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...their laptops, thanks to a new, free program which Harvard University Library (HUL) hopes to introduce this spring. HUL’s “Scan and Deliver” program will assure that students no longer have to battle their way through Cambridge snow to Widener Library to request that obscure book needed for a paper that, unfortunately, sits in the off-campus depository. Scan and Deliver represents a great step in making HUL’s holdings more accessible and modernized. After its implementation, students will hopefully be able to access digitalized book excerpts from the University?...
HUL’s collections are extensive to the point that many students cannot conceive of their magnitude. This new program will ideally work to open up resources that have been under-utilized in the purgatory of the Depository. Students’ ability to request excerpts from a book and then receive it after two business days from their computers represents a step forward in such accessibility. Removing delivery trucks from the equation also means that books might be accessible well before the stated wait of two business days, depending on how quickly a library can upload the work...
Scan and Deliver demonstrates a willingness on the part of HUL to utilize technology to the Harvard community. The Electronic Document Delivery (EDD) project website acknowledges that this innovation has been requested by library users for years. HUL has clearly listened; it has answered such requests comprehensively. Students will be able to request up to five books per day. The limit of 30 pages per work might cause some difficulties for students writing longer papers needing citations from multiple works, but additional materials can be requested the following day, and this realistically should not pose a major problem...
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