A new plan for the NYPL?
Kelly Burdick
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 »
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 »
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 »
Interesting developments arise as James Joyce’s work comes into the public domain. In reaction to the publication of a collection of unpublished Joyce manuscripts by scholar Danis Rose, and Rose’s… Read more »
A rare engraved print created by Paul Revere—he of the Revolutionary War “midnight ride” fame—has been found in a 19th century book at the Brown University library, according to this… Read more »
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 »
A 500-year-old book, which has been missing from Archbishop Marsh’s Library in Dublin for more than a century, has been returned. The book was one of a 5 volume set… 2 / Read more »
As detailed in this New York Times report by David Streitfeld, the 15-year-old non-profit Internet Archive has started a hugely ambitious project to assemble and scan all of the world’s… Read more »
The National Archive has unveiled the centerpiece of the David M. Rubentstien Exhibition and Visitor Center, its new exhibition gallery: a newly restored and encased 1297 Magna Carta, which is on loan… 2 / Read more »
The life of the city of Lawrence, Kansas in carefully told, down to the most minute detail, in its daily record book. According to this report in the Lawrence Journal,… Read more »
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 »