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...report, which was released on November 12, suggested that the library system unite its 73 different libraries under a common administrative structure and rely more on digital files than on physical books. The report stated that the system can no longer hope to collect all books in every field and must begin prioritizing its acquisitions...
Among the changes discussed in the report was the possibility of closing departmental libraries within Widener and uniting those holdings into the larger library collection. But doing so would be “a tragedy,” said Andrew C. Johnston, a fourth-year graduate student in classics...
...Scanlan said he thinks that the experience of wandering the stacks of Widener “is such a profound stimulus to the imagination.” But Harvard University Library Director Robert C. Darnton ’60, emphasized that “people should not misunderstand the report and take it as a draft for the library of the future...
...contrast to humanities students’ and professors’ responses to the report, members of science departments said they were less concerned with the proposed changes. Chemistry Professor James G. Anderson said the debate between the sciences and the humanities on this topic has been an ongoing theme of faculty meetings...
...Minneapolis I-35W bridge spanning the Mississippi River collapsed, killing 13 and injuring 145. The National Transportation Safety Board later cited a design flaw as the cause, but the bridge had been classified as "structurally deficient" since 1991, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation Highway Accident Report. The bridge, which opened in 1967, was scheduled to be replaced in 2020. How many other bridges, roads and dams are death traps-in-waiting? No one knows, but you can't help wondering if squeezed maintenance budgets are making our country less safe. A 2005 report card on American infrastructure...