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As soon as I envision this admittedly distant prospect, though, I can’t help but feel a measure of nostalgia, already, mixed with my exhilaration. Last summer, I spent a glorious week in Dublin at the National Library of Ireland, reading dusty volumes of 18th-century pamphlets for...
Yet I can’t help but feel reservations. The challenge of looking for an elusive book is one of the singular joys of scholarship for me, part of what rescues it from becoming a mere exercise in pedantry or reinterpretation. Even Harvard’s relatively sensible library...
Harvard’s library system is one of its greatest treasures, constituting the largest academic library in the word, with over 16.8 million holdings. This enormous system has been maintained on the cheap for the past decade with a budget that has stayed generally stagnant while the rest of...
A library system of this magnitude contains texts that might not exist elsewhere, preserving a unique part of the world’s accumulated knowledge. A system of such importance should be one of the last to face drastic budget cuts, especially considering its already dire financial condition.
While library funding should be preserved, the library system should look for efficiencies that can improve quality and save money wherever possible. As the task force led by University Provost Steven E. Hyman has noted, the current decentralized system forces Harvard libraries to bid against each other to acquire the...