Wednesday, October 08, 2003

Thought I'd pop in and leave you all a fun fact I just discovered about my current place of employment:

The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library is Harvard University's flagship library. Built in 1915 with a gift from Eleanor Elkins Widener, it is a memorial to her son, Harry, Class of 1907, an enthusiastic young bibliophile who perished aboard the Titanic. It had been Harry's plan to donate his personal collection to the University once it provided a suitable alternative to the outdated and inadequate library space then located in Gore Hall. Mrs. Widener fulfilled her son's dream by building a facility of monumental proportions, with over 65 miles of shelves and the capacity to hold over three million volumes.

Cool. Slightly on the creepy side, what with my working in what's essentially a giant mausoleum, but cool nonetheless.

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