"Working at" doesn't mean "working for" or "employed by." I used to work at that library too. In the research section of the main reading room. Doing research. And every now and then I'd stretch, lean way back in my old-fashioned wooden library chair, and stare up at the gilded mermaids on the ceiling, wondering how much they weighed and how long it would take for one of them to break free, fall on top of me, and smother me in its bare-bosomed embrace.
I personally have several hundred books that are not digitized and most likely never will be. If you had ten lifetimes to do nothing but read what's in those stacks you wouldn't scratch the surface of what's not -- and won't be -- on the web.
So what if the books move to New Jersey. Do you know how many people live in Midtown Manhattan?
Nearly none...it's just a bunch of work office towers and by 6pm it turns into a ghost town.
A big library in Central New Jersey would be way more useful to way more people than some gigantic old City library which is so full of old wooden things that need polishing all day long it eats up the entire budget.
The video or image or what the link in the middle isn't showing up for me so I have no idea what y'all are arguing about, but Humans of New York blog is great great great.
@10: They're not talking about creating a public library in New Jersey. They're talking about moving the research collection to a storage facility there. Have you ever done library res... wait, I retract the question. The point is, you don't want every breadcrumb on the trail to mean a separate trip to the library.
A lending library with a ton of computers is going to give more New Yorkers more of the books and information they need than a physical research collection does. The research collection is still going to exist and be accessible. I'm a 4 or 5 day a week library patron, I spent a decade as a library assistant, and I support this move.
Old Chicken Van Winkle must have been living and sleeping inside a stack. Ever here of the web?
You might want to consider more time in the library for yourself, troll
I personally have several hundred books that are not digitized and most likely never will be. If you had ten lifetimes to do nothing but read what's in those stacks you wouldn't scratch the surface of what's not -- and won't be -- on the web.
Do you believe the obscenely wealthy bother with the fucking library?
@5,
What a way to go.
So what if the books move to New Jersey. Do you know how many people live in Midtown Manhattan?
Nearly none...it's just a bunch of work office towers and by 6pm it turns into a ghost town.
A big library in Central New Jersey would be way more useful to way more people than some gigantic old City library which is so full of old wooden things that need polishing all day long it eats up the entire budget.