it's part of an effort to bring some attention to the city's ongoing push to close libraries. Library Rallies in Brooklyn
NYS Assemblywoman Joan Millman City Council Member Stephen Levin speaking Saturday April 13 Brooklyn Heights Library Noon to 1:00 280 Cadman Plaza by Tillary Pacific Library 2:00-3:00 25 Fourth Avenue at Pacific Street Park Slope/Boerum Hill Brooklyn For more info http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=137994 Library Rallies in Manhattan Monday, April 15, Noon to 1:00 Rally for Mid-Manhattan and SIBIL Libraries, both slated to be sold off Meet in front of 42st Central Reference Library at corner of 40th Street and 5th Avenue For more info http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138054 Wednesday, April 17, Noon to 1:00 Rally for Donnell Library, An Epic Tradegy 20 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, (meet at 40 West 53rd St) Home of Winnie The Pooh, rare music CDs, and documentaries Sold off to a developer in 2008 and still no promised replacement Come say We Remember and Never Again! For more info http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138060 Thursday April 18, Noon to 1:00 Save the Libraries Press Conference! Steps of City Hall Comptroller John Liu to speak Come early to go through security Sign up, get info here http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=137892 One of the great things about living in New York City is being in the information capital of the world and what is happening? The City is selling off libraries, removing books and demolishing research stacks, making books a "back office operation", reducing hours and laying off librarians, deliberately starving libraries of funds when usage is way up. Come join your neighbors and fellow library lovers in showing that our libraries need to be expanded, not shrunk and sold off. Although you do not have to sign up to come, it helps us plan better. Thank you, see you at the rallies! Carolyn McIntyre Owen On Apr 12, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Alex Lake <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wondering... what's the point of this? > > The 16mm films in the NYPL are still available to everyone at the Library of > Performing Arts at Lincoln Center... You just need to call a week ahead of > time and make an appointment... The Reserve Film and Video Collection at the > NYPL is still going strong doing preservations and acquiring new work (I > believe that they got new prints of a lot of Jack Smith films, they're now > holding a few Markopoulos films too)... As far as I know nothing has been > deaccessioned or is at risk... > > I understand that it's awful that the city sold the building to developers > who've done nothing with the space but everything that was once in those > walls is still accessible to the public... I never visited the space when it > was there, so maybe I'm not the most informed but is a rally five years later > necessary? > > -Alex > > > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:55 AM, op <[email protected]> wrote: > Wednesday, April 17th, 12:00 PM > Rally for The Donnell Media Center , lunchtime near MoMA ! > 20 West 53rd Street, 20 West 53rd Street, 5th and 6th. > A beloved main New York City library was sold off through secretive > arrangements in 2008 > to a private developer who went bankrupt and there is still no replacement > library. > 20 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, (meet at 40 West 53rd St) > > For more info > > https://www.facebook.com/notes/owen-plotkin/a-nyc-treasure-the-donnell-media-center-in-jeopardy-/16377370002 > > > http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138060 > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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