| re: Brooklyn Central Library is shutting down its "Arts/Music" floor | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 02:15 am EDT 07/03/24 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 02:12 am EDT 07/03/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Brooklyn Central Library is shutting down its "Arts/Music" floor - wizrdofoz27 12:19 pm EDT 06/30/24 | |
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| Hi, wizrdofoz27. I am linking several New York Times articles about the plans. I will mention here something that is also mentioned toward the end of the op-ed by Edmund Morris that is linked. One thing that happened at Performing Arts, which I think (though I’m not positive) was reversed, was a change in the way librarians were deployed. For decades, each area on the third floor (the research floor) was served by a limited, specialized group of librarians. Specialists in theatre were at the theatre desk, specialists in music were at the music desk, specialists in dance were at the dance desk. It was decided that any librarian there should be able to deal with anything. So all those specialists, some of whom had worked there for decades and knew specifics about whichever collection they worked in, were suddenly moved to the first and second floors as general librarians, while the general librarians were moved to the specialty areas, about which they knew little. The librarians were, as you might expect, extremely upset about this (and at least some of them were not shy about telling patrons how they felt), and so were patrons who regularly used the third floor. I know they also moved some specialists in different areas who worked behind the scenes processing newly donated collections to other places in the system, thereby losing the knowledge and expertise of those people, who were also generally specialists in their areas. I also heard that there were plans to sell off NYPL’s world-renowned Slavic and East European collections, but if there were such plans, they never happened. Unfortunately, I was wrong about the president having been replaced, but it seems that at least some of his plans were reversed. What some of the plans were Biographer Edmund Morris’s op-ed NYPL president Anthony Marx answers readers question NYPL abandons plans |
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