With Expanding Library’s Promise, Concern About Its Purpose
By Megan • Mar 18th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Edward Rothstein reports for The New York Times:
“Last week, when the New York Public Library announced a $1 billion expansion, including a transformation of its flagship building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street using a $100 million donation by the Wall Street financier Stephen A. Schwarzman, it signaled both a great opportunity and a great temptation.
It is a great opportunity because with such resources, what might not be possible? The library’s “main branch” (as I still refer to it), with its famed reading room, has become ever more alluring in recent years, but there is so much to be done to expand its majestic promise outward.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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