Old friends and colleagues represent all three of my lives—MIT, Duke, and the New York Public Libraries.

麻省理工学院、杜克大学、纽约公共图书馆的老朋友和同事陪我度过了前半生。

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Everyone knows libraries are not JST about books anymore, but no one knows it better that the women at the main information booth of the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.

人人都知道图书馆再也不是只有书了，但若非纽约公共图书馆(位于第42大街和第五大街之间)总问询处的女人们，没人会了解得更详细。

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Last week, Penguin announced a pilot program to allow public libraries in New York City and Brooklyn to lend out its e-books via 3M's Cloud Drive service.

CNN: E-book lending: Your public library's best kept secret?

Like the Queens and Brooklyn library systems, the New York Public Library, too, is creating more public spaces in new and renovated branch libraries and at the Schwarzman building.

WSJ: Libraries Rethink Their Role in City

Individual libraries sometimes received grants to scan specific collections in 2001, the New York Public Library used federal money to digitize a substantial portion of the collection at its Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture but a comprehensive effort seemed inconceivable.

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