Talk:53rd Street Library

Plural?

Should "Winnie the Pooh dolls" be changed to "doll" in the context of that sentence in the introduction? For now I'll change it to "...Winnie the Pooh dolls including his friends Kanga, Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet..." Plese let me now if I am mistaken in doing so.--RainbowWerewolf (talk) 23:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

2011 sources

• http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110316/REAL_ESTATE/110319909 (the reference in the article needs work)
• http://newyork.nearsay.com/nyc/hells-kitchen-midtown/real-estate-donnell-library-branch-sold-hotel
• http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/stalled-plan-for-donnell-library-site-may-be-moving-again/?partner=rss&emc=rss (skim shows the article will benefit from attention to this NYT coverage)

--P64 (talk) 01:20, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Main Article Needs Improvement

This article is largely devoid of anything of substantial importance regarding the NYPL, Donnell Library Center. Among missing details which bear on its longstanding importance to Mid-Manhattan is a description of its many key public services, some of them quite unusual. The large business and media oriented reference collection was intensively used as a vital resource by the midtown business and media communities. The Donnell Film Library had the largest free circulating collection of 16mm films in North America. It was an important collection that specialized in documentary film and nascent video art. It featured free individual viewing on demand on premises as well as programming significant cultural events for the large Donnell auditorium. Many of these events were planned in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art. The Donnell was also home to SADPO/LIONS, a department which helped usher the Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation/NYPL among other important NYC organizations into the digital age. These are a few things that I can think of off hand. Considering its status, location and mission, I believe there is no surfeit of documented information within the NYPL system to provide an excellent basis for improving this article.

I understand that NYC is a big place and this article is ranked of low importance. Gratefully the Young Adult Center, the foreign language collection, Ezekial Donnell, the Children's Room and even Winnie the Pooh are mentioned. However, it does seem that Winnie and the construction of condos on the site are given disproportionate attention in the article as it now stands. For fifty years the Donnell not only served a vast and important Manhattan community, it came to have a reputation and significance that ranged far beyond the borders of NYC. BellwetherToday (talk) 05:29, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

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New library

The new library is much smaller, though pleasant. Ought it have its own article, or should this is one move to the new name? Something else? 65.88.88.93 (talk) 17:32, 6 July 2016 (UTC)