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Tag: Anna Burgess
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‘These are all just young people like us, figuring themselves out’
High-schoolers get taste of everyday campus life through archival materials, some featuring Harvard’s most famous alumni.
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Choose your adventure in 20 summer reads
Harvard Library staffers share their summer recommendations.
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‘The code word … is interoperability’
The International Image Interoperability Framework makes online access as good as, or better than, physical interaction with library collections.
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Rushing to save her homeland — or at least its story
Harvard bibliographer Olha Aleksic rushes to save her homeland — or at least its story.
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A page from the pros
Responses range from Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction to essays on race in America to memoirs of artists and restaurateurs.
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Preserving voice of president — and thousands of others
Harvard Library preservation staff races against time to save historical media artifacts.
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Users give Houghton renovation a thumbs-up
Changes to Harvard’s Houghton Library include better accessibility, expanded exhibition spaces, and updated classrooms.
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With digital archive, a time and a new way to understand colonial history
Harvard Library’s completed digitization project offers opportunities to broaden the scholarly view of colonial era.
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And how about the time Churchill snuck into Commencement — in September
University archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, who is retiring after almost 20 years at Harvard, shares notable Commencements and Harvard University Archives’ role in preserving each year’s ceremony.
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New, improved, and almost open
With renovations complete, accessibility enhanced, and new collections to show off, staff at the Houghton Library look forward to welcoming visitors again.
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History in a snap … or two
When William Rittase photographed Harvard in 1932, many of its iconic buildings were new. We recreated some of those images this fall to see what’s changed.
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In a word
Stories from Harvard faculty, students, staff about writing’s place in a pandemic and playing host to Renée Fleming.
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This year, a single digitization focus at Houghton
For the 2020‒21 academic year, Houghton will pause all digital projects to focus solely on building a digital collection related to Black American history, building a collection called “Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom.”
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Mentors make the difference
Over seven years, Professor of Education Roberto Gonzales interviewed thousands of undocumented young people who qualified for deferred action from deportation under DACA, and found that for high achievers among them, community and family mentors made the difference.
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Spreading the knowledge
Harvard’s copyright “first responders” program has equipped a group of University librarians with the knowledge to help library users navigate the tricky field of copyright law.
