The Rose Main Reading Room,
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building - NYPL
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building - NYPL
E chegamos a tudo isto a partir do artigo de hoje no NYT New York Public Library Shifts Plan for 5th Ave.
Lá, no artigo, «mergulhamos» em coisas fantásticas. Sabemos de mecenas que não são habituais na nossa vivência:«The gift, from Abby S. Milstein, a lawyer and trustee, and her husband, Howard P. Milstein, a banker, will cover the cost of building 30,000 square feet of storage space to keep 1.5 million books that would otherwise have been sent to a warehouse in New Jersey».
Vemos a valorização do «processo» em paralelo com os «resultados»:“I’m very pleased both by the outcome but also by the process,” said Anthony T. Grafton, a Princeton University history professor who serves on the plan’s advisory panel. “It seems to me we saw a great public institution and its leader actually listening to the response of its public.”
Fala-se de digitalização e de custos:Under the plan two Midtown library locations will be merged into the Schwarzman Building: the Mid-Manhattan Library, the system’s largest circulating library, and the Science, Industry and Business Library, where the use of print materials is decreasing because of digitization. The library expects the project to save $15 million annually in operating costs.
Aparece um Professor de «Public and International Affairs»: This doesn’t respond almost at all to the fundamental critique of the Central Library Plan as it still exists,” said Stanley N. Katz, a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, who also serves on the library’s advisory panel. “One of the principal — if not the principal — rationales was, the library needed to do this to get the money to continue the research function at 42d Street. That part of it turns out not to be true.
E lá sabemos de uma Bilioteca da Indústria e do Negócio: Under the plan two Midtown library locations will be merged into the Schwarzman Building: the Mid-Manhattan Library, the system’s largest circulating library, and the Science, Industry and Business Library, where the use of print materials is decreasing because of digitization. The library expects the project to save $15 million annually in operating costs.
E muito mais, muito mais, e estes assuntos, pensando bem, são matérias que são pensadas e refletidas na esfera da coisa pública. Por Administrações Públicas.
Sem comentários:
Enviar um comentário