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Glitz and ghosts in the library

Written by Anthony Grafton, Columnist
Published: Monday, March 3rd, 2008
A student just sent me a piece that Witold Rybczynski posted on slate.com last Wednesday. The author, a brilliant architecture scholar who teaches at Penn, begins by asking "How do you build a public library in the age of Google?" ...(back to the article)

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    9:47 p.m. on March 4th, 2008
    Posted by Joshua

    I hope they don't do to firestone what Yale did to CCL: they turned a cool underground modernist library into a neogothic monstrosity!! Actually, CCL is much more pleasant now, but it's funny that they inserted a fake amount of gothic into a formerly modernist space.

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    9:31 a.m. on March 4th, 2008
    Posted by D

    http://www.slate.com/id/2184927/

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