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Tag: Harvard Library
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Screech owl wisdom
‘Alfie and Me’ ecologist on what he learned as he bonded with bird
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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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Lost in fictional maps
Fantasy worlds from Middle Earth to Westeros come to life in Harvard Library exhibit.
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Murder, misguided creativity, and other tales in salt prints
The early photo technique — and stories of people in front of, behind camera — get new exposure as Harvard digitizes vast collection.
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A mending library
Once a semester, Cambridge-area residents visit Cabot Science Library along with Harvard students and staff for a “Fix-it Clinic.”
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In new collecting model, former Liberian president Sirleaf’s papers come to Harvard Library
Under an innovative agreement, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will place her personal archives with Harvard Library for at least 25 years, where they will be processed to be publicly discoverable and accessible.
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Choose your adventure in 20 summer reads
Harvard Library staffers share their summer recommendations.
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HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard team up to expand access to Black history
The HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard Library will work together to deepen capacity for the digitization, discovery, and preservation of African American history collections held in HBCU libraries and archives.
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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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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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Preservation in a pandemic — and beyond
Preservation Services Director Brenda Bernier discusses preservation during a pandemic — and what comes next.
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Preserving the future
Collaborative problem-solving has been key to the success of Harvard’s Weissman Preservation Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
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Explore Widener in all its glory, from your desk or phone
Explore Harvard’s Widener Library, from its marble rotunda to the Loker Reading Room, through a new 360-degree virtual tour.
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An update of changes on campus as pandemic spreads
Changes across Harvard’s campus reflect the need to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Colonial North America at Harvard Library
A digitized collection from 14 repositories around Harvard University contains almost 650,000 images of handmade materials from the 17th and 18th centuries. Here’s a peek.
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Partnering means more at the library
Harvard Library’s key alliances create a vast universe of information for Harvard faculty and students.
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New leader for Harvard Library
Martha Whitehead, Queen’s University’s vice provost and librarian, has been named to lead Harvard Library beginning in June.
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Special exhibits mark Bacow inauguration
To honor its past and its future, Harvard will offer special exhibits on Oct. 4 and 5 during the inauguration of Larry Bacow, the University’s 29th president.
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Keeping first-years informed
The Harvard program First-Year Librarians in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is an effort to strengthen connections between students and staff.
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New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources
The newly redesigned Harvard Library website puts users first, with features that make it easy to discover and use its services, tools, and collections.
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Vice president of Harvard Library to retire
Sarah E. Thomas will retire from her roles as vice president of the Harvard Library and University librarian and as Roy E. Larsen Librarian of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the end of this year.
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Students helping students
Harvard Library’s Peer Research Fellow program assists students with research questions, taking them way beyond the basics.
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Scroll through Colonial life
After two years and 450,000 documents, the digitized Colonial North American Project will be available online to the public in late October.
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Lights, camera, Cabot
At the Cabot Science Library camera, multimedia studios require no more than a flash drive and imagination.
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A ‘Catalogue’ of dance
William Forsythe dance work will be the first live performance at Harvard’s Widener Library.
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The sweep of jazz history
Pianist and composer Randy Weston visits campus on the eve of Harvard acquiring his personal archive.
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Guarding the dazzle of the past
The Gazette visited the Weissman Preservation Center to see how conservators preserve Harvard’s rare and unique collections.
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Comic genius
Cartoonist and visiting lecturer Peter Kuper spoke to the Gazette about comics as an art form, and some of the comic materials in Harvard’s collections.
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Speaking up through Shakespeare
An exhibit at Houghton Library marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death includes artifacts that recognize the acting and activism of black Shakespearean actors.
