Word: collectionitis
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“Harvard libraries can no longer harbor delusions of being a completely comprehensive collection,” the report said in a sober assessment of the challenges facing the system.
In order to alleviate budgetary pressures, the report prescribes a series of solutions, among them the possibility of closing some of Harvard’s 73 libraries and reassessing the University’s ambitious, comprehensive collection strategy.
“No single institution can bear the burden of acquiring the entire world’s informational output,” the report says, acknowledging that Harvard’s previous strategy of a “single university” collection is unsustainable.
Among the few belongings that Major Nidal Malik Hasan didn't give away, and left behind in his Casa del Norte apartment near Fort Hood, was his stash of prescription and over-the-counter medications. Stuffed into a shoe box and left in the laundry room, the collection included vitamins...
Khan's collection was also a reminder of the origins of Pakistani high fashion. In 1972, she triggered what she calls a "minor revolution" with a couple of arresting alterations to the national dress. "Back then, the shalwar kameez - baggy trousers and long tunic - was basically a glorified pajama suit...