When Yale recently decided to relocate three-quarters of the books in its undergraduate library to create more study space, the students loudly protested. In a passionate op-ed in the Yale Daily News, one student accused the university librarian—who oversees 15 million books in Yale’s extensive library system—of failing to “understand the crucial relationship of books to education.” A sit-in, or rather a “browse-in,” was held in Bass Library to show the administration how college students still value the presence of books. Eventually the number of volumes that would remain was expanded, at ...
Updated: 05/26/2019 06:00A
As financial pressures have forced scores of small-town nursing homes to shut down, their residents often must relocate far from their families to find care.
Updated: 03/04/2019 05:20A