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...second phase of the University’s development plan for Allston involves greening the community, and the planning of Library Park—a public park for the neighborhood behind the Honan Allston Library??has also already begun, according to Spiegelman...
...defended the report’s timing, explaining that redesigning the library??s “labyrinthine” administrative system has been a topic of discussion at Harvard for over a decade and was not triggered by the recent financial crisis...
...weeks ago, over 100 professors signed a letter to University administrators expressing concerns about the library??s diminishing acquisitions. The letter was addressed to University President Drew G. Faust, Provost Steven E. Hyman and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith, who were all in attendance yesterday...
...Hazen, head of acquisitions for Harvard College Library??the largest unit within the University’s decentralized library system—wrote in a report in June that over the past few years, “our efforts have been flagging already, to widespread consternation and alarm.” He wrote that those difficulties would be exacerbated this year by what he predicted to be a 15 percent drop in the acquisition budget...
...resource. We should focus instead on acquiring texts so that they are accessible to students on demand, rather than participating in lending programs that open up competition for books to a wider audience and make the process of gaining access a book difficult. Rather than curtailing the Harvard College Library??s growth by shifting toward lending rather than acquisition, the university should continue to focus on reforms like centralization and digitization, which are in line with the goal of maintaining an academic treasure while also making it efficient...