This is for my blogging friend Vernica and just because I think it’s interesting. The Blue Hill Public Library in Maine recently returned a book to Harvard’s Lamont Library that was due on June 13, 1952, beating the record held by a book due in 1967. (The article doesn’t say when the 1967 book was [...]
There has been much discussion about the looting and destruction of Iraq’s cultural treasures, be they museum antiquities or library materials. Here’s an article from the May 22 Harvard University Gazette about some ways Harvard’s faculty and staff are contributing to the international efforts to recover or replace these materials. There’s also some mention of [...]
I don’t know how this happened, exactly, but apparently if you search on the word “blog” in Harvard’s search engine, my blog is all over the first page of results. They’re old results, though, because I changed the name of my blog a few days ago and the listing is still under the old name. [...]