“However, in an 1882 report of the Harvard College Library, Harvey Ware Wrote:

‘A new life and spirit seem to pervade the place; and it is safe to say

that a public library does not exist in which readers are more

cordially welcomed, or more intelligently and courteously aided in

the researches, than the library of Harvard college under its present

enlightened and modern management.’ ”

Reference Data:

The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web, by William J. Frost, 2005, page 9