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Beth Brainard, an HCL spokeswoman, said that hours during J-Term will only be slightly reduced from those of past intersessions. Many senior thesis writers have traditionally stayed on campus to conduct research during intersession, and the College administration has said it will give those students preference to stay during this year’s J-Term as well...
...mail to staff in which she announced the J-Term hours, Nancy M. Cline, HCL’s chief librarian, wrote that the budget cutting process has left the library staff with “relatively little depth” and “less resilience for handling vacancies, absences, or unexpected volumes of work”—prompting the hours reductions this Winter Break...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Winter Break will run from Dec. 22 to Jan. 3 this year, and the J-Term will run from...
During the J-Term, all HCL libraries will stay open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and Houghton Library and Widener Library will be kept open on weekends and certain weekday evenings as well. Brainard said that Houghton, which serves as Harvard’s primary repository for rare books and manuscripts, is often utilized by visiting scholars during academic breaks...
Brainard said that even though HCL hours are being reduced during January, all library staff will still be assigned the same number of hours during the J-Term as during the normal semester. Many staff members opt to take vacation days during January, she said, and others may be assigned to alternate shifts. Moreover, most student employees will not be working during that time, as they will not be on campus...