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Verba said Wendorf, a specialist in both literature and fine arts, was "perfect" to direct Houghton, with its holdings of both visual and book collections...
Richard Wendorf, librarian of Houghton Library, has been named the director and librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, a cultural center housing a book collection and art gallery...
Wendorf, who has overseen Houghton's collection of rare books for seven years, will assume his new position in February...
Wendorf said he hopes to oversee the completion of renovations on Houghton's reading room and the addition of Houghton's card catalog to the Hollis computer database before he leaves Harvard...
Only 2,000 copies of Peterson's Guide were printed at first; the publisher, Houghton Mifflin, doubted whether much of the reading public would be interested. A second printing was ordered after the first one sold out in one week, and the Peterson bird guides--he added one covering the species of the Western U.S. in 1941--have been selling, to the tune of some 7 million copies, ever since. Peterson produced, alone or with collaborators, scores of other guides on such subjects as wildflowers, butterflies, mammals and minerals. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. He received...