New York Public Library opens Andrew Carnegie exhibit - NY Daily News

 

He gave a gift and it has kept on giving.

Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated $5.2 million to the New York
Public Library in 1901 to expand its services through branches around
the city.


Calling it a “rare privilege” to provide the funds that would build the
modern library system beloved by New Yorkers today, Carnegie wrote his
massive check without a hint of misgiving.

Last week, the NYPL opened a new free display celebrating Carnegie's vision and generosity.

“Celebrating Carnegie's Gift to New Yorkers” will run through May 10 in
the McGraw Rotunda on the third floor of NYPL’s iconic Stephen A.
Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan. Read more..

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In This Digital Age, Book Collecting Is Still Going Strong - WSJ

Peter Miller’s Freebird Books in Brooklyn, N.Y., focuses on used and rare books about New York.
  Photo: Jonathan Cramer 

By

Steven Rosenbush

April 12, 2015 11:02 p.m. ET

 

Digital disruption notwithstanding, book collecting appears to be
alive and well, sustained in part by the very same people who are
driving adoption of smartphones, tablets, e-readers and the like.



Take JT Bachman,
a 28-year-old architect with Rockwell Group in New York. He gets his
news from digital sources but prefers printed material when reading for
pleasure and says he has become a recent convert to book collecting. Mr.
Bachman says he has about 100 new, used and out-of-print titles on his
shelves, including the architectural tome “Herzog & de Meuron:
Natural History” by Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog, and plans on
buying more.



“I started collecting books because it is a way to catalog time,” Mr. Bachman says. “I want to keep them for the longer term.” Read more....

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