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Tag: Harvard Library
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Nation & World
Robert Darnton closes the book
A historian, digital library pioneer, and champion of books, Robert Darnton will depart Harvard early this summer, giving up his post as University Librarian to resume a life of full-time scholarship.
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Saving the digital record
Changing with the times as the world moves from paper to digital, the Harvard Library has adopted forensic techniques to save material stored on obsolete formats.
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Ukraine comes into focus on film
Harvard Library is sponsoring a series of films by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa in conjunction with its exhibit “Lives of the Great Patriotic War.” The film series continues Nov. 15 and 17. The exhibit is open through Nov. 26 at the Pusey Library.
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Making ‘The Friedkin Connection’ at Harvard
A gift to the Harvard Library from William Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning director/producer of such films as “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” will mark a new kind of collection for Harvard — cinema memoir.
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Stages of conflict
“From the Alps to the Ocean: Maps of the Western Front,” at Pusey Library through Nov. 11, captures the magnitude and destructive momentum of World War I.
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Where books (and more) go to wait
The massive, complex Harvard Depository provides almost instant access to vast stores of knowledge.
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The genesis of genius
Tiny, hand-lettered, hand-bound books Charlotte and Branwell Brontë made as children have been lovingly restored at the Harvard Library.
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Grasping with the eyes
A symposium on data visualization brought together experts from campus and beyond to show how technology in the arts, sciences, and humanities is helping people think in new ways.
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National digital library gains traction
The Digital Public Library of America, with Harvard in its heritage, celebrates its first six months with an idea conference in Boston.
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Libraries coming together
Sarah Thomas, the new vice president of the Harvard Library, will now also oversee the libraries of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The appointment signals a move toward a more unified and coordinated library system.
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Nation & World
The modern opens the past
In the inaugural lecture of a series organized by Harvard’s Digital Futures consortium, data-publishing entrepreneur Eric Kansa lays out a case for archaeology to “get on the map” of disciplines sharing data widely on the Web.
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The pop-up, over-the-top library
Through Dec. 21, the Labrary, a student-designed pop-up space at 92 Mt. Auburn St., shows off projects that imagine the future of libraries.
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Old Japan, online
“Early Photography of Japan,” a virtual collection of more than 2,000 images from three Harvard University libraries, documents the early history of Japanese commercial photography, and reflects the Western image of traditional Japanese culture before modernization.
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Linking libraries, museums, archives
The archivist of the United States joins an interdisciplinary conversation at Harvard about the whys and hows of integrating libraries, archives, and museums.
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Update on the Library transition
Provost Alan Garber shares how a new organizational design and strategic direction, recently recommended by the Library Board, will position the Harvard Library to respond to the evolving expectations of the 21st century scholar.
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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.
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Nation & World
Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 12
At the Oct. 12 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members met with Provost Alan M. Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty. They also discussed the Harvard Library.
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Nation & World
Jan Merrill-Oldham, preservation librarian, dies
Jan Merrill-Oldham, Harvard’s Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian from 1995 to 2010 and the driving force in developing the renowned preservation programs in the Harvard Library, died Oct. 5 at her home in Cambridge.
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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.
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Oscar Handlin, historian, 95
Oscar Handlin, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, died from a heart attack on Sept. 20 at his Cambridge home. He was 95.
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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.
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A provost’s view across a decade
Steven E. Hyman, who is stepping down after leading Harvard’s sweeping expansion into interdisciplinary research, recalls the challenges and changes of his long tenure.
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Saving snapshots of history
Four Russian conservators visit the Weissman Preservation Center for 10 days to learn techniques to assess, treat, and preserve rare photos and other treasures.
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The Weissman Center at work
The Weissman Preservation Center, an arm of Harvard Library that recently hosted a group of Russian conservators for training, celebrated its first decade last year.
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Harvard Library joins Borrow Direct
The Harvard Library has joined the Borrow Direct Partnership, which will enable faculty, staff, and students to search a combined catalog of more than 50 million volumes at nine institutions and request circulating items.
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Library access from afar
Harvard launched the library module of its mobile app, offering access to the world’s largest university research library from virtually anywhere.
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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.
