Tag: Helen Shenton

  • Nation & World

    Library in transition

    A new Harvard Library portal opens the window on a library reorganization that preserves the print past and embraces the digital future.

    6 minutes
  • 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.

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  • Nation & World

    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.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    2 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

    NYPL’s Matthew J. Sheehy will lead Harvard Depository

    Matthew J. Sheehy, acting director for reference and research services at the New York Public Library, has been named to lead the Harvard Depository.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    HUL names deputy director

    Helen Shenton, the head of collection care for the British Library, has been appointed deputy director of the Harvard University Library.

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