Melville House at the American Library Association Conference in San Francisco
Melville House Publisher Dennis Johnson and Director of Library & Academic Marketing Claire Kelley attended the American Library Association Annual Conference from June 26-29 in San Francisco at the Moscone… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: How banned are the banned books?
Topics discussed: National Basketball Association, podcasts, In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg, You Must Remember This, Charles Manson, Karina Longworth, President Obama, WTF with Marc Maron, The Bugle, John Oliver, The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, W.… Read more »
New York Public Library officials signal that the new master plan will be revealed next spring
After scrapping the Central Library Plan earlier this spring—a plan which would have cost over 500 million dollars and met with major public protest—library officials including Mary Lee Kennedy, the… Read more »
Scott Sherman describes the story behind his forthcoming book, Patience and Fortitude
Scott Sherman, the author of a series of award-winning cover stories for The Nation magazine about the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan, will come out with a book… 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 State says it is OK to destroy famed library, as long as they take pictures first
A closed-door decision in December by the office overseeing New York State’s historic preservation efforts has officially permitted The New York Public Library to proceed with its plan to demolish… Read more »
Fifty years ago, a strike that changed New York publishing
Fifty years ago this month Local No. 6 of the International Typographical Union (I.T.U.), a union confederation known by the nickname the “Big Six,” went to war with New York’s… 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 »
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 »
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 »