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...Calendar reform has been a perennial issue at Harvard. In September 2003, then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the University’s deans publicly supported a universal calendar for Harvard’s schools and announced the creation of Verba??s cross-school committee to “consider and propose calendar guidelines applicable to Harvard as a whole...
...weeks later, Bok threw his hat into the ring. Citing Verba??s committee and the UC report, he wrote in a message to the Harvard community that “it seems only appropriate and fair to offer all interested parties an opportunity to be heard so that we may have a full range of arguments and views...
...thinking the ways that digital technology could add to the convention of publishing in history.”An awareness of the ever-expanding intersection between technology and research will be important for Harvard’s libraries, which have undertaken on a number of digitization projects under Verba??s leadership. Carrying on those efforts is one of many administrative challenges Darnton will face as he navigates the complicated waters of Harvard’s library structure.A ‘DIPLOMATIC JOB’Having a senior professor serve as chief librarian is a Harvard peculiarity, as many...
...Darnton will replace long-time library director Sidney Verba ’53 on July 1 and assume Verba??s post as the Pforzheimer University professor. Verba announced his intention to retire in September after leading the University Library for 23 years. The university librarian position is traditionally held by a senior faculty member at Harvard...
...This vital new endowment fund—and the tremendous generosity that it represents—demonstrates the long-term significance of Sidney Verba??s tenure in the University Library,” Fergusson wrote...