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The New Frontier Awards, which are cosponsored by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the IOP, are given annually at the Forum to two Americans under the age of 40 in recognition of their public service contributions.
After the recent release of the University’s Library Task Force Report, some humanities professors and graduate students have expressed concern over the document’s suggestion that the Harvard University library system may need to limit future expansion.
The report, which was released on November 12, suggested that the library system unite its 73 different libraries under a common administrative structure and rely more on digital files than on physical books. The report stated that the system can no longer hope to collect all books in every field...
Among the changes discussed in the report was the possibility of closing departmental libraries within Widener and uniting those holdings into the larger library collection. But doing so would be “a tragedy,” said Andrew C. Johnston, a fourth-year graduate student in classics.
Johnston said that while choosing amongst graduate schools, he was drawn to Harvard in part because he knew that regardless of whether a book was available in circulation, he would be able to find it in the Classics library.