Ed Bridges wrote:
 
>     A question to Robbin, do you know if they're in fact opening the
>library up for public use at the Guggenheim, with a library staff?  If this
>is true (which it seems to be from what Janine said above), it seems the
>Guggenheim is in some deep water, financially.
 
Sounded like they are planning to disburse the library among curatorial
departments. Seems to me they would still need some kind of librarian, perhaps
on the order of what Chiat/Day Advertising is planning to do in their NY
offices (they've been advertising for a "virtual librarian"). Since I've never
used the Gug's library I have no idea what it contains and at first I
thought the closing pertained to the small reading room they reopened
after the renovations. I don't know any more. The Gug is very tight-
lipped about what they do because they are constantly trashed in the
press by the likes of Hilton Kramer about their "creative financing".
Some of it is deserved, some isn't. I think the economic climate has
caused Director Krens to pull back from some of his more elaborate
plans, causing his detrators to gloat in public.
 
I'd like to know more about the library, though. Anybody out there ever
used it?
 
Robbin Murphy
NYU/Museum Studies
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