Tag: Harvard Library Board

  • Nation & World

    Building the Harvard Library

    The Harvard University Library’s senior leadership team is now in place, an important step in the transition process that will set the course for the library’s future.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Library organization plan, timeline announced

    The new Harvard Library system will join individual libraries together into five affinity groups based on similar collection needs, content areas, or specialized activities, according to Provost Alan Garber, who unveiled the new organizational plan Sept. 28.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Kennedy named senior associate provost

    Mary Lee Kennedy, executive director of knowledge and library services at Harvard Business School, has been named senior associate provost for the Harvard Library.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Looking ahead

    He’s an economist, a researcher, and a physician, and he’s about to become provost. On the day (April 15) that President Drew Faust announced that he would be Harvard’s next provost, Alan M. Garber ’76 sat down with the Gazette to talk about his career, his new role, and facilitating connections across traditional academic boundaries…

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Library Board names executive director

    The Harvard Library Board today (Dec. 20) named Helen Shenton as the first executive director of the new Harvard Library, turning to a veteran of the British Library to develop a more coordinated management structure for the oldest library in the Western Hemisphere.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hyman to step down as provost

    Provost Steven E. Hyman, who spurred an expansion of interdisciplinary research at Harvard and has overseen the revitalization of the University’s libraries and many of its museums and cultural institutions, plans to leave his post after nearly a decade.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    10 named to new Harvard Library Board

    President Drew Faust has announced the names of the first 10 members of the new Harvard Library Board, which will oversee the transition of the University’s vast library system to a coordinated structure.

    3 minutes