Comments on: MLK library in DC when it was new http://www.librarian.net/stax/2215/mlk-library-in-dc-when-it-was-new/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: kati http://www.librarian.net/stax/2215/mlk-library-in-dc-when-it-was-new/comment-page-1/#comment-112372 kati Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:16:36 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2215/mlk-library-in-dc-when-it-was-new/#comment-112372 I have tried all I could to get in contact the Save DC Libraries people and got nothing. Regarding your photos, you should have stopped in the children's room. It's the best room in the library! I have tried all I could to get in contact the Save DC Libraries people and got nothing.
Regarding your photos, you should have stopped in the children’s room. It’s the best room in the library!

]]> By: libwitch http://www.librarian.net/stax/2215/mlk-library-in-dc-when-it-was-new/comment-page-1/#comment-112258 libwitch Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:59:16 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2215/mlk-library-in-dc-when-it-was-new/#comment-112258 I stopped into the MLK Library quite a few times when I was at ALA last year, and the impression I got (and perhaps this is sad enough) is that they were doing a lot with very little - much as many inner urban libraries. The grand open space on the first floor struck me as odd - I am sure it is conceived as a meeting place (there was a grad piano in that area), but it seems to be not very convenient! I stopped into the MLK Library quite a few times when I was at ALA last year, and the impression I got (and perhaps this is sad enough) is that they were doing a lot with very little – much as many inner urban libraries.

The grand open space on the first floor struck me as odd – I am sure it is conceived as a meeting place (there was a grad piano in that area), but it seems to be not very convenient!

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