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Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline said efforts to stretch the library??s budget will be multi-pronged. “There’s not any single simple plan,” Cline said. “But we’re looking on many, many fronts: finding different ways of acquiring materials so we can keep some of our processing costs in balance, we’re looking at tougher negotiations on some vendor contracts, we’re looking for many ways of using the library resources budget as carefully as possible...
...addition to discussing the high costs of journals to Harvard, Cline and Verba updated the Council on the library??s effort to make Harvard’s volumes available to other universities by digitally placing the text of books, journal articles, and other materials online...
Some students, who live in close proximity to either a common room or library??areas where wireless access points have already been installed—may already be able to access Harvard’s wireless network from their rooms...
...Beth Brainard, communications director of the Harvard College Library (HCL), the needs of the general public have little to do with the library??s mission “of supporting the teaching and research activities of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the University,” which she wrote in an e-mail. The only extended community which HCL recognizes is “the larger scholarly community,” which it serves as much as possible. Widener “was never intended to be a public library,” explained Brainard...
...room and part of the stacks. Current tours which halt on the steps outside provide tourists with frivolous stories about the founding of the library, but do not offer an insight into its inner workings. Yet it would be crucial to help our guests understand the meaning of a library??how it is not a repository for knowledge so much as a tool for creating new knowledge; how scholars make old texts yield new answers by posing new questions, and why our ever-expanding collection matters. In this day it is irresponsible to ignore the needs...