Library on Crack
As with any Ludwig Mies van der Rohe building, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library runs on perfect symmetry. If something goes wrong, like a dead light bulb or a broken window, it immediately sticks out.
In September, Eric Coard, the chief business officer with D.C. Public Library, noticed a crack in a window on the flagship library’s fourth floor. The window, located at the end of a corridor, faces 9th Street NW. The crack, he says, was 12 inches long and looked “just like a snake.” “I thought it posed a danger,” he explains, adding that the glass was promptly removed and replaced with wood. The problem is that window has remained boarded up. Coard says a finalized contract to fix the window should be imminent.
“It’s gone on a little longer than I would have liked,” Coard admits. “We’re just trying to get the window replaced now.”
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December 20th, 2007 at 10:11 am
GUESS WHAT ELSE THE MANAGEMENT AT MLK LIBRARY HAS DONE ? GOTTEN RID OF THEIR BIG COLLECTION OF RENTAL VIDEOS - MOSTLY OBSCURE ONES LIKE SILENTS, FOREIGN, INDIE, ARTHOUSE, DOCUMENTARIES. MUCH OF IT NOT ON DVD YET. THEY CLOSED THEIR A/V DEPT. LAST WEEK, MOVED THEIR RENTAL DVDS & BOOKS ON CD/TAPE (STILL AVAILABLE FOR CHECK-OUT FOR 3 WEEKS) ELSEWHERE IN THE BUILDING & SAID THE VIDEOS WILL NO LONGER BE CIRCULATED (NOT SURE IF THEY WILL BE SOLD). IT WAS GOOD STUFF - I SOMETIMES RENTED OUT A FEW OUT OF CURIOSITY.
THIS IS A GREAT LOSS, & THE HEADS OF MLK LIBRARY SHOULD BE ASHAMED !!
December 20th, 2007 at 11:37 am
The last time I visited the library, the elevator was slow. So I tried to take the stairs. A homeless guy was shooting heroin in the stairwell. He yelled at me, as if I was bothering HIM.
Rhee, please clone yourself and run the library system too. Clean house.