What can a library do in the 21st century?
FRIDAY, 16 MARCH 2018 00:00
SEE below some preliminary paragraphs of an article about libraries sn
their future
JS
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On the occasion of the documentary "Ex libris: The New York Public Library"
by Frederic Weisman, which was screened on March 10th at the 20th
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
By Eliana Chourmouziadou
As a secondary school student in the distant 1970s, I was fortunate to
attend a school that had a library, a scrumptious luxury for Greece at that
time, as it is for today. My relationship with this library could itself be
the subject of another text. Without it, then I realized it was my future.
There I also acquired the kind of knowledge that is indelibly written on
the hard disk of memory, unlike what I have learned in the school classes,
most of which have long been forgotten. But with my graduation from high
school, my contact with libraries was virtually ending. Since then, all the
books I've read have been bought or, at most, borrowed from friends. While
I was already familiar with the environment and use, the ability to easily
access a good lending library had disappeared, and that did not change at
all in the passage of time. I am even wondering if anyone in this country
is accustomed to resorting to libraries for a purpose other than academic
study and research. I also wonder whether this indicates, in addition to
the lack of relevant cultivation, a general depreciation of the state's
offer to its citizens, which we hope will correct the new National Library
at SNFCC. We do not see shelves of loaded books, but faces watching the
speaker, while behind them the rotating door of the entrance turns every so
often and the pitch of voices and voices dissipates in the space.
All this warns us that the library is a living and, by extension, evolving
organization. Ex Libris: The New York Library These are some of the first
thoughts I made when I watched the beasty New York Public Library in the
documentary by Frederic Weissman Ex libris, which was screened at this
year's Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, and will soon be distributed also
in Athens. With the equally brutal duration of 3 hours and 17 minutes, the
documentary covers all the multifarious activities of this library, founded
in 1895, and began to take its present form in the first decade of the 20th
century when its central building was inaugurated Fifth Avenue and its
first branches were established.
If the length of the documentary is great, the scope of activities included
in the NYPL operation, as its acronym, is equally extensive. In addition to
borrowing or fieldwork in print and / or digital form, these activities
also include the preservation of manuscript and archive collections, the
observance of a collection of images classified by topic (eg dogs in
action), meetings with writers and artists (see, among other things,
Richard Nokkin, Elvis Costello and Patty Smith), seminars and lessons for
acquiring skills that the current era recognizes as necessary (eg behavior
during an interview (excellent exchange of views on Eros during cholera),
lectures and discussions on a literally unlimited variety of topics,
educational programs for preschool and school age children, English lessons
for people who have another mother tongue (in this case the Chinese of
Chinatown), art exhibitions, concerts and screenings of films, and many
more, all which make up an impressive and self-evident list (it is
possible to organize and fitness classes for seniors? But it is). Weseman
does not want to miss any aspects of the work being done here.
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For the rest of the analysis and some comments on libraries in Greece
USE THIS LINK
https://www.bookpress.gr/politismos/sinema/ex-libris-new-york-public-librar…
June S
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