While the doors to Harvard Library’s physical spaces remain closed for the safety of our community, library staff are working diligently and ensuring that virtual access to our collections (both print and electronic) will continue to promote learning and discovery in the Summer and Fall 2020 semesters and beyond.
Feeling the urge to purge? Before you toss those papers, Longwood Medical Area faculty and staff are invited to watch this video and contact the Center for the History of Medicine for help with appraising their professional and research records.
A small group of us started a team to walk the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Connecticut (virtually). We record and track our miles/steps we walked, ran, or biked each day. By the end of the first week, our team was hovering in 24th place out of 89 teams. Not too shabby!
In his March 19th online post, Thomas Pueyo coined the response to the coronavirus as hammer and a dance (see “Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance”). We are in the middle of the hammer phase and planning for the slow dance phase at HMS Countway.
You might have seen Billy Baker’s article in the March 13, 2020 Boston Globe where he describes the quiet of Boston. The “worst rush hour traffic in America” became nothing. The author called this the “Great Pause.” Our entire campus is at a standstill.
