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...pretended not to be related to the zealous Midwestern woman beside me, my mom would either loudly praise the college for allowing students to roam the libraries??€™ holdings or berate it for its refusal to further academic freedom. She claimed that open stacks were the key to a fulfilling college experience...
...Robert Darnton ‘60. The structure of the current library system, which encompasses 75 separate institutions, a vast array of electronic resources, and multiple preservation labs and archival collections, has made it difficult to effectively coordinate services and adapt to technological innovations. While some branches of the libraries??€”such as the law, business and medical school libraries??€”are autonomous entities, other services, such as the Office of Information Services are centralized. Though the system’s organizational structure has been a concern before, the economic crisis has provided the impetus for library officials...
Harvard had been one of five academic libraries??€”along with Stanford, Oxford, Michigan, and the New York Public Library—to partner with Google when the book scanning initiative was announced in October 2004. University officials said that Harvard would continue its policy of only allowing Google to scan books whose copyrights have expired...
...seemed to hit all the points that have so excited me about the transformations underway at the Harvard libraries and in many of America’s great research libraries??€”indeed those that enabled me to write my latest book...
...pretended not to be related to the zealous Midwestern woman beside me, my mom would either loudly praise the college for allowing students to roam the libraries??€™ holdings or berate it for its refusal to further academic freedom. She claimed that open stacks were the key to a fulfilling college experience...