Time For Harvard To Deal With Its Bloated Budget-Busting Libraries

It is about time for the Harvard Corporation to finally stand up to the bloated, budget-busting tyranny of the Harvard University Library.  Since John Harvard gave the university its first endowment of 400 books and a paltry 780 pounds to manage them, the library has been an odious drain on University finances. Current plans to restructure Harvard libraries and institute deep cuts to staff, services, and collections in the consecrated name of financially responsible austerity are the result of theLibrary Task Force Report. With an endowment of 32 billion dollars growing in 2011 at a meager 21.4%, Harvard simply can no longer afford to maintain the best and largest academic library collection in the world.  Read more at:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/2/1/library-layoffs-satire/