Word: taskings
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Seven months after its creation, a task force chaired by University Provost Steven E. Hyman is poised to recommend fundamental changes to Harvard’s library system this semester, with an eye toward cutting costs and centralizing its administrative structure...
Though the University Library Task Force’s preliminary recommendations remain vague, representatives identified establishing and implementing “a shared administrative infrastructure” and more efficiently acquiring materials for “a single University collection” at an open meeting Friday where Hyman was not present...
...significant findings of the task force is that the decentralized structure is one of the problems that the library system is facing at the present,” said Divinity School Professor David C. Lamberth, who chaired one of the task force’s four subcommittees...
...think it would be a mistake for us to be saying there’s no chance that there will be fewer independent libraries at the end of this process,” said Law School Professor John G. Palfrey ’94, who chaired the task force’s subcommittee on technological futures...
...Harvard Corporation—the University’s chief governing body—is poised to discuss the task force’s recommendations and to consider the task force’s mission statement for the libraries at their next meeting, according to Harvard University Library Director Robert C. Darnton...