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Verba says the University library has been searching for a new archivist for almost a year and chose Sniffin-Marinoff out of a broad pool of potential candidates...
...Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, currently the librarian and deputy director of Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library, will head eastward this September when she becomes the new Harvard University Archivist under Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, director of the University Library...
...Sniffin-Marinoff takes up her position at Harvard at a time when the archival field as a whole grapples with the challenges of new technology—a mixed blessing, according to her colleagues, which has presented some unprecedented questions about the preservation of intangible digital materials...
...Sniffin-Marinoff said they expected to reopen the third floor by late August, but that she “would not be surprised if it reopens earlier.” Until then, she said most of the materials on the third floor are not rare and can be found in other campus libraries...
There is no lasting damage to any of the books, according to Sniffin-Marinoff, and only 5 percent of the books are actually affected by the mold. Still, some 60,000 books have been taken out of circulation while the problem is rectified...