In collaboration with Preservation Services Collection Care, Imaging Services has established a new programmatic work-stream: the Widener Library, digitization of ReCAP items committed to retain program. As the name suggests, this project is connected to the ReCAP (Research Collections and Preservation Consortium) program, to which Harvard Library is a dedicated partner. ReCAP’s mission is to…
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A Hundred Years Later …
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Western countries, driven by the pursuit of natural resources, economic gain, and a “civilizing mission,” embarked on a period of intense territorial expansion and exploration. Among their many endeavors was the discovery and collection of plant species previously unknown to the West. Governments and institutions dispatched botanists…