Hoping it might just be a mistake ?

Hoping it might just be a mistake ?

whoa missed this what happened ??

omg not as excited as i am to be there! so grateful for this opportunity to be with you all 💙🎉💙🎉

for those who, like me, missed it yesterday. the quotation marks at the end, the semicolons. it's a poem

vaguely sentient 😂

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I always go to NYPL when I'm in town, especially 42nd St and Lincoln Center. Chicago PL's Vivian Harsh Research Collection is absolutely incredible, and more people should know about it www.chipublib.org/vivian-g-har...

It’s an amazing place. I should add that I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, had no discipline, & was flailing around / ordering the weirdest + most random stuff! But I could see how somebody *else* could’ve done something great with it all— I just wrote a shitty paper about Lolita!

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I hear that, and also appreciate the dilemmas that arise with universal access ie that you do have to put in certain procedures to ensure safety of collections, logistical feasibility, etc. I think when I was doing work there c. 2001/2002 you had to just fill out paper slip slips & wait for hours!

Yes, it’s true that many universities allow non-university people to use their materials! In a just world all of them would

Holy shit I had no idea— thank you for this

By which I mean privatization, “streamlining,” “optimization,” etc., & ultimately closure. B/c these spaces, & the practices they make possible, are so gloriously unresponsive to the logic of efficiency. When we win there will be universal access to human knowledge and the time for all to pursue it

Would love to know what other gorgeous spaces of public knowledge-making people have been in and loved, and that mean something to them. For the exact reasons noted above these are all spaces that are now being marked for extermination.

Yes! This is hugely important and beautiful too! A place to just — be

The European Reading Room, Library of Congress, is another one I’ve been in before. It can take your breath away, the beauty of the democratic ideal of general public education