Battle for future of the New York Public Library hits the courts
Now it’s a fight.
The scholars-vs-bookworms battle over the future of the main branch of the New York Public Library has already raged for more than a year in high-toned op-eds and essays, and now it’s spilling over into the courts.
A group of academics and preservationists has filed a lawsuit to stop the removal of 3 million non-circulating research books from the seven floors of structural steel shelves lovingly known as “the stacks.”