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...depository unit, which had a capacity for two million volumes, had been used mainly for archival storage. De Gennaro built a second unit, which can also hold 2 million volumes. The Southborough facility has the capacity for eight more such buildings...
What began when De Gennaro arrived was the touchy task of determining which books should be sent to Southborough, and thus out of the immediate reach of scholars and students. Depository books must be ordered a day in advance, though library officials say that as depository use increases, the number of trips made there per day will also increase...
Over the next four years, De Gennaro says he plans to ship about a million volumes to Southborough...
...Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Richard De Gennaro, and out went the P through PF section of Widener. Well, not all of the books--just the ones that hadn't been taken out in five years. And they weren't going far, just to the depository in Southborough, Mass--where all books are supposedly accessible within 24 hours...
What if the idea of exporting the University's goods to safe storage havens catches on? Poor John Harvard will end up in a box somewhere. Mass Hall will be hauled up and set on a new foundation in Southborough. The Straus Cup will be tossed around by chimpanzees...