[MGSA-L] Comments on the Ex-Libris Documentary / Greek Libraries etc [in greek]eekK})Greek)

June Samaras kalamosbooks at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 18:24:44 PDT 2018


>
> What can a library do in the 21st century?
>
> FRIDAY, 16 MARCH 2018 00:00
> SEE BELOW
>

below some preliminary paragraphs of an article about libraries and their
> future
>
> JS
> ----------------
>
> On the occasion of the documentary "Ex libris: The New York Public
> Library" by Frederic Weisman, which was screened on March 10th at the 20th
> Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
>
> By Eliana Chourmouziadou
>
> As a secondary school student in the distant 1970s, I was fortunate to
> attend a school that had a library, a scrumptious luxury for Greece at that
> time, as it is for today. My relationship with this library could itself be
> the subject of another text. Without it, then I realized it was my future.
> There I also acquired the kind of knowledge that is indelibly written on
> the hard disk of memory, unlike what I have learned in the school classes,
> most of which have long been forgotten. But with my graduation from high
> school, my contact with libraries was virtually ending. Since then, all the
> books I've read have been bought or, at most, borrowed from friends. While
> I was already familiar with the environment and use, the ability to easily
> access a good lending library had disappeared, and that did not change at
> all in the passage of time. I am even wondering if anyone in this country
> is accustomed to resorting to libraries for a purpose other than academic
> study and research. I also wonder whether this indicates, in addition to
> the lack of relevant cultivation, a general depreciation of the state's
> offer to its citizens, which we hope will correct the new National Library
> at SNFCC. We do not see shelves of loaded books, but faces watching the
> speaker, while behind them the rotating door of the entrance turns every so
> often and the pitch of voices and voices dissipates in the space.
>
> All this warns us that the library is a living and, by extension, evolving
> organization. Ex Libris: The New York Library These are some of the first
> thoughts I made when I watched the beasty New York Public Library in the
> documentary by Frederic Weissman Ex libris, which was screened at this
> year's Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, and will soon be distributed also
> in Athens. With the equally brutal duration of 3 hours and 17 minutes, the
> documentary covers all the multifarious activities of this library, founded
> in 1895, and began to take its present form in the first decade of the 20th
> century when its central building was inaugurated Fifth Avenue and its
> first branches were established.
>
> If the length of the documentary is great, the scope of activities
> included in the NYPL operation, as its acronym, is equally extensive. In
> addition to borrowing or fieldwork in print and / or digital form, these
> activities also include the preservation of manuscript and archive
> collections, the observance of a collection of images classified by topic
> (eg dogs in action), meetings with writers and artists (see, among other
> things, Richard Nokkin, Elvis Costello and Patty Smith), seminars and
> lessons for acquiring skills that the current era recognizes as necessary
> (eg behavior during an interview (excellent exchange of views on Eros
> during cholera), lectures and discussions on a literally unlimited variety
> of topics, educational programs for preschool and school age children,
> English lessons for people who have another mother tongue (in this case the
> Chinese of Chinatown), art exhibitions, concerts and screenings of films,
> and many more, all  which make up an impressive and self-evident list (it
> is possible to organize and fitness classes for seniors? But it is).
> Weseman does not want to miss any aspects of the work being done here.
>
> <snip>
>
> For the rest of the analysis and some comments on libraries in Greece
>
> USE THIS LINK
>
> https://www.bookpress.gr/politismos/sinema/ex-libris-
> new-york-public-library-frederick-wiseman?utm_source=
> Newsletter&utm_medium=email
>
> June S
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