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Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XX.3 Notes on the Harvard Libraries - Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XX.3 The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Williams, Edwin E. 1972. Notes on the Harvard Libraries - Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XX.3. Harvard Library Bulletin XX (3), July 1972: 337-341. Citable link https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37363993 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA NOTES ON THE HARVARD LIBRARIES RE1'1 REJ\1l:Nl'S Hild a E. Con Ian has retired s Jn t er.library Loan Librarian in the f I ar,,ard Col- lege Li lJrn ry after forty-eight y cars on the staff. 1\1iss Con Ian j oi n ed the Widener Orculation Department h1 l924i subsequently headed the Periodical Room for a nu111bcrof years 1 and had been in charge of i[1ter1ibrary loans since l 960. Helen E. lloney~ Head of the Cata]ogue Dep~rttncnt of Baker J_,ibrary at the Graduate Schoo] of B usin c.ssAd nlin istra tion, has re dred after t\ven t y-d ght years at HntV"ardr ~\1iss I-Ioney C:ltTIC to the vVidcncr Catalogue IJepattrnent in r 944 fro n1 ConncctI cut Uni \'C rsity and ,vent to Il aker Library th c f oUo\\.~ing year~ Helen D. lfTlf/nrd his retired as Curator of the Theatre Collection jn the Harvard CoHege Library, a posirjon she had he]d for t\ve1Ye years. Before con1in g to the I _.ibrary. l\1iss \Vil lard had b ecn associ atc<l \tti th the Fogg Art J\1useun1and ,vith the .i\1uscutn of Fine Arts jn Boston. Orn ER p ERSONNF.L CHANGES H. Gordon. Hecha1111nh~s resigned as As.sodate U nivcrsity Librnrian for Re- .sourcesand Acquisj ti o ns and i\1 cn1 be r of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in order to go to the \ 1 i rgi ni a Polytechnic I nsti tu Le and Sta tc Uni vcrsi ty of Vi r- ginia a r Blacksburg as Assist3 n t Di rector for Te chnica l Scrv j ccs. 1\1Ir. Be chanan c~tnc to the Harvard Libral'y in 1957. As head of the Personnel Office, one of his major con rri bu tions ,v~s d cvd op n1en t of the internship pro gro.ni. Since 1967 he has headed the Departn1cnt of Resources and Acquisitions; he has also be en :H~ti \1 c in Iibra ry a ff =iirs na ti ona.11y, pa rticu !a rl y as a 1ncmbcr of the A meri- can J.. ihrary Association Committee on Accreditation. ]eaune A. Broburg has bcrn appointed C11r~tor of the Farns,vorth and Poetry Rooms jn the Harvard College Library .. She hnd served a-sAssistant Curator since 195 5 under John L. S,;veeney, "\\rho retired i11 t 969., and Professor Robert S. Fitzgerald. Alary van A hshove11Chatfield is no\v Assistant Lihrarian for Technical Ser- \' lees at Ila ke r T.. i bra ry of the Grad u a re Sc boo] of Il u siness Adn1i nistra ti on~ l\1rs. Chatfic]d can1c to the Widener staff as a ref erencc librarian in 1961 and transferred to the reference staff at Baker t\,'O years later. In 1967 she becatne H cad of the Acquisitions De par tn1 en t at Ila ke r and "ra s on leave for 197r-7 2 ,vhile ·completing her ,vork for the i\1.B.A. degree at the Han'c1rd Business SchooL P/Jilip E. Leiubncb bcca1llCAss•smnt University Librarian for Personnel early in 1971. He came to the Departn1cnt of Resources and Acquisitions in the Harvard Co1IcgcLibrary during 1964 and had been Specialist in Book Sc]ection sin cc 1 9 67; during 1 9 70-7 t he ,vas on leave in order to serve as-Assistant L-ibra~ rfa n at Queen Mary Co]lege of the University of London. 3 37 Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XX, Number 3 (July 1972) Harvard Library Bulletin A1argm·etKaren Nelson, l\1r~ Leinbachis predecessor as Assistant Gniversity Librarian for Person n cI., resigned in January· 19 7:2 , f ollo,vj i1g l1cr 111arriage to Professor Franldin \:Varren i\1cFnrlan of the Business School. l\.itissNelson came to the Library staff in 1962.and con1pictcd -an internship in 1966; she had been associated ,,,frh the Personnel Office for 1norc than eight years. ]enune T ..l'lev..,.liu succeeds J,1iss ,viJlard as Curator of the Theatre Collection in rhc Harvard Col1ege Library., i\1jss NcYvlin had taug-ht at \ 1i]lanova~ St. John's Univcrsjryi and the City University of Ne,,, \' ork before she came to IrJ:-arvardin 1968 as Assistant Curator of the 'f'he~tre Co1lection. She earned a doctora tc f r<n11the Cit)r University of N c,v York in J 9 7 1 ; her dissertation ,vas on Troilus find Crcssida,,vh.ich ,va~ also the subject of an article she contributed to the October 1969 issue of the HARVARD LrnRARY IluLT~ETlN. Edwnrd J. Peterson succeeds i\1:iss Con]an as Inter]ibrary Loan 1...ihrarjan; 11ccarnc to Harvard in 1967 as Ad111iniscrativcA~sistnnt for Cataloguing. lf'ilbur H. T'urk is no,v I,Jcad of the Catalogue and Data Procc.ssing l)epnrt- 1ncnt of Baker Library at the Graduate School of Busin e.5SAdministration.· i\1r. Turk can1c to Harvard in 1970 as Head of Data Processing in the n~ker Library .. THE JHo)ilROE C. GU"i'l'r.'IA~ L1BRA.RY-RESE.ARCH CENTER UNTJL 7 February 1972, ,vhcn the J\ilonroc C. Gutman Library-Rcscrirch Center ,vas open cd, the Library· of th c (.;r~ d 11n te Schoo 1 of Education had n c,rcr occupied a building dcs~gnedfor it. :t\lo"1 i af tcr 5 2 yc"rs in itnprovjsed accom- modations-, it is instal1cd in a very attractive building on Appian ,vayI adjacent to Larsen and LongfelJo,v I~JaHs.'\,l'ith 93 llOO square feet of floor space, the Gutman building comprjses .five levc1s, the first four for the Library and the fifth for faculty office and research faci]ities. The gfoss and sandbfasted concrete building opened ·\1dthmore than coo1000 volumes asscn1bl cd f ron1 ha if a. dozen seattered lo ca.ti on s. Ano th er 2 5,ooo vol- un1cs \,·ill be transferred fron1 \Vidcner Library oYer the next ns;.•oyears. The Gu tnrn.n Library a1 so provides sevcra l spcci al co Ucccion s and servicesI includj ng a collection of textbooks from the eighteen.th through the ca.r]y t,,icnticth cen- tury; an I nstruc ti onal R c.so1irces co] lecti on of tea.ching nia.tcria ls; a.n Urban Information Collection on urb:in nnd 1ninority educatiOnj a file of so1ne 4iooo educ:itional tests; n 1'1edia Division ,vith cquipn1cnt and fud]ities for filn1i audio- tape, yj d eotape, and rel 9!t c-dscrv ices; nnd some 60, ooo docu n1en t5, on n1i cro fie h c fro1n the Educational R.-esources Inf onn-ation Center (ER-IC). Also avriilable ,vHl be n1icrofichc and n1icrofi]n1 readers and a coin-operated reader-printer. A recent gift of .,ome Joo motion picture .fihns h!s grc:ltly exp~nded the Library's fiJm ho1dingsa The hu iJding pro v·jdes a large number of study an<l tea ch1 n g spa ccs. Th e.se include private study cubicles, prin1 aril y for a dvnnced graduate stud en ts; u n- as..,ign cd study carre]s; lockers for storage of person-al belongings; and more than 200 other infor111a] seating and reader spaces." In addition 1• the office floor pro,ddes more than 50 offices for faculty· 1nen1bers·and researchers, along vdth sen1inar, conf erencei atid secretarial space. Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XX, Number 3 (July 1972) Notes 011 t!Je Harvard Libraries 3 39 The building is nan1ed for ~1onroc C. Gunnan of the Harvard class of 1905,. a N e1v York invcst1nen t hanker and philan th ropj st ,v ho h-as b ccn a. generous supporter of Harvard for many years. Besides his gifts to the Gutman Library~ his bcnefacdons include the j\1onroe C~ Gutrnan National Scholarships and the Gutman Professorship of Latin-American Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Scicnces 1 and support for research on social sb.ldics curriculan1 at the Graduate School of f,ducation. The Schoo] also received a major Federal construction grant under Title II of the Higher Education Facilities Act. The project, ,vhich cost $6,100,oooi incl11ded the moving and restoration of Read nnd Nichols Housesl t,vo historic frame buildings on the site, for use by the School. Benjarnin Thompson and Associ-arcsof Cambridge ,vcrc the archi- tecrn~ 1 ..hc contract for the Gutman building ,,.·as a-\vardcd in February J970 to the Jackson Const ruction Con1 pan y of Need han1., n nd in cl uded a ssu ra nccs of equal en1p]oyn1cnt opportunities for black and other rnh1ority "Torkers on all phases of tllc project.
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