Tag: Harvard Library system

  • Nation & World

    New tool removes study space stress

    Thanks to a new digital tool, finding a study space at one of Harvard’s libraries is more tailor-made than time-consuming.

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  • Nation & World

    Scholarly access to all

    Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, a free and open portal for the University’s peer-reviewed literature, is drawing more worldwide downloads than ever.

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  • Nation & World

    Garber welcomed as provost

    At a welcoming reception, Harvard President Drew Faust relayed the praise she received for incoming Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 throughout her search for a replacement for Steven E. Hyman.

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  • Nation & World

    Alan Garber named provost

    President Drew Faust announced that Alan M. Garber ’76, the Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor, and professor of medicine and economics at Stanford University, will become the next provost of Harvard University.

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  • Nation & World

    Renewing Harvard’s library system

    Setting a fresh course for the future of the Harvard library system, University leaders have embraced a series of recommendations from the Library Implementation Work Group to establish a coordinated management structure and increasingly focus resources on the opportunities presented by new information technology.

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  • Nation & World

    New learning space opens in Lamont

    Lamont Library recently opened Collaborative Learning Space, an innovative learning space designed to foster collaboration and bring a new level of flexibility to library instruction.

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  • Nation & World

    Libraries launch ‘Expeditions and Discoveries’

    Harvard’s Open Collections Program has launched “Expeditions and Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age.” Through the new collection, Internet users can find thousands of maps, photographs, and published materials, along with field notes, letters, and unique manuscript materials on sponsored exploration and related scientific discoveries between 1626 and 1953.

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  • Nation & World

    Harvard University Library awarded $5M grant from Arcadia Fund

    Britain’s Arcadia Fund has awarded $5 million to the Harvard University Library. Arcadia’s five-year grant will provide flexible support for the library’s core functions: acquisitions, access, preservation, and dissemination.

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  • Nation & World

    National Endowment for the Humanities supports preservation of Qajar dynasty

    The National Endowment for the Humanities has made a $346,733 grant to a team of Qajar historians. The purpose of this grant, which lasts from May 2009 to June 2011, is to develop a comprehensive digital archive and Web site at Harvard University that will preserve, link, and render accessible primary source materials related to…

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  • Nation & World

    Geospatial Library relaunched

    Following a yearlong process of redesign and testing, the University Library’s Office for Information Systems has relaunched the Harvard Geospatial Library (HGL), the University’s catalog and repository of data for geographic information systems (GIS). The new HGL offers an enhanced user experience through new functionality and a highly intuitive interface.

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  • Nation & World

    Harvard announces Library Task Force

    Provost Steven Hyman today (Feb. 27) announced the formation of a task force charged with developing recommendations to make the Harvard Library system stronger and more responsive to the needs of students and faculty at a time of both technological change and financial challenge.

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