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...priorities. It's just great to be in that list of six. As the campaign was winding down, there were so many priorities with in FAS and the fact that the library was designated a priority was extremely important," says Nancy M. Cline, Larsen librarian of Harvard College...
Kirkland House has the only library even partially in HOLLIS, due to the efforts of Judith A. Warnement, who works as a professional librarian for Harvard and, in her spare time, for Kirkland. "7,000 of Kirkland's books are in HOLLIS and more are added every week," Warnement wrote in an e-mail message, noting the House proceeded with the idea with the Master's approval, the permission of the Harvard University Libraries--and a commitment to pay all expenses...
...Dunster Library has little besides the standard works in the various disciplines," said Alyssa R. Bernstein, the House librarian. "Its collection is not up to date. The House has not been running this as a research library, nor have they been acquiring new books for quite a few years...
Many--but not all--House librarians agree that students should be able to use the books they manage for us. "It would be good for people to have a better sense of what is there," said Shannon O'Neil Trowbridge, Winthrop House librarian, echoing a common sentiment. When I have brought the issue up with students, there seems almost universal appeal-who wouldn't want a better sense of the books in the House library next door, if it could save a trip from Mather to Tozzer, Andover or Hilles...
Students will be even more convinced when they hear the story of Jacalyn R. Blume, the Lowell House librarian. "I do feel very strongly that the House collections need to go on HOLLIS to keep them vital and useful, and to keep interest in developing the collections," she wrote in an e-mail message. "I particularly realized this when in a single term, a few springs ago, there were over 700 students enrolled in classes about the Renaissance"--'The Renaissance in Florence' and 'Michelangelo'--"and I heard students complaining that all the books in Lamont and Fine Arts were...