Update on That Raining Inside Sitch

If you thought that Widener Library was a place where your soul could go to die, and your body could go to escape the rain, half of your presumptions were recently proven false when it started raining inside a reading room the other day.

"It's the skylights," said Harvard College Libraries spokesperson Beth Brainard. "We're aware of the problem, and it's been an ongoing process of resolving it."

According to Brainard, the University is working with the contractors who installed the skylights during Widener's renovation.

"Generally, leaks are reported. In this case, no one reported it," Brainard said (FlyBy totally reported it! Though admittedly not to the library's operation's staff...). "It's just one of those unfortunate things."

Indeed. Like dumping water on that priceless book you're reading.