Showing posts with label Selling libraries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Selling libraries. Show all posts
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Article In The Villager On What’s Happening To NYC Libraries Featuring Citizens Defending Libraries- Some Contradictions Are Picture Perfect

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It is so valuable and so rare when the press runs stories about the selling off of NYC libraries, valuable even when NYPL officials are allo...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Narcissists: There’s a New Category Called “The Communal Narcissist”— Why Is That Something Library Defenders Would Want To Know More About?

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Putting together a few thoughts about narcissism and those who sell libraries-  Clockwise from top, an article about "communal narcis...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Wall Street Journal Reveals Fate Of SIBL, The City’s Biggest Science Library: Super-Wealthy Paul Allen Will Turn It Into “Pop-Culture Museum.”

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The "Thing" that will take over NYC's biggest science library The Wall Street Journal just revealed the currently intended...
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Monday, May 28, 2018

Destroying The English Commons- Isn’t This Exactly The Wrong Response To An Economic Squeezing?

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New York Times front page: To ` Tighten ' your ` belt ' in England you sell 17 Liverpool parks to developers and your sold off lib...
Sunday, December 31, 2017

What Libraries Are Affected By New York City Plans To Sell Libraries As Real Estate Deals, Shrink And Underfund Libraries And Eliminate Books?

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Library officials said early on that they wanted to sell the most valuable NYC libraries first .  And indeed, that is exactly what the NY...

NYC Libraries Are Being Sold For Huge Losses And For Minuscule Fractions of Their Value

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People ask whether the public is at least getting good deals or "value" when we sell our libraries.  We absolutely are not.  We ...

When Did The Plans To Sell Libraries (Plus The Launching of The Concomitant Underfunding of Libraries) Begin?

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Although plans to sell NYC libraries were not announced by the Mayor Michael Bloomberg administration until much later, those plans actuall...

Why Turning Libraries Into Real Estate Deals Isn't The Good Deal Library and City Development Officials Describe

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At first blush, many people have accepted what city development and library officials have regularly asserted about the deals launching th...

Selling Libraries And The Broader Issue of Private Sector Plunder of Public Property

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Libraries are not our only public commons that are undemocratically under attack.  The attacks on libraries reflect a much wider scourge o...

The Biggest Lies To Watch Out For When Officials Sell Libraries

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Some of The Biggest Lies To Watch Out For  City and library officials working with real estate developers trot out a standard set of mis...