ST. BONAVENTURE - Amid the Harvard brick exterior, two angels sit atop separate, stone columns, guarding the great wooden doors of the Friedsam Memorial Library and holding scrolls that read “Novo et Vetera,” Latin for “New Things and Old.”

To combine the new and the old, archivist Dennis Frank toils on computers and files through documents to introduce the official historical records of the institution to more than 1.7 billion Internet users, he said.