The Harvard Crimson, December 12, 2016: “Hidden amid the labyrinthine stacks in the basement of Widener Library, more than a dozen machines slowly transform books and artifacts into digital files available for download. Librarians stand next to the hulking machines for hours, painstakingly scanning more than 7,000 pages every day. They take care not to damage the delicate binding of the original books. This process—digitizing library collections—occurs across the Harvard Library System, which includes 79 libraries. The end result: Everything from rare books to pamphlet and map collections to medieval manuscripts, business records, architectural drawings, and photographs can now be found on various websites of the Harvard library, and not just in the stacks.”