The Sun Yat-Sen library has “quite a good collection, but it is weak in the western language area,” according to Brainard.
“It was a win-win,” she said. “It was a wonderful home and we could help out a good university in China.”
Cole said she knew that “Hilles library has been a fantastic resource for residents of the Quad,” and “there’s no real way to say that all those aspects are going to be retained.”
“We know everything that is going to be leaving Cambridge will be available in other parts of the Harvard Library system,” Cole said. “That’s not the same thing, but that’s the mandate we’re working with right now.”
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