Libraries
Prepaid Crimson Cash Cards
A new vending machine in the lobby of Lamont will provide anyone who experiences problems adding value to a Crimson Cash account with prepaid Crimson Cash cards.
HCL Ups Sustainable Initiatives
In an effort to bolster sustainability efforts and cut energy costs, the Harvard College Library system has installed occupancy sensors and reduced lighting use in campus libraries.
Provost Addresses Library Changes
University Provost Steven E. Hyman sought to reassure faculty members yesterday that the newly appointed committee for library changes would not overstep its bounds.
FAS To Lift Salary Freeze
In what may be an early sign that the budget is recovering, Faculty of Arts and Science Dean Michael D. Smith announced yesterday that he would end the salary freezes placed on faculty and staff last December.
Hammonds Brings Burritos to Lamont
As a treat for studying hard, Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds surprised students at Lamont with free drinks and burritos from Felipe's.
Faculty Calls For Library Funding
With budget cuts looming over Harvard’s numerous libraries, more than a hundred faculty members signed off on an impassioned letter calling on top University administrators to increase funding for library acquisitions.
Update on That Raining Inside Sitch
If you thought that Widener Library was a place where your soul could go to die, and your body could ...
Where not to study...
FlyBy went to try to knock a paper out of the way in the 3rd Floor Widener Reading Room when ...
O_O VOID: 11/25/09
The VOID is that empty time between 5am and 8am every night where there’s no one on gchat, no sound ...
Library Report Irks Humanities Academics
After the recent release of the University’s Library Task Force Report, some humanities professors and graduate students have expressed concern over the document’s suggestion that Harvard's library system may need to limit future expansion.
Panel Discusses Online Education
Teachers should emphasize critical thinking among their students as education moves increasingly online, a four-person panel said yesterday at Lowell Lecture Hall.
Library System May See Changes
Harvard University’s “labyrinthine” library system should be drastically restructured in the next few years, according to the Task Force on University Libraries’ report released yesterday.
The Garden Street Shuttle Stop
In a morbid move by the shuttle system, the Garden Street stop was chosen to be right between the Old Burying Ground and the shadowy Cambridge Commons and is very far from anywhere anybody is going.
Harvard College Library, China Form Pact
The Harvard-Yenching Library—the largest university library for East Asian research in the Western World—signed an agreement on Friday with the ...
Library Acquires Updike Collection
Harvard’s Houghton Library announced earlier this week that it will acquire the John Updike Archive—an extensive collection of Updike’s original ...
Harvard Review moves to JSTOR
Students at Harvard and around the world searching for hard-to-find works by such literary luminaries as Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol ...
Dunster House Masters Defend Barring Library Books
Amid growing controversy surrounding the decision to place brass bars in front of the books in the Dunster House library, ...