Archinect - News2024-05-05T19:15:29-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/53231648/what-lies-behind-the-battle-over-the-new-york-public-library
What lies behind the battle over the New York Public Library Archinect2012-07-09T12:25:00-04:00>2012-07-09T14:20:38-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c6/c6a9a6efe3ea80b9d98cd993990d97fb?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The hottest cultural controversy of this already hot summer concerns the New York Public Library (NYPL), and a plan to disembowel its main building – a plan that will slice open the stacks and "replace books with people", in the words of the NYPL system's CEO, Tony Marx. It's enraged writers and professors, demoralized a staff already coping with layoffs, and called the entire purpose of the system into question.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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