Since I worked there as the Supervising Art/Picture Collection Librarian until last August, and our esteemed colleague Clayton Kirking still does work there (in a higher capacity than mine), and I believe both of us will be in Toronto, you might want to have us weigh in on this. Some of the facts are wrong. For instance, not all of the research holdings at Schwarzman (the "Central Library") will be transferred to the Princeton storage facility. Still.....
Here is a link to the page that officially describes the plan.
http://www.nypl.org/yourlibrary
Of course, as with all institutional publicity, you must read between the lines a little. Just sayin'
Susan Chute
Art and Digital Collections Librarian
(formerly with NYPL)
On 28 Mar 2012, at 2:47 PM, Lockard, Ray Anne wrote:
> I apologize to colleagues if this has already been posted. VERY important! Ray Anne Lockard
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> Could ARLIS/NA EB write a letter jointly with CAA?
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> Bibliographer and Public Services Librarian
> Frick Fine Arts Library
> University of Pittsburgh
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> From: Consortium of Art and Architectural Historians [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ogden, Kate
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> Subject: Re: shocking plan to destroy NYPL as a research library!
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> In addition to having CAA make a statement as a professional association, does anyone know how to start one of those "email petitions" that get forwarded around the country? I say let's deluge the current CEO of the library, Anthony Marx, to ask (as Scott McLemee says) "why a collection of three million volumes gathered over more than a century is being treated as a distraction, rather than as the institution's entire claim to cultural significance." His public email address is: [log in to unmask]
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> I'm thinking of signing the Facebook page about this, although "liking" the page seems counterintuitive since I strongly dislike the library's plan.
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> Kate Ogden
> Stockton College
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> http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/03/28/column-new-york-public-library-research-collection
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> I wonder if there might be a way of raising a call for CAA to make a statement as a professional association against this crazy plan?
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