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Around the information landscape with Elisabeth Tully, Director of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library

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Entries Tagged as 'Facilities'

Sometimes, there is magic

December 8th, 2009 · No Comments

It is the end of the term at the Academy, and students are having assessments all week. They are tired, anxious, and generally stressed. Sometimes the smallest of gestures can go a long way towards lifting their spirits. I observed such a gesture this morning. For the third year in a row, [...]

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The phantom of the faucet

January 26th, 2009 · No Comments

They don’t teach you everything you need to know in library school. For example, I never imagined that I’d be responsible, as library director, for a 60,000 square foot facility with “quirks.”
One of the more puzzling of our facilities issues is the inexplicable never-ending automatic-shut-off faucet located in the women’s rest room. The [...]

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Tags: Administration · Facilities