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“Widener doesn’t have a lot of these books,” he says, “so I feel I’m doing a service to humanity by collecting them.”
Why is this guy looking in your backpack, indeed? Entering Widener library, a student first must swipe his Harvard ID through a turnstile, which is monitored by a security guard. Then, at the entrance to the stacks, a separate guard inspects the IDs; the Phillips Reading Room also requires ID...
If all 37 Harvard libraries on campus (and there are 90 in the whole system) employed a security guard 12 hours a day for an average 320 days a year—at a rate of at least $10 an hour—this would amount to more than $1.4...
For example, a simple improvement could be made at Lamont and Cabot science libraries by installing a turnstile to check IDs rather than employing an additional security guard. This measure has already proven effective at Widener and Langdell library at the Law School.
Sketchiest moment at Harvard: The first time I had to do research in Widener, getting locked in the stacks in the dark after closing.