New York Public Library Library Lions Gala honors Atwood, Eggers, Ishiguro, Robert B. Silvers, and Anna Deavere Smith
The New York Public Library held its annual Library Lions gala on Monday night, presenting honors to Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Kazuo Ishiguro, Robert B. Silvers, and Anna Deavere Smith. New York… Read more »
Now they tell us: NYPL admits that the Central Library Plan would have cost $200 million more than estimated
In an article in the New York Times on Sunday, Robin Pogrebin reports that the New York Public Library has at last admitted what critics of the now-defunct Central Library… Read more »
New York Public Library: sign our petition, but don’t read it too closely….
Another week, another chapter in the fight over The New York Public Library’s divisive Central Library Plan. On January 16, patrons of the library received an email from Theresa Myrhol, “Director,… Read more »
Notebook heiress gives $5 million to the NYPL Branch Libraries … because the NYPL Administration sure ain’t going to do it
The most surprising angle of the news that Mary McConnell Bailey, an heiress who willed a large chunk of her fortune derived from Roaring Spring Paper Products — otherwise known to… Read more »
Hundreds of writers and scholars rally to save the NYPL
More than 750 writers, scholars, and librarians have signed a public letter asking New York Public Library president Anthony Marx to reconsider a $350 million plan to radically transform its… Read more »