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Verba's grant of $913,519 was the largest single grant of the $30.9 million the NEH awarded this year, and came from the NEH program for Preservation and Access, which distributed $18.9 million of the overall funds.
The project is part of the University's ongoing efforts to preserve its library resources. Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian Jan Merrill-Oldham said Harvard applies for preservation grants approximately every two years, and a council composed of representatives from various Harvard libraries, in coordination with members of the Harvard faculty...
While microfilm is being used for the books covered by this year's grant, the media used in preservation usually varies according to the qualities of the original material. Merrill-Oldham said that even after copying, the original documents are nearly always kept and preserved as well as possible.
The Weissman Preservation Center and the Preservation and Imaging Department at Widener Library are the two agencies most responsible for coordinating preservation efforts across the Harvard Library system.
As time goes on, the desire of young Europeans to pursue those ideals - in essence, the desire for a high quality of life - could have broader implications, strengthening support for the idea that such common aspirations can be realized through pan-European cooperation. Expanding access to the good life, for...