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...each map was stolen from, she said. “Some of the institutions will come up with a longer list of missing items after this meeting,” Brainard said. By comparing the edges of maps and damage to the paper the maps were printed on, the libraries?? representatives hope to determine what map belongs to what book—and thus to what library, she said. Harvard released a list last Friday of 13 maps missing from its collection. Smiley has admitted to stealing only eight of those maps, and the whereabouts of the remaining...
...attendees of this past October’s infamous dessert riot, this Harvard Yearbook description may seem to describe Harvard College Libraries?? (HCL) decision to keep Lamont open 24 hours a day on weekdays. But this year-in-review blurb was actually written 50 years ago, celebrating a successful student campaign in 1955-6 to extend the undergraduate library’s weekday closing time from 10 p.m. to the wee hour of midnight throughout the school year...
...patron borrowing records has remained consistent: librarians have been instructed to forward requests to the Office of General Counsel. Last month’s compromise specified that the FBI could not demand e-mail and internet use records from libraries, although it can still demand them from the libraries?? internet service providers. Where the Patriot Act originally included a “gag rule” forbidding recipients of FBI requests for library patron information from speaking about them, the compromise provided the option of judicial review of the gag rule. The Patriot Act renewal legislation made explicit...
...time soon. The next last-minute dash to Lamont to take out that never-purchased coursepack better not run over the mandated borrowing limits for on-reserve items, lest the violator fall victim to the recent 100 percent hike in per-minute fines. On Feb. 1, all reserve-holding libraries??Cabot, Fine Arts, Fung, Harvard-Yenching, Lamont, Littauer, Loeb Music, Tozzer, and the Quad—upped the penalty for late items from one cent per minute to two cents per minute. While the general reaction seemed to be one of dismissal, or mild surprise followed by dismissal...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will retain its present level of access to patron records at libraries??including Harvard’s—until March 10, after Congress voted to temporarily renew the U.S.A. Patriot Act Thursday. This second short-term renewal signals lawmakers’ reluctance to reauthorize the legislation over the long-term without changing the extent of the government’s access to library records. Harvard officials have argued that the FBI’s ability to demand patron information could have a chilling effect on academic freedom. “There...