Harvard U. Library Announces New Organizational Design and Strategic Direction
From Today’s Letter to the Harvard Community by Harvard U. Provost Alan Garber: Today, I write to share how a new organizational design and strategic direction, recently recommended by the Library...
View ArticleHarvard: "University to Offer Some Librarians Early Retirement"
From the The Harvard Crimson: The University will offer a Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Program to library employees 55 years and older with 10 years of service under their belts, according to a...
View ArticleRare Books: A Look at Several Recently Digitized Books From Harvard's...
From the Houghton Library Blog: An exciting array of materials have recently been digitized at Houghton. They include manuscript material from Joanna Baillie, George Eliot, John Keats, Charles Lamb,...
View ArticleLinking Libraries, Museums, Archives: Archivist of the U.S. David Ferriero...
From the Harvard Gazette: The archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, says that one of the core challenges facing today’s librarians, archivists, and museum curators is the need for them to...
View ArticleHarvard Crimson: “Future of Harvard Libraries Uncertain”
From The Harvard Crimson: As doubts about the future of Harvard libraries have mounted, what faculty, library workers, and administrators have called lackluster communication on the part of the...
View ArticleJournal Pricing is an “Untenable Situation Facing the Harvard Library”
From a Letter by the Harvard Faculty Advisory Council to All Harvard Faculty Members (via Harvard U. Library Transition Web Site) We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard...
View ArticleHarvard Magazine on “The Libraries’ Rocky Transition”
From the May-June 2012 Issue of Harvard Magazine: The aim is both to reduce duplication of effort across what had been 73 separate libraries, and to coordinate strategic initiatives going forward,...
View ArticleLibraryThing’s OverCat Now Includes All 12.3 Million Open Access...
That’s the word in a recent post on the LibraryThing Blog. Big Kudos to LT! From the Blog Post: It took a while to process, but we’ve finally completed adding all 12.3 million MARC records (3.1GB of...
View ArticleMary Lee Kennedy Leaving Harvard For Chief Library Officer Job at NYPL
Here’s a portion of a letter to the Harvard Community by Provost Alan Garber: I write to share the news that Mary Lee Kennedy [Senior Associate Provost for the Harvard Library] will be leaving Harvard...
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