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Those seeds of inspiration from which senior theses spring are found in many places. Some students search the bowels of Widener, conversing with cracked tomes and sun-starved dust particles. Others wrestle with armies of spreadsheet numbers, prodding this column and that variable in search of deeper trends. Charity D...
After the library conducted an inventory-a lengthy process because of Widener's extensive 3.5 million-volume collection-library officials contacted the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD).
Many of the pamphlets, journals and books in Widener's collection were bound together in larger volumes because of their individual fragility. Also included in the larger bound volumes were obituaries and Napoleonic proclamations.
Security at Widener is already very good, McNamara said. But since the theft's discovery, the library has increased security with more HUPD personnel throughout the facility-particularly in the stacks, Brainard said.
Widener is undergoing extensive renovations to enhance the library's ability to preserve its collections. The renovated stacks will include increased security measures-for example, card swipers. The completion date for the renovations is spring 2002.