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November 2009
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“Today the annual income from New York Public Library endowments falls several million dollars short of keeping the reference collections at their present level of quality even without service to the public. At one time the Library’s doors were open to the public thirteen hours a day, on 365 days of the year; then the working man, the untrained, unmatriculated scholar could use freely and anonymously, at no cost to himself, the riches of the reference collections. A year ago, however, the Library’s financial crisis forced early closing of the reference division at 6 PM, and complete closing on weekends and holidays. Certain reference divisions (performing arts, science and technology) narrowly missed being closed entirely to the public this year.”
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A letter in The New York Review of Books from 1972 from notable authors:
Hannah Arendt, Ann Birstein, William F. Buckley, Dr. Eric T. Carlson, Malcolm Cowley, Phyllis Dain, Ralph Ellison, James Thomas Flexner, Betty Friedan, Eugene Genovese, Arnold Gingrich, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Howe, Robert Hutchinson, Alfred Kazin, Robert Kotlowitz, Irving Kristol, Martin Mayer, Ellen Moers, Ernest Nagel, Carl Resek, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Harold C. Schonberg, Theodore Solotaroff, Lionell Trilling
Crisis in the NY Public Library - The New York Review of Books
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