Library Lions 2009
Well, if this video doesn’t get you jazzed about being a writer, then nothing will….
The New York Public library is a treasure without parallel, and it is getting ready to expand in unprecedented ways.
Over the next five years it will open five new hub libraries, patterned on the great Bronx Library Center. It will extensively digitize its collections, and will transform the Fifth Avenue building, increasing the public space accessible there by three times the current space. That and a whole host of other capital projects in the research and branch system will make the world’s best research and learning institution even better.
All this for just under $1 billion. Private funds will pay for more than half, (Steven Schwarzman from the Blackstone Group already has already given $250 million) land sales will fund most of the rest, grants from the government will pick up the remainder.
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