March 12, 2012 – Controversy at the New York Public Library.

Critics of New York Public Library’s proposed renovations say the 42nd Street branch would be turning into a “giant Internet cafe” and worry that gutting the stacks to put in more space for computers will make print books harder to access. One thinks that maybe libraries “shouldn’t be bleeding-edge”.

April 12, 2012  – NYPL President Anthony Marx.

NYPL’s president defends the proposed changes as well as the purpose of public libraries as institutions that stand for “free and public access to ideas and information” where all community members can go to “read and write and think and create”. Includes comments on the importance of cataloguing :)