Word: littauer
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...starts early on in the semester. Somebody walks up to one and asks for the Littauer building. One is green enough not to know—---or even to be aware—that there are in fact two Littauer buildings on campus, and that the visitor could mean either one. Thereafter one makes sure to memorize the names of all the Boston Brahmins associated with the various faux Colonial structures one encounters. When one can safely direct anyone to the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room, the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library or the Arthur and Elisabeth Schlesinger Library...
Undergraduates, many of whom had already completed research on their senior theses, flocked to the Government Documents collection in the basement of Lamont Library last week. They went not in search of research materials but instead sought to prevent Gov Docs’ possible relocation to Littauer Library...
...committee has offered no alternatives to relocating Gov Docs to Littauer, but such a move would be a serious handicap to undergraduates. Gov Docs’ current location in Lamont is convenient to undergraduates without hindering the access of the public, who are legally required to be able to see the collections. A move to Littauer Library, far from the Widener-Pusey-Lamont complex that holds most resources used by undergraduates, not only offers no substantive advantages but would also make Gov Docs available for far fewer and less convenient hours during the day?...
With any luck, undergraduates’ response to the survey will give administrators pause and force them to consider alternatives to a move to Littauer. To this end, all students potentially affected by the move—and all those who have benefited from Gov Docs at its current location—should make an effort to have their voices heard. Although the Lamont survey was completed yesterday, a similar survey available at Littauer Library ends today...
Another survey, also designed by the HCL steering committee, asks a similar set of questions about Littauer Library, but it has not received the same level of attention from students as the Gov Docs questionnaire has. This second survey will be available at the entrance of Littauer Library until Tuesday, March...