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More specifically, the role of Harvard's library book checkers is to insure that all Harvard College library books have been properly checked out, according to David W. Muir '67, supervisor of security guards in Harvard College libraries...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Checking You Out | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

...Muir says he has even been frightened by the contents of a bag. When he was a book checker, he says, he found a skull...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Checking You Out | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

Book checkers themselves "come in all flavors and intensities," Prim says. The guards hail from a variety of backgrounds: editors, psychologists, Ph.D's, writers and painters have all staffed the entrances of Harvard's libraries, according to Muir...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Checking You Out | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

...Every guard has his or her own personality, and you don't want to go against the grain of that personality," Muir says...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Checking You Out | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

...have had a few guards over the years who have really developed a rapport with kids. Horace has a way with kids," says Muir...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Checking You Out | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

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