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The Library Implementation Group, charged this fall with making concrete changes to the University library system by the winter of 2010, will instead generate another, more specific round of proposals at the end of its one-year tenure.
The Implementation Group—which was charged with reforming Harvard libraries’ sprawling administrative structure, adjusting the collection policy to meet financial constraints, and unifying the disparate information technology systems across the libraries—will now provide “another layer of recommendations,?...
If the Task Force report was “diagnostic,” the Implementation Group, which meets at least two times a month, is focusing on the logistics of “com[ing] up with a set of solutions,” Lamberth said.
In addition, the Harvard College Library—the largest library unit within the University—forged a collaboration with MIT last month to provide undergraduates at the respective institutions access to both libraries.
Since the Implementation Group’s inception, members of the Faculty have expressed concerns that their thoughts would not be incorporated in library reform—a particularly potent concern because their research is so intertwined with the libraries. The Faculty Advisory Group, a channel for concerns from the...