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Harvard's Islamic Heritage Project Is Now Online
December 18, 2009
Through a new collaboration among Islamic-studies scholars, librarians, and curators, Harvard University has cataloged, conserved, and digitized Islamic manuscripts, maps, and published texts from its renowned library and museum collections. The result is a new online collection comprising more than 145,000 digital pages available to Internet users everywhere. Entitled the Islamic Heritage Project, or IHP, the collection is made possible with generous support from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal.
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British Library's Helen Shenton Is HUL's New Deputy Director
December 11, 2009
Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, has appointed Helen Shenton, the head of collection care for the British Library, as the deputy director of the Harvard University Library. "This is a vital appointment made at a crucial time in the history of the Harvard Libraries," Darnton says.
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Digitizing Dunster
November 9, 2009
In celebration of his 400th year, the papers of Harvard's first president are now online.
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A Compact for Open-Access Publication
September 14, 2009
Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, and the University of California at Berkeley announce their joint support for open-access publishing. Additional research institutions are invited to join the five-member compact.
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HOPE Makes It Work at Harvard
September 14, 2009
The Office for Scholarly Communication is managing Harvard's participation in the Open-Access Compact through the Harvard Open-Access Publication Equity (HOPE) Fund.
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Harvard's DASH for Open Access
September 1, 2009
"DASH is meant to promote openness in general," stated Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library. "It will make the current scholarship of Harvard's faculty freely available everywhere in the world, just as the digitization of the books in Harvard's library will make learning accumulated since 1638 accessible worldwide. Taken together, these and other projects represent a commitment by Harvard to share its intellectual wealth."
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Open Collections Program Launches Expeditions and Discoveries
May 1, 2009
Through the new collection, Internet users can find thousands of maps, photographs, and published materials, along with field notes, letters, and unique manuscript materials on sponsored exploration and related scientific discoveries between 1626 and 1953.
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Harvard Libraries Launch a New HOLLIS
April 9, 2009
HOLLIS now offers users a simple, intuitive interface for discovering library resources in significant new ways. The new HOLLIS, a "discovery environment" and not just a catalog, reflects a new generation of creative thinking about searching on the web as it differs from searches in traditional library catalogs.
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Arcadia Gives $5 Million to Support Core Collections, Services in the Harvard Libraries
April 6, 2009
Britain's Arcadia Fund has awarded $5 million to the Harvard University Library. Arcadia's five-year grant will provide flexible support for the Library's core functions: acquisitions, access, preservation, and dissemination.
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Enhancing Harvard's Geospatial Library
March 13, 2009
Renewed and relaunched, the new HGL offers a rewarding and highly intuitive user experience.
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HUL Awards EPDOP Support to HCL's William Stoneman
August 15, 2008
Dr. William Stoneman, the Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, has been chosen to receive the University Library's Extended Professional Development Opportunity Program (EPDOP) award for 2008.
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Stuart M. Shieber to Lead Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication
May 22, 2008
Stuart M. Shieber '81, Harvard's James O. Welch, Jr., and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, will serve as director of the University's new Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC). Harvard University Provost Steven E. Hyman made the appointment, which he announced today with Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library (HUL).
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Online Now: Google Book Search for Harvard
March 7, 2008
Following an extended collaboration between the Harvard University Library (HUL) and Google, a Harvard-customized version of Google Book Search (GBS) is now online. This new version of GBS offers users the option to search the full text of all books available in Google Book Search—whether contributed by Harvard, another library, or the publisher.
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