Rich writes “The January 26 Harvard Crimson reports that the Harvard College Library system is laying off 10 workers and eliminating several vacant positions.
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“It was a huge stress thing for everybody over here,” said Booth, who works in cataloging services for Widener Library. “Our salaries are so low, we’re living paycheck to paycheck, most of us. Layoffs have the knockout effect of homelessness.”
Meanwhile, Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam wrote about the Harvard layoffs in his Thursday column
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“Fair Harvard Only a churl would juxtapose Monday’s report in the Harvard Crimson is eliminating 18 librarians’ jobs with the Globe story earlier this month about the $107 million payout to six investment managers at the Harvard Management Co. According to the Crimson, Harvard’s library system has to cut $2.3 million in fiscal year 2005, scaling back on both hours and jobs. Better the money runners should buy a second Jaguar than layabout librarians collect their pathetic pittance, I say! This is one university that has its priorities straight.”
The Crimson link via j’s scratchpad Here“
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