Libraries and Librarians
An Irish National Treasure Gets Set for a Long-Needed Restoration
DUBLIN — The Long Room, with its imposing oak ceiling and two levels of bookshelves laden with some of Ireland’s most ancient and valuable volumes, is the oldest part of the library in Trinity College Dublin, in constant use since 1732. But that remarkable record is about to be disrupted, as engineers, architects and conservation […]
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Museum of Natural History’s New Science Center Takes Shape
In 2014, when the American Museum of Natural History first announced plans for a major expansion devoted to science, the museum president, Ellen V. Futter, talked about the “gap in the public understanding of science at the same time when many of the most important issues have science as their foundation.” Now, in a world […]
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Their Family Business? The Other Dimension.
Lisette Coly and Anastasia Damalas are at a crossroads. But, on a recent late-winter morning, they were also in the book-filled storefront of their foundation in the Greenport section of Long Island, when someone knocked at the door. Ms. Coly, 71, and her daughter, Ms. Damalas, 32, were leery. Their family nonprofit is appointment-only, and […]
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An 8-Year-Old Wrote a Book and Hid It on a Library Shelf. It’s a Hit.
For example, in “Chaptr 1,” Dillon writes, “ONe Day in wintr it wus Crismis!” In his “Crismis” tale, Dillon, the protagonist and the author, goes on a time-traveling adventure after the star on the tree explodes. “Santa comes,” he said, explaining the next part of the plot. After that, Dillon comes across five trees, and […]
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