Archive for the 'NYPL' Category
New York Public Library Get$ a Boo$t
March 11th, 2008New York Times - “The New York Public Library’s venerable lion-guarded building on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street is to be renamed for the Wall Street financier Stephen A. Schwarzman, who has agreed to jump-start a $1 billion expansion of the library system with a guaranteed $100 million of his own.”
More on the NYPL Bush Exhibit
December 7th, 2007The Guardian - “A series of six black and white prints on display in an unassuming corner of the New York public library have sparked controversy on the airwaves and blogosphere quite out of keeping with the dark, marble-lined corridor in which they are hung.”
More on Library Exhibits
December 1st, 2007The NYPL is causing some controversy.
General Counsel at the NYPL
September 2nd, 2007Susan Hansen - “[H]e and the library’s two other in-house lawyers are also dealing with a far steadier stream of knotty copyright questions, now that works hidden away on the library’s shelves can be digitized and broadly disseminated. “The big question is: What does it mean to be a twenty-first-century library?” says Vanni. “We are [...]
NYT Archives to NYPL
July 25th, 2007NYT - “Disputes about printing confidential national security information have flared in recent years, but this particular letter is dated July 11, 1916, and was sent by Newton Baker, Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of war. It is part of a vast collection of personal letters, financial documents, confidential reports, photographs and more — more than 700,000 [...]