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...other business, Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53 formally announced Harvard’s plan, in conjunction with Google, to digitally scan and place online 40,000 books, with a view to eventually placing almost all of Harvard’s 15 million volumes online...
Harvard will make the books available and Google will scan the books and bear all costs, according to Pforzheimer University Professor Sid Verba ’53, who is director of the Harvard University Library (HUL). Verba said that making Harvard’s books available digitally has long been a priority but until now has been infeasible...
...collaboration with Google allows us to do something that we could not have possibly afforded on our own,” Verba said. Google Product Manager Adam Smith declined to comment on the cost of the project, citing company practice of not disclosing the terms of business deals...
...project—which is estimated to take six months—has been in the planning stages for over a year and received the approval of the University’s top governing body, the Harvard Corporation, Verba said...
...implemented with or without the J-term, would mean 62 days of class for each semester, five to eight days of reading period and an eight-day exam period, according to a report issued last spring by the University committee on calendar reform chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53. Were a J-term to be adopted, there may still be an intercession...