Thoughts after the Harvard Libraries Twitter Panic ↘

withawonder:

Maybe the Twitterverse overreacted to the town hall meetings concerning the next step in the Harvard restructuring project. […]

I’m an unpaid intern at Harvard and have already started hearing about this mess.  In the fall I attended an event on the 21st-Century Library at Harvard, where the first rumblings of this plan came to light.  This process seems to be a mess and I am really upset that even an institution as wealthy as Harvard is cutting back positions.  Maybe Harvard should have thought about restructuring back when the economy was going better, since it has 73 (YES SEVENTY-THREE) libraries and has needed to reorganize efficiently for a long time.

Posted 3 months ago with ❤ 33 notes Tagged : #harvard#libraries#budget cuts
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    as someone watching her bosses sit and wait for weeks for even the slightest scrap of information worth anything, i can...
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    I’m an unpaid intern at Harvard and have already started hearing about this mess. In the fall I attended an event on the...
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    I would add that Preservation, Access Services, Technical Services, and Financial Services are probably about 3/4 of the...
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