A New Letter from Byron to Count Alborghetti

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-164
Author(s):  
RACHEL RETICA
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
York Public Library ◽  
New York Public Library ◽  
The Many ◽  
Papal Legate

This article introduces a newly re-discovered letter, now in the Pforzheimer collection at the New York Public Library, that Byron sent to Count Giuseppe Alborghetti on 11 December 1820. His letter is quick, business-like, and urgent, one of the many that sped between Byron and the Count throughout this period. Alborghetti was Byron’s neighbour in Ravenna and the secretary to the Papal Legate of Lower Romagna. Alborghetti was a political ally but not a revolutionary, a reader of Byron’s poetry, a confidante, and maybe also a friend. Their correspondence spotlights Byron in one of his most complex roles: as a political actor at once naïve and savvy, firing off reports, questions, and opinions on political affairs that entangled him, involved him, and yet found him always at a remove.

The Science, Industry and Business Library of the New York Public Library: A High-Technology Research Centre for High-Volume Public Use

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-62
Author(s):  
Kristin McDonough
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Public Library ◽  
High Technology ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
York Public Library ◽  
New York Public Library

In 1996, its centenary year, the New York Public Library opened its Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) in a former department store in mid-town Manhattan, occupying 160,000 square feet of usable floor space. The building, which has received six awards, is designed to be both attractive and highly functional. The $100 million project was funded by a combination of private and government funds. The concept is of a specialized high technology research centre with unparallelled older and current print collections (1.2 million books and serials) and access to electronic resources, which also incorporates a 50,000-item circulating library of popular print, audiovisual and multimedia materials. All of the resources are available to the public at no charge. Much of the collection is on open access. There are several professionally staffed information service points. The provision of extensive training sessions is proving to be an outstanding success, more than 20,000 people having registered since SIBL opened. A three-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has enabled SIBL to train information professionals in the three crucial areas of technological competence, customer service and professional development.

Dieter Hacker's Mask for Timon of Athens

1995 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-90
Author(s):  
GJW
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Stage Design ◽  
York Public Library ◽  
New York Public Library ◽  
Lincoln Center ◽  
The One ◽  
Timon Of Athens

For the well-received 1990 Bochum Schauspielhaus production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, Dieter Hacker, one of Germany's leading artists and stage designers, created fifty-four masks, including the one on the opposite page for Timon himself (Figure I). This mask, Hacker's designs, and photographs of the production were seen in the recent exhibition “Contemporary Stage Design from German and Austria” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, presented in collaboration with the Goethe House and German Cultural Center in New York.

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