The New York Public Library is gearing up for a major renovation that will turn its main branch into a circulating library with computers and perhaps a cafe, while two other Manhattan branch libraries will be closed and a number of books will be stored in New Jersey. But first the NYPL has to contend with opposition from scholars and other frequent library users. Said one: "The library is being repositioned less as an institution that thinks of research and scholarship than as a kind of fashionable place for intellectuals that is more about entertainment than depth of knowledge." [NYT; previously]
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