, of course, means every student--is touched by the accomplishments of this man who sits among the bookcases and memorabilia of 30 years of Harvard...
This school year has been marked by vast changes in the leadership of Harvard's libraries. Louis E. Martin, for six years the College Librarian, left to direct the libraries at Cornell University. Top-level administrators in Widener and other libraries are leaving, and others have died. Bryant, who turns 65 this year, must leave Harvard at the end of this year too. You can tell he's not pleased about leaving half his life behind...