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A renovated Woodberry Poetry Room

This week the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room reopened after a summerlong renovation, reuniting scholars, poets, and poetry lovers with an unprecedented collection of books, pamphlets, magazines,...

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Synchronized effort rescues collection

Heavy rain Saturday night (March 8) caused a large drainpipe to rupture in Pusey Library. More than 500 gallons of water poured into the Harvard Theatre Collection stacks and seeped through the floor,...

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Harvard College Library is going green

The changes may not be immediately evident, but little by little, Harvard College Library (HCL) has been “going green” for years, even before the University’s newest commitment to sustainable...

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Woodberry curator named Bynner Fellow

Woodberry Poetry Room Curator Christina Davis has been awarded one of two 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowships by Poet Laureate Kay Ryan. Davis and the other recipient, Mary Szybist, from Portland, Ore.,...

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Family of ‘Doc Burr’ donates ‘treasure trove of American cinema’ to HFA

It began as a childhood hobby, but for Howard Burr, collecting films became a lifelong passion. A dentist by trade, Burr amassed a collection that would make most cinephiles envious: nearly 3,000...

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Sema Vakf Collection of Turkish Classical Music now available at Loeb Music...

Shortly after the creation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the first Turkish president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, began an effort to break with the nation’s past Ottoman history. One of the changes...

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Settling scores

When Harvard acquired the archives of conductor Sir Georg Solti in May, the Loeb Music Library had many reasons to celebrate. Solti, a Hungarian best known for conducting the Chicago Symphony...

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Reality, fiction in Italy’s empire

In 1907, photographer Marcello Fabritti arrived at the docks in Genoa to board the steamship Staffetta, bound for Africa. The ship traveled to Port Said, Egypt, and then across the Red Sea, and along...

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The virtual William James

Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and...

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Salvaged papers shed light on Blanchot

As a novelist, literary theorist, journalist and philosopher, Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) had a profound impact on the thinking of dozens of philosophers, novelists, and writers. Until recently,...

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Library a hit at Dudley Fest

Whether graduate students need research guidance, help locating and accessing resources online, materials for teaching classes, or even library materials scanned and delivered to them electronically,...

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Visiting scholar finds collections and service in Middle Eastern Division

While preparing his thesis on the rise of nationalist thinking among a rarely studied Middle Eastern Christian minority group who speak Syriac as a common language, Raid Gharib, a Ph.D. candidate at...

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A Hollywood icon at Houghton

Houghton Library Manuscript Cataloger Michael Austin (left) holds the Academy Award presented to Johnny Green, Class of 1928, for his original composition The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture, a subject...

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Letters shed light on missionary life

In 1839, Hannah Whitcomb arrived in Tuscarora Village, a small Native American community near Niagara Falls, New York to begin her work as missionary to the Tuscarora Indians. For the next two decades,...

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Water damage leads to revelation

While it could never be considered a good thing when rare library materials suffer water damage, in the case of nearly a dozen French ballet drawings from the early 17th century, it proved to be...

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Kristin Stoklosa receives Ishimoto Award

Kristin Stoklosa, e-resources manager and e-resources coordinator for the sciences, has been named this year’s recipient of the 2010 Carol Ishimoto Award for Distinguished Service in the Harvard...

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Harvard-Yenching’s 2010 holiday cards now available

Each year since 1998, Harvard-Yenching Library has offered a series of holiday and note cards featuring images from interesting pieces in their collections. For 2010, Kuniko McVey, Librarian for the...

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Larsen Librarian Nancy Cline to retire

Nancy M. Cline, the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College for more than 15 years, will retire at the end of the academic year. In an announcement to faculty, Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty...

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Fliss selected 2011-12 ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow

Susan Fliss, associate librarian of Harvard College for research, teaching, and learning, has been selected by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as one of 25 individuals to participate in the...

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Renovation reuses/recycles 96%

When work began on the lower level of 625 Mass. Ave., the challenge wasn’t simply to renovate a space that had once been library stacks into space for Harvard College Library Technical Services (HCLTS)...

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Technology speeds audio preservation

Students, faculty, and researchers can now access audio materials faster than ever before, and audio engineers working in Loeb Music Library’s Audio Preservation Studio (APS) are enjoying streamlined...

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Conservation work saves Blackwood Films

Film conservators at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) and Weissman Preservation Center recently completed a massive effort to slow or stop damage to thousands of hours of film – including hundreds of...

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We did it!

As of Jan. 1, 2011, all workspaces in buildings managed by Harvard College Library Operations have achieved at least Green Leaf One certification from the University’s Office of Sustainability (OFS)....

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Tuned-up tool for music scholars

For music scholars conducting research online, there is a dizzying array of resources that are literally at their fingertips. The challenge is in determining which to use. To help make sense of the...

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At the midterm the system gets an “A”

Last fall, a new special collections request system was introduced to Harvard College Library (HCL) with lofty goals and the promise of creating a better experience for both users and libraries.  With...

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Music Treasures Consortium launched

The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University, in collaboration with the Julliard School and the Library of Congress, recently launched the Music Treasures Consortium, a website that provides a...

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Emily Dickinson and the sublime: A talk by Professor Helen Vendler

The conventional definition of the sublime – that which is too large and overwhelming to be accommodated within our restricted consciousness – is one that Emily Dickinson fiercely defied. In...

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Solti archive goes to Harvard’s Loeb Music Library

The archive of Sir Georg Solti, a body of work of significance to musical scholars and musicians worldwide, has come to Harvard’s Loeb Music Library, the University announced today.  The collection...

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Nancy Cline retires to accolades

When she retires from her post as the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College next month, efforts to sum up the career of Nancy Cline will invariably point to the massive, multi-year renovation of...

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QR codes reveal hidden messages in maps

Though it explores the myriad techniques – from cartouches to vignettes, figural borders, and frontispieces – that cartographers have employed for centuries to encode messages into maps, “Going for...

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Unique Bradstreet manuscript preserved

For students and scholars studying early American literature, Anne Bradstreet, is a hugely important figure, considered by many to be the first American poet, and the first woman to publish a book in...

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Six more HCL units go green

Following last year’s successful effort to achieve, at minimum, Green Leaf One certification for all staff workspaces in Widener, Houghton, Lamont, Pusey, and Tozzer libraries, six additional Harvard...

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A storied visit: Edmund Morris speaks at Houghton Library

During the historic “Blizzard of 1978,” Edmund Morris forced open the door of his snowed-in Cambridge hotel and made his way across the quieted Harvard Yard to Widener Library to continue his research...

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Illuminating the Dark Ages: NEH grant will help display and digitize...

If a single illuminated manuscript can give a glimpse of the art, literature, religion and history of Western culture during the Middle Ages, imagine what nearly 4,000 – the number of such manuscripts...

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