Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But the University now gets income from more than 600 named book-buying funds, is seeking more, and recently established several named endowment funds for which it seeks donors. At the top are a $5 million bibliographers program, a $3 million microforms center, a $2 million preservation center, and a...
What library officials and scholars agree on, a heart, is that Harvard's reputation as a scholarship university stands directly on the strength of its research library, and that the problems of space and preservation are acute. The size and scope of the system offer tremendous bait to professors being...
Jeff is director of the Loon Preservation Committee of New Hampshire. Janis, who had checked the nest in this cove just an hour earlier, is a summer fieldworker. "They must have just been hatched," she said.
"They're hugging the shore line," said Jeff. "I think they've just come off the nest. Let's give them some peace." He idled the engine down while the loons swam around a point and out of sight. Just after the young are hatched, loons move...
They call themselves the loon rangers. They have counterparts in north-country states from Maine to Wisconsin. In New Hampshire in 1979, the three-year-old Loon Preservation Committee found that only 39 lakes were being used by nesting loons, a decrease of 50% over 50 years. The population had...