May 08, 2014 » MobyLives! Archives

The New York Public Library has abandoned a plan to transform the flagship 42nd Street research library and sell the Mid-Manhattan Library. According to a New York Times report by… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

Fundraiser sends more than 5,000 books to Ethiopia’s largest library — Nikki Griffiths
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths
Theories abound after anonymous return of Darwin's notebooks — Tom Clayton
"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton

Critics of the Central Library Plan react to New York Public Library’s change of course

Claire Kelley

In a major reversal on Wednesday, the New York Times reported that the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan to sell off the Mid-Manhattan Library and destroy the historic… Read more »

Amazon now lets you buy pre-moistened toilet wipes on Twitter. Great. Important news. Great.

Have you ever stared up at the sky for a while and just willed with all your might that a massive meteor—like, Chicxulub Crater massive—would come barreling through the atmosphere straight… Read more »

MFA vs LDN: the “viral contagion” of creative writing courses in Britain

Zeljka Marosevic

The publishing industry was yesterday coming to terms with a fact many of us have known to be true for quite some time now: there are a hell of a… Read more »

Coldplay, the band The Beatles could have been, loves libraries

Alex Shephard

It is a truth universally acknowledged that all bands that are not Coldplay are trash. And it is another truth universally acknowledged that Coldplay is the greatest band in the history of… Read more »

Melville House Books

May 8, 2014

In a major reversal, NYPL to let the stacks live and keep Mid-Manhattan

Kelly Burdick