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Without extensive genetic testing, Harvard librarians still do not have the “foggiest notion” of how many volumes wrapped in human hide exist throughout the system, says Director of University Libraries Sidney Verba ’53. But they have identified three such volumes in the Langdell Law Library, Countway Library of Medicine, and the Houghton Collection. The three books range in content from medieval law to Roman poetry to French philosophy...
...taken liberties with our liberties, Harvard’s higher-ups have worked—though not hard enough—to keep the long arm of Big Brotherly law from reaching into our Houses, classrooms, and libraries.To their credit, people like Director of the University Library Sidney Verba and Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey have spoken out this semester against the provisions of the PATRIOT Act that let the feds obtain library and other student records on demand.But Mass. Hall has been mum on other intrusive programs like the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS...
...professors on the call were Jeremy R. Knowles, the former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Sidney Verba ’53, the Pforzheimer University professor and director of the University library system. The Corporation was represented by Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ closest friend on the board...
...civil-liberties provisions. “It is a positive development that an extension was necessary, driven by a conflict over just how robust the protections for privacy should be,” Casey wrote in an e-mail. According to Director of the University Library Sidney Verba ’53, the extent of federal access to patron information is a serious concern for libraries. Under current Patriot Act provisions, the FBI can demand an individual’s borrowing history from the library, as well as library Internet and e-mail records, if these records are relevant...
...what books an individual has checked out, as well as patron internet and e-mail usage information, according to FBI spokesman William D. Carter. But that information must pertain to a specific individual involved in an ongoing terrorism or intelligence investigation, Carter said.Director of the Harvard University Library Sid Verba ’53 said that, to his knowledge, the University has received no such requests for information. But Verba expressed concern about the powers granted to the FBI under the Patriot Act. “There is really a very serious principle here having to do with people?...