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...year-old proposal calls for moving the bulk of Harvard's microfilm readers, along with the most heavily used portions of the Government Documents collection, to the first floor of Lamont, which currently serves as a reading room with some stacks ofbooks...
University Librarian Richard DeGennaro,explaining the plan, said yesterday that Gov Docshas a severe shortage of space. He said additionalcomputers are required to handle an increase inuse of CD-ROM and that microfilm and microfichereaders are in short supply...
...case against Alger Hiss. A former State Department official, he was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviets, tried before a House committee led by Congressman Richard Nixon, and served a four-year term for perjury. Yet he has staunchly maintained his innocence, even in the face of microfilm evidence produced by former TIME editor Whittaker Chambers. Now comes word from an unlikely but authoritative source that Hiss, 87, may not have spied. After researching "a great amount of materials," General Dmitri Volkogonov, chairman of the Russian government's secret military-intelligence archives, announced he could find no evidence...
...fine print of an editor's note in the debut issue of the Harvard Review wryly states that the journal is not available in "microfilm, fiche, CD-ROM or cranial implant...
...credentials" (according to The New York Times) to see the photos. If you're interested, the library wants to know the purpose of your study project--along with letters of recommendation, ideally. Even then, you don't get to see the actual photograph negatives of the texts. You get microfilm...