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Sidney Verba ’53, Pforzheimer University professor and director of the University Library, says he was concerned about the intellectual integrity of Harvard’s libraries??10 divisions of the Harvard College Library and 90 University-wide—following the passage of the Patriot...
Given some other libraries?? unsubstantiated reports of coercion from government officials, he says it is possible library workers could find themselves in an awkward position with contradictory imperatives from the government and their employers. “Either they get in trouble with their supervisor or they get in trouble with the law,” he says...
...things can be said with certainty. HCL is cash-strapped and troubled; it has been desperately trying to slash costs, using methods including firing employees. Why one would put an admittedly expensive and complicated operation—even though its budget will be transferred over to the libraries??inside an organization that is having massive financial and structural difficulties is a mystery. Intellectually, it makes little sense to take films studied within VES out of the control of the VES professors, who are presumably the best suited to run such a collection. Some members of the film community...
...portion of the estimated 208,000 volumes that currently reside within Hilles’ confines may be eliminated from the Harvard College Library (HCL) collection as the ability to sustain Hilles’ duplications—much of the collection is found elsewhere among HCL’s eleven libraries??proves too great a budgetary burden...
...Chopra, increasing 24-hour access to student spaces around campus—like dining halls and libraries??would ameliorate crowding...