Library Lab To Support Student and Faculty Projects

With the goal of empowering library patrons to create “the information society of the future,” the University Library Council recently approved a new set of financial and infrastructural resources dubbed the Harvard Library Lab to support entrepreneurial projects that improve library functions.

HKS Library Filters Books, Creates Space

Recently, the Harvard Kennedy School administration became increasingly concerned regarding the amount of study space available to its students.

Harvard Discusses Google Book Project Lawsuit

Harvard faculty recently discussed its current stance against allowing Google Books to scan the University’s vast collection of copyrighted material.

Library Reform Sees Slow Progress

The Library Implementation Group, charged this fall with making concrete changes to the University library system by the winter of 2010, will instead generate another, more specific round of proposals at the end of its one-year tenure.

No Time for the Gym? Work Out in the Library!

With reading period almost done and finals looming, Lamonsters and Cabot-Dwellers alike are starting to feel the weight of late-nights ...

PRIZE COLLECTIONS

The winners of the Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art were recognized yesterday with a ceremony in Houghton Library. Student collections had to exhibit exemplary “breadth, coherence, and imagination.”

Nyhen declined to have his picture taken.

Harvard and MIT Share Libraries

Harvard and MIT have opened large parts of their library collections to undergraduates at both schools in a new partnership ...

A Depository staff member works on sorting books to be sent out to Harvard's various libraries.

With shelf space running dry in Cambridge, the Depository is a critical component of Harvard’s vision of the modern library, whose holdings are first found online rather than on the shelves themselves.

In order to retrieve books requested by the libraries, Depository staff must use a motorized lift to access the 30-foot shelves.

All the books in the Depository are stored in rows of 30-foot high shelves in large module rooms. The modules are climate controlled to optimize the longevity of the books.

In the sorting office of the Depository, all the incoming and outgoing books are grouped by size in order to make the most efficient use of space.

The Harvard Depository: Beyond the Stacks

Most of Harvard's immense library holdings are stored off-campus in a complex, warehouse-like facility called the Depository. Much of the work done at the Depository concerns proper book storage and the transport of material to and from Harvard's numerous libraries.

The Depository is currently working with JSTOR, an organization that digitally archives scholarly articles, to create hard copy versions of their electronic holdings.

Beyond The Stacks

With shelf space running dry in Cambridge, the Harvard Depository is a critical component of the University's vision of the modern library, whose holdings are first found online rather than on the shelves themselves.

Lamont Opens New Multimedia Lab

Lamont Library celebrated yesterday the establishment of its new multimedia lab, which provides undergraduates with a central location to edit media projects.

Today in Photos (2/25/2010)

Photos for the February 25, 2010 print edition of The Harvard Crimson.

Machines in the Museum

Ray Williams of the Harvard Art Museum and Brown University Professor Steven Lubar discuss the influence of industrialization on artists in the 20th century.

Library Group Represents Faculty

Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger will chair a committee to represent faculty interests in the ongoing process to reform the library system.

Today in Photos (1/26/2010)

Photos printed in Jan. 26, 2010 issue of The Crimson.