Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin--who emphasized that he came to Harvard as College librarian after the transfer of volumes to the science center had been approved--said that he favored the purchase of new books for Hilles to fill the holes left by the move...
Erickson argued that the return of the books to Hilles would "destroy the Science Center library." Martin stressed that the transfer of books from Hilles, Lamont and Widner was done to stock a science library that "could not be equaled by either Lamont or Hilles," and that a "great deal of care was taken to minimize" the inconvenience to students...
Several students argued that the exceptionally large percentage of science concentrators living at Radcliffe--36 per cent of Currier House alone--made the transfer of books from Hilles unjustifiable...
...many non-science concentrators complained that the transfer also inhibits interdisciplinary work that requires research in both science and non-science volumes, and that Hilles has been weakened as an undergraduate liberal-arts library by the lack of breadth in its collection...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, said that the science faculty had not been consulted about the transfer of volumes from Hilles, and he added that a random poll of science faculty would show that "they are all very dismayed...