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Volume 24, Number 2, Summer 2017



                                    Books&People



IN THIS ISSUE                       A Trip to the Stacks



Summer Reading                      by Carolyn Waters, Head Librarian

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                                    A short while ago, I found member writer Susan Cheever wandering about the

                                    Library and looking a little bit like she had lost something. I asked if everything was

                                    all right. “Yes, but I’m looking for inspiration. If I don’t know what to write next, the

                                    answer is in the stacks.”



     Spring Events and Awards

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   Remembering

Christopher Gray



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                                    There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t hear an impassioned paean to our book

                                    stacks. And more often than not, it will be from one of our member writers. The

                                    New York Society Library is not a research library, at least not in the same way that

                                    other institutions that collect primary source materials are. But as the oldest library

                                    in New York City, with a justifiable reputation as a real reader’s collection, our

                                    bookshelves hold incomparable riches that are rarely found in gloriously browsable

                                    open book stacks. All of us, whether we’re writers or readers, have stories about that

                                    accidental but fortuitous discovery on the shelf, the hidden gem sitting one inch

                                    away from the book you were actually looking for. That kind of serendipity just isn’t

                                    possible without open stacks.
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