Digitization: Does It Always Improve Access to Rare Books and Special Collections?

Does Clarifying Responsibility Always Improve Policy?

In the principal-agent relationship that characterizes the policy-making process, unified agency and observability of agent actions clarify responsibility for policy outcomes. We show that when policy making is sequential, these institutional features can interact with negative consequences for the welfare of political principals. In equilibrium, the principal behaves in a way that induces the ...

No place like Holmes: the rare books and special collections department of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Hall, the reading room of the Countway Library's Rare Books & Special Collections department, re-opened its doors to researchers on May 1 7, 1999 after being closed for two months while the department moved into newly renovated quarters. Holmes Hall-or the "new," elegant Holmes Hall-is the crown jewel ofthe "new" Rare Books & Special Collections department. The department,...

A Toolbox For Movable Books Digitization

Nowadays, scanning and diffusing fac-similes are well studied and known tasks. However digitizing movable books addresses new issues. In this paper, we describe preliminary results about a software that eases the rebuilding of moving systems of such books. This tool computes, in a semi-automatic way, the reassembling of the system’s texture, the detection of the system’s shape, its rebuilding i...

standards for ethical conduct for rare book, manuscript, and special collections libraries and librarians

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Gender and sleep "Morning came, as it always does".