Records of the Space and Long Range Planning Committee, 1972- 1990 (inclusive).

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Records of the Space and Long Range Planning Committee, 1972- 1990 (inclusive).

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Contains reports, correspondence, notes and memoranda from the Space and Long Range Planning Committee concerning storage in the Harvard College Library system, 1983-1984. Includes various proposals, plans and suggestions for the reorganization of collections as well as readings and analyses of precedents in dealing with storage problems in libraries, including earlier materials and records of related efforts from late 1980s. Records were accumulated by Lawrence Dowler, head of Widener Library Public Services.

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Harvard University Archives.

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