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Tag: Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library
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Campus & Community
Shining a light on a genius
Architect Julian Abele is responsible for the design of Harvard’s Widener l Library, where his role, until recently, had gone largely unacknowledged.
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Campus & Community
Going forward, a look back
The University in 2015-16 saw milestones related to diversity, scientific advances, and the renaming of the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Treasures hiding in plain sight
A program at Widener Library rescues vulnerable holdings from its 65 miles of shelves by linking alert students with Harvard authorities on conservation and digitization.
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Arts & Culture
Widener Library rises from Titanic tragedy
The ship disaster a century ago led to the drowning of three men affiliated with Harvard. It also prompted a memorial gift that quickly led to construction of the University’s flagship book repository.
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Arts & Culture
Treasure island
Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.
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Arts & Culture
The history at Houghton
Houghton, a template for university literary archives everywhere, also has room for the odd: A Thoreau pencil, a Dickinson teacup, and more.
