NYPL
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Major preservation group calls NYPL plan “a real estate deal,” demands library reconsider A major new opponent of the New York Public Library’s “Central Library Plan” is on the scene: the Historic Districts Council, a prominent advocacy group that works on behalf of… Read more »
- What to do if you are against NYPL’s Central Library Plan
As highlighted in the New York Times, the opposition to the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan continues. A new letter (PDF) from scholars Joan Scott and Stanley Katz,… Read more »
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More people than ever using New York’s public libraries Start spreading the news: use of New York City’s libraries has increased dramatically in the past decade. A study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future and published yesterday found… Read more »
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Penguin’s lending e-books, again Penguin is back in the e-book lending game again. Sort of. After removing its titles from Overdrive in November 2011, Penguin has just announced that it is partnering with the… Read more »
- A new plan for the NYPL?
Writer Caleb Crain here pushes hard for compromise on the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan (which has been covered previously on MobyLives here, here, and here). In Crain’s… Read more »
- Opponents of radical NYPL renovation coalesce
A controversial $350 million transformation of the New York Public Library’s research library at 42nd (see the earlier MobyLives report) has a new opponent: In an Inside Higher Ed column,… 7 / Read more »
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Bloomberg moves to cut library funding…again Mike Kelley of Library Journal has broken down the figures on the proposed library cuts by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and they’re grim figures to be sure. They are made… Read more »
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New York Public Library to store 3 million books… in New Jersey A “gargantuan” and potentially controversial renovation of the New York Public Library’s iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman library is afoot, according to a must-read report by Scott Sherman in The Nation.… Read more »
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