Word: hours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority of Radcliffe students replying to a recent Student Government Association poll on the use of the library overwhelmingly rejected a suggestion to extend the closing hour from 10 to 11 p.m. The questionnaire quoted library officials as stating that reserve books would have to circulate for overnight use at 9 p.m. instead of at 4:30 p.m., if the later closing time were approved...
Labelling the choices listed on the questionnaire as "absolutely ridiculous," several other 'Cliffies wrote in a third alternative--extending the closing hour till 11 with reserve books to circulate at 4:30. Most of the write-in voters questioned the "financial reasons" which the poll cited as precluding this possibility...
Librarians are traditionally a stodgy lot. The faculty committee on Libraries, however, deserves commendation for breaking tradition and imposing a three-hour limit on the circulation of Lamont closed research books. Come Reading Period, the glorious era of hidden volumes and missing books may be ended. Desks will no longer provide a sanctuary for reserve volumes; with Bursar's card checks, the invading hordes from neighboring colleges will be eliminated...
Reserve books should circulate outside Lamont to make the new three-hour system fully effective. At Radcliffe, such a system has operated with great success--and without the loss of books the Faculty Committee evidently fears. Unless books can be removed from the building, Lamont will remain an overgrown study hall--which Harvard should have outgrown...
...Johns Hopkins File (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). A half-hour bull session about the late bull-tempered H. L. Mencken...