Slavic & Baltic Division reading Room at NYPL closes

[jeff brooks]

What a terrible shame. jeff brooks

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Anthony Anemone <tonyanemone at gmail.com>wrote:

> I just found out over the weekend that the Slavonic & Baltic Division
> Reading room at the NYPL was closed on Sept 2, apparently permanently.
> Although the library has stated that books from the collection will
> continue
> to be made available to readers in the Main Reading Room, questions about
> the future of the collection and  the staff remain unanswered.
>
> Has this already been announced on SEELANGS or on other lists?   (I was in
> Russia most of the summer, not checking my email)  Any response from the
> profession yet?   Following the recent attempt to close the
> European Reading Room at the Library of Congress, this is a terrible blow
> to
> our profession and a very unpleasant trend.
>
> Tony
>
> --
> Anthony Anemone
> Chair & Associate Provost of Foreign Languages
> The New School
> 212-229-5676 ex. 2355
>
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