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With more than 20 years of innovation and accomplishment serving as director of Harvard University Libraries (HUL), Sidney Verba ’53 has become the yardstick by which all librarians will be measured. Throughout his tenure, Verba has managed to keep Harvard ahead of the curve, never afraid to experiment with new technologies and inspirations to our evolving library system. From expanding our library’s connectivity in the Library Digital Initiative, to increasing storage via the Harvard Depository, to spearheading Harvard’s partnership with Google to digitize thousands of public-domain books, Verba has proven...
...Verba sought to revolutionize and redefine the concept of the digitized library catalog through his vision to outmode traditional paradigms of searching such as HOLLIS and WorldCat. This vision culminated in the birth of the Google Print Library project (since renamed the Google Book Search project), which in its culmination will not only enable users to obtain the customary title, author, publisher, or ISBN of a book by simple query, but also allow them to search within the content of all scanned volumes for keywords, sometimes returning even full passages from the text in question. The intended goal...
...Indeed, Verba said that he is sometimes known as the “Ado Annie of academia,” referring to a character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma, who sings, “I’m just a girl who can?...
...think of Harvard as an institution that transformed my life,” Verba said. “I don’t want to sound schmaltzy or sentimental, but that’s one of the reasons I like doing these things for the University because the University had an impact on my life...
With his extensive experience in delivering decisions on controversial issues, Verba is the go-to guy for sticky situations...