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Harvard residence hall restricts access to books in library
Sep 30, 2009 11:43 AM
From The Boston Globe: Students who have long cherished the
small library inside Dunster House, Harvard University’s oldest residence hall,
discovered a new feature there this week: two brass bars stretching across nearly every shelf, making the books impossible to peruse.
The
unannounced change - in effect making the library into a kind of museum
of hardbacks - astonished those who revere the musty collection.
Dunster officials say the bars are needed as a temporary way to protect
the
books - some of them highly valuable volumes or irreplaceable first
editions signed by authors.
