Library Bound

One of Joan Hinde Stewart's top accomplishments as president of Hamilton College: merging the library and information technology operations into one department. Most colleges keep their libraries and IT departments separate, but at many smaller colleges -- and particularly liberal arts institutions -- administrators see a merger as a way to curb administrative costs. Others, however, see combining two departments with significantly overlapping responsibilities as the best way to serve their faculty members and students. Hamilton says it belongs to the latter group.