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Well that's very rousing, but only someone working for a chronically underfunded and at-risk institution would feel the need to write such flowery prose. If I w
by jasonisalive 12y ago
Well that's very rousing, but only someone working for a chronically underfunded and at-risk institution would feel the need to write such flowery prose. If I was a rich taxpayer whose money was on the line I don't think I would be convinced.
- walterbell 12y agoYeah some wanted to turn NYC's flagship research library into a glorified starbucks, removing book stacks. Pesky enlightenment democracy and city elections had a diferent opinion. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/arts/design/public-library-abandons-plan-to-revamp-42nd-street-building.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/arts/design/public-library... --- In a striking about-face, the New York Public Library has abandoned its much-disputed renovation plan to turn part of its research flagship on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street into a circulating library and instead will refurbish the nearby Mid-Manhattan Library, several library trustees said .. This shift is something of a defeat for the library, which had already paid the British architect Norman Foster $9 million in private funds for his firm’s work on the plan for the flagship, a 1911 Beaux-Arts landmark. ---
- taybin 12y agoThe short-sightedness of the current crop of the upper class is a problem.