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YEAR 2008 STORIES
03/18/08 Harvard Review Contributors Receive Literary Honors
03/18/08 Fine Arts Library Acquires Tassel Collection of Historical Photos
03/13/08 Marty Schreiner Publishes New Compositions
03/12/08 Rapid Response Saves Rare Library Collections
03/07/08 Junior Parents Gather at Houghton Library for Reception
03/06/08 Susan Lee Retires
02/21/08 HCL Hosts Graduate Student Reception
02/20/08 Matz and McKeigue Selected for ACRL’s Intentional Teacher Program
02/15/08 Boston Maps Designed by HCL Map Collection Grace Freedom Trail
02/06/08 Art of Lionel Reiss Subject of New Harvard Catalog
01/09/08 Loeb Music Co-Authors Groundbreaking Report on Audio Preservation

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YEAR 2007 STORIES
11/29/07 Ishimoto Award Goes to HCL Macro Development and Distribution Working Group
11/16/07 Harvard-Yenching Holiday Cards Available
11/16/07 Excellence in Service Award Recipients Recognized
10/30/07 Freshman Parents, Librarians Meet at Lamont
10/30/07 Employees Honored for Twenty-Five Years of Service
10/25/07 Emilyn Brown Selected as Administrative Fellow
10/25/07 Joint Council Hosts Open Forum
09/19/07 Harvard-Yenching Lends Maps to Smithsonian
09/17/07 Lamont Welcomes Freshmen with Annual Open House
09/12/07 The Many Roles of the Phillips Reading Room
09/06/07 Harvard Map Collection Digitizes Historic Cambridge and Boston Atlases
08/31/07 Decorated Papers Exhibition Opens at Houghton
08/14/07 Susan Fliss Joins HCL as Associate Librarian for Research and Instruction
08/06/07 High School Students Spend Summer at HCL
07/02/07 Harvard Theatre Collection Recognized by Boston Theatre Critics Association
06/29/07 American Institute of Graphic Arts Recognizes Harvard Review for Cover Design
06/20/07 Voogd Publishes Maynard, Massachusetts: A House in the Village
06/19/07 American Institute of Graphic Arts Recognizes Dickinson Herbarium
06/01/07 Houghton Library Offers New Exhibition of Gore Vidal Papers
05/11/07 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting Winner Announced
04/27/07 Portrait of David L. Evans Unveiled at Lamont
04/27/07 Philip Hofer Prize for Art and Book Collecting Winners Announced
04/05/07 HCL Imaging Services Launches Web-Based Credit Card Payment System
04/05/07 Harvard-Yenching and Fung Host Colleagues from AAS/CEAL Conference
04/05/07 What's Keeping HCL Busy?
03/23/07 SSP and Lamont Staff Prepare for a Move
03/05/07 Junior Parents Gather at Houghton Library for Reception
03/01/07 Tracing Group Tracks Down Widener’s Lost Books
02/23/07 Harvard Grad Presents Film Debut at Harvard Film Archive
02/09/07 Sennett Adapts Novel for the Stage — Musical Premieres February 9 & 10
01/23/07 Littauer Foundation Awards Harvard’s Judaica Division Million Dollar Grant

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YEAR 2006 STORIES
12/21/06 Lamont Librarians Lead RefWorks Workshops
12/15/06 Harvard Film Archive's Steffen Pierce to Debut Feature Film Saturday
12/15/06 Poetry Room Collaboration Garners Grammy Nomination
12/14/06 Graham Appointed Associate for Administrative Services for Harvard College Library
12/12/06 James Lin Receives Sixteenth Annual Ishimoto Award
12/06/06 Ukrainian Map Collection Arrives at Harvard
12/04/06 Harvard-Yenching's 2006 Holiday Greeting Cards Available
11/16/06 Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium Published
11/14/06 Harvard Review Story & Poem Selected for Best American Series, Covers for Print Magazine
11/07/06 Daryl Boone Selected as a Harvard Residential Administrative Fellow for 2006-2007
11/03/06 Freshman Parents Gather at Lamont Library for Reception
10/19/06 Lamont Library Cafe Opens
10/12/06 Ordway Collection Reflects Life Working Toward Space Exploration
10/05/06 Tozzer Library Celebrates Quarter-Millionth Volume With Exhibition
09/29/06 Loeb Music Celebrates 50th Anniversary
09/28/06 Images of Congo: The Art and Ethnography of Anne Eisner Putnam, 1946-1958 Exhibition Opens October 2
09/19/06 Lamont Welcomes Freshmen with Annual Open House
09/15/06 Garver Publishes Book of Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts
08/18/06 HCL Librarians Volunteer in New Orleans
08/11/06 High School Students Spend Summer at HCL
06/20/06 Administrative Fellow Claudia Hill Concludes Her Year at HCL
06/01/06 Leahy Takes Schlesinger Position
05/30/06 Benjamin Franklin: A How-To Guide Explores Franklin’s "How-To" Legacy, Celebrates 300th Anniversary of Founder’s Birth
05/17/06 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting Winners Announced
04/27/06 Philip Hofer Prize for Art and Book Collecting Winners Announced
02/16/06 Freshmen Work Hands-On with Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Meld Histories of Art, Reading, Prayer into Houghton Exhibition
02/14/06 Cline Named Hugh Atkinson Award Winner
02/02/06 HCL Partners with HUCTW in High School Intern Program

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YEAR 2005 STORIES
12/16/05 Lum, Sylvester Key in Publication of Lost Photos
12/16/05 Librarians Travel to China for Dedication
12/13/05 HCL Names 2005 Excellence in Service Award Recipients
12/06/05 Houghton's Catalog of Italian Ballet Released
12/01/05 Harvard-Yenching's 2005 Holiday Greeting Cards Available
11/30/05 Bonnie Burns Receives Fifteenth Annual Ishimoto Award
11/15/05 HCL Hosts Library Open Houses
11/08/05 Harvard College Library Hosts MLS Students in ARL Initiative
11/01/05 Freshman Parents Gather at Lamont Library for Reception
10/26/05 Kosovo Librarians Train at Harvard College Library
10/21/05 Poetry Room Collection is Mother Lode for NPR
09/16/05 Lamont Library Holds Annual Freshman Open House
09/09/05 Special Collections Conservators Stabilize 1,500 East Asian Rubbings for Digitization
07/21/05 Intern Has Family Ties to Hyde Collection of Samuel Johnson
06/01/05 HCL Pilots Self Service Scanners
05/25/05 Harvard Review Short Story Chosen for Best American Series
05/06/05 Widener Library's Reference Services Room Endowed
04/21/05 Widener Library Receives 2005 ALA Library Building Award
04/18/05 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting Winners Announced
04/12/05 Houghton Library Exhibits Miniature Books
04/11/05 Edison and Newman Room Re-Opens at Houghton Library
02/24/05 Loeb Music Library and Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music Awarded NEH Grant
02/15/05 Charles Berlin Publishes Harvard Judaica
01/24/05 Ticknor Society Meeting Featuring Matthew Battles Cancelled
01/03/05 A Gift for Tozzer
01/03/05 Harvard Review Nominated for Utne Award for Third Year

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YEAR 2004 STORIES
11/16/04 Houghton Manuscript Department Reaches Milestone - 1500 Finding Aids Accessible
11/16/04 Battles Pens Widener Biography, Harvard Book Store Reading November 17
10/07/04 Jeffrey Horrell to Head Dartmouth Library System
09/30/04 Harvard Community Invited to Widener Rededication October 1
07/07/04 Librarian from Sri Lanka to Harvard
05/14/04 Harvard Review Essay Chosen for Best American Series, Spring Issue Released
05/07/04 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting Winners Announced
05/06/04 Bringing Japan to Boston at Tozzer Library
05/04/04 Elegant, Yet Functional... Widener Second Floor Opens
04/07/04 Petrarch and Bridging Gaps, Two New Exhibitions, Open at Houghton
03/18/04 John Bidwell Presents Hofer Lecture On the History of the Papermaking Machine
03/12/04 Extended Loan Period Pilot for G1 - G3 Grad Students Launched at Widener Library
03/11/04 Poetry Room Holds Reading of Pablo Neruda Poems
03/09/04 Jan Merrill-Oldham Receives ALCTS 2004 Preservation Award  
03/01/04 One of World's Finest Collections of 18th Century English Literature Goes to Harvard's Houghton Library
02/18/04 Tribute to George Starbuck at Woodberry Poetry Room
02/18/04 Town to City to Mega-metropolis: Exhibit Maps Growth of London
02/12/04 Exhibition Celebrates Centennial of Pablo Neruda’s Birth
02/05/04 Exhibition at Cabot Explores Native American Craftsmanship and Culture  
01/29/04 Formative Years of Literary Icons Revealed in Harvard Poets: 1900-1945
01/27/04 Computer Workstations at Loeb Music Tailored for Music Scholars
01/22/04 Harvard Library Staff Contribute 33 Chapters to Magazines for Libraries
01/16/04 Res Gestae: Libri Manent; A Curator’s Choice on Display at Houghton Library
01/13/04 From Vellum to Pixels: David Remington Offers Expertise in Project to Digitize Codex Sinaiticus

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YEAR 2003 STORIES
12/19/03 Thirteenth Annual Ishimoto Award Goes to Diane Cox and Ray Lum
12/15/03 Houghton Offers New Greeting Cards in Time for Holidays
12/15/03 Harvard-Yenching Library's 2003 Holiday Greeting Cards Now Available
11/14/03 Harvard Review Fall 2003 Issue on Stands Now
11/14/03 Annual Competition for Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize Underway  
11/07/03 Collections Salvage Session Trains Staff to Respond to Wet Book Emergency
10/29/03 Harvard-Yenching 75th Anniversary Celebrated with Conference
10/28/03 Widener Renovation Team Garners Build Massachusetts Award
10/14/03 Pao-liang Chu Connects Author with Alias in Twentieth-Century Chinese Authors and Their Pen Names
09/30/03 Sylvester and Pozeilov Capture Memorial Hall Stained Glass
09/30/03 Women in Science Exhibition Open at Cabot
09/26/03 Curtain Opens on King's Theatre Exhibition
09/22/03 Pigskin Library on Display: Roosevelt Exhibition Opens
09/18/03 HCL Goes Wireless
09/08/03 Exhibition Highlights Du Bois/Houghton Collaboration
09/08/03 Conservation Services, Harvard-Yenching, and Tozzer Collaborate in Conservation Effort
08/26/03 HCL to Eliminate Duplicate Journal Titles
07/15/03 The Library: Battles' Muse, Resource, and Topic
07/15/03 Numeric Data Services Finds Dataquest Benefits Students and Staff
07/15/03 Hopkins Helps PBS' History Detectives Solve Anthropology Mystery
06/20/03 Houghton Hits 1,000 Finding Aids 
06/09/03 Government Documents Hosts Serial Set Inventories on Web Site
06/06/03 Map Exhibition Explores World History and Displays Harvard Treasures
06/03/03 Widener Library Renovation Team Receives 3rd Annual SMPS Collaboration Award
06/03/03 Du Bois Letters Come to Harvard
05/16/03 Overdue Since '52
05/07/03 In Her Own Hand, Exhibition Opens at Loeb Music Library
04/22/03 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting Winners Announced
04/18/03 Harvard Review Emerges on Literary Scene: Essay and Story Chosen for Best American Series
04/18/03 Reference on the Road: A Roving Librarian in Loker Commons Brings Library Services to Students
04/16/03 Photo Gallery: Widener First Floor and Main Entrance Reopen
04/04/03 Emerson Impression Remains Clear at Harvard (Harvard Gazette)
04/04/03 Randolph Caldecott Exhibit Opens at Houghton
04/04/03 Alphabetics on Display at Houghton
03/27/03 Ernest Dudley Chase’s Pictorial Maps on Display
03/14/03 Exhibition Documents Life of Influential Theatrical Designer, Edward Gordon Craig
03/05/03 Don Share is Finalist for L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award
03/05/03 Houghton Hosts Spring Lectures
02/06/03 Library of Congress Selects Harvard Vocarium for National Recording Registry 
01/27/03 These Shoes Were Made for ... Walking? Explores Foot Fashions Across Cultures and Ages 
01/09/03 Jorge Luis Borges, Houghton Exhibition Explores his Life and Literature 

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YEAR 2002 STORIES
12/16/02 Cline, Merrill-Oldham Papers Featured in Library of Congress' To Preserve and Protect
12/16/02 Houghton Offers New Holiday Greeting Cards
12/16/02 Harvard-Yenching Library's 2002 Holiday Greeting Cards Now Available
11/20/02 Carolann Buff Balances Life at Loeb Music with Music Career
11/20/02 Don Share Publishes Book of Poetry, Explores World of Union
11/07/02 Harvard Libraries Collaborate to Create Treasure Filled Exhibit
10/30/02 What to Give a 400-Year-Old
10/04/02 Widener Ground Floor Reopens
09/26/02 HCL Instructional Services Reaches Out to Graduate Students through Orientation Activities
09/19/02 Widener Stacks Division Completes the Movement of Millions of Volumes – Not an Easy Trick
09/19/02 Donna Koepp Appointed to The National Map Review Committee
09/19/02 HCL Welcomes Freshman with Lamont Open House and Libraries Treasures Tour
09/06/02 Thackeray's Gift to Annie Fields Comes to Houghton
08/21/02 Periodicals Reading Room and Stacks Closed for Re-flooring
08/01/02 Fine Arts Library, OIS Partner on Visual Resource Catalog
07/22/02 Dan Hazen Appointed Visiting Program Officer for Global Resources Program
05/20/02 Philip Hofer Prize for Art and Book Collecting Winners Announced
05/16/02 The New Online HOLLIS Catalog: Features Benefit Students, Faculty, Staff
05/14/02 Winners Announced for Visiting Committee Book Collecting Prize
05/06/02 Houghton's Dennis Marnon Receives the Bryant Fellowship for 2001-2002
05/03/02 Reorganization of Stacks Materials Continues During Summer
05/01/02 Widener Serial Records Perseveres, Completes Publication Pattern Project
05/01/02 Hilles Hosts Macbeth
04/25/02 Robert Dennis Featured on Met Opera Broadcast Quiz
04/10/02 Michael Olson Supports Cancer Research by Running Boston Marathon
04/05/02 Harvard Fine Arts Library Acquires Josephine Powell's Archive of Documentary Photography
03/26/02 Theatre Collection Manuscripts and Prompt Books Featured in Exhibition at the Grolier Club
03/07/02 Librarians Explore the Transformation of Scholarly Communication
03/04/02 Student Employees Play Vital Role in HCL
02/13/02 Harvard Acquires Gore Vidal Papers
02/08/02 Houghton Library Offers Scholars the Rare Opportunity to Examine Rare Materials
02/08/02 Exhibition Highlights Milestones of Environmental Movement
02/07/02 New Widener Kiosks Communicate Timely Renovation Information
01/30/02 Barbara Burg Coauthors Guide to African American and African Primary Sources at Harvard University
01/16/02 Widener Conservation Division Disperses Throughout HCL
01/16/02 HCL Facilities Management Accomplishes Tons (and Gallons) of Work
01/09/02 Hellman and Anderson Teach Conservation in Cuba
01/08/02 Harvard-Yenching Library Hosts Visiting Scholars Cheng and Han
01/02/02 Hofer Lecture Expands upon Houghton's Dilettanti Exhibition

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YEAR 2001 STORIES
12/18/01 Hilles Expands Outreach Program by Offering Carrels
12/11/01 The Environmental Information Center Moves Forward with a New Librarian
12/06/01 Jane Ouderkirk and Lynda Kresge Receive Eleventh Annual Ishimoto Award
12/06/01 Harvard-Yenching Library Announces New Holiday Greeting Cards
11/26/01 Widener Library Installs Card Access
11/16/01 New Periodicals Reading Room Opens in Widener Library
11/14/01 Korean Collection Commemorates 50th Anniversary
11/08/01 Harvard Theatre Collection Photographs Featured in MFA Exhibition
10/23/01 Librarians Participate in President's Installation
07/13/01 Harvard Libraries Adopt University PIN System for Access to HOLLIS Electronic Resources
06/22/01 Preparing for Phase 2: Exploratory Work in the Widener Lobby
05/25/01 Collaborative Effort: New Book In Student Series
05/17/01 Houghton Library Brings 100th Finding Aid Online
05/09/01 Phase 2 of Widener Library Renovation Approved
05/09/01 The Harvard Theatre Collection Celebrates 100 Years
05/09/01 Addie Frances Rowe: Friends And Aider of Scholars

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