The Future of the NYPL:
A Public Discussion
Eric Banks
Joan Wallach Scott
Mark Alan Hewitt
David Nasaw
Charles Petersen
Tuesday 22 May, 2012
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
New School, Lang Community Center
55 West 13th Street
In an effort to open a public discussion of the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan, the organizers of a petition calling on NYPL President Anthony Marx to reconsider the $350 million plan are holding a meeting at the Theresa Lang Community Center at the New School.
National Book Critics Circle President Eric Banks will moderate a panel consisting of Joan Wallach Scott, professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; architect, preservationist, and architectural historian Mark Alan Hewitt; David Nasaw, professor of history at the Graduate Center at CUNY; and Charles Petersen, an n+1 associate editor and author of a piece on the NYPL, online now and forthcoming in Issue 14.
National Book Critics Circle President Eric Banks will moderate a panel consisting of Joan Wallach Scott, professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; architect, preservationist, and architectural historian Mark Alan Hewitt; David Nasaw, professor of history at the Graduate Center at CUNY; and Charles Petersen, an n+1 associate editor and author of a piece on the NYPL, online now and forthcoming in Issue 14.