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...case that my best friend, her skin now a succulent honey color, works as a lifeguard at the YMCA, while I work a 9-to-5 summer job at the local public library. I am a doubly cursed pale nerd for being both a Harvard student and a librarian. But I thoroughly enjoy researching local history in the reference department and helping with the summer reading program in the children’s department. My work provides me with a warm, inner glow, and the modest fluorescent light bulbs and the wavering computer screens bathe me in a skin-cancer...
...fellow librarian, who often boasts aloha shirts and a deep tan, recently shared with me his adventures as a surfer dude. Inspired by such revels, I ventured to Clearwater Beach with my boyfriend in tow. My boyfriend understands my pale plight, as he hails from Ohio, a state of indie rockers and rednecks. After emerging from the changing rooms at the beach, we smothered ourselves with sunscreen, from the tips of our ears to the tips of our toes. We sauntered down to the water, our fair figures hardly discernable from the surrounding sands. Splashing about in the ocean...
...ceremony, the once-professor Rudenstine talked about commitment to the University, the kind of commitment that keeps a librarian behind the same reference desk for a quarter century, the kind of commitment that is pretty hard to come by these days. I’m no fan of the Progressive Student Labor Movement, but I couldn’t suppress the percolating wellspring of ironic indignation within my chest when the president spoke of the rarity of such service. Security guards and custodians, young Turks who age into sparkling-eyed old men after a lifetime helping fancy Harvard kids...
...Board hired an investigator, Law School Senior Reference Librarian Janet C. Katz, to gather evidence for the hearing—which included transcripts of conversations with individuals involved...
...project is part of the University's ongoing efforts to preserve its library resources. Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian Jan Merrill-Oldham said Harvard applies for preservation grants approximately every two years, and a council composed of representatives from various Harvard libraries, in coordination with members of the Harvard faculty, writes the proposals...