Bradley J. Betlach, one of those lawyers, is in the process of closing on a two-bedroom unit on the top floor of a former book repository that includes a private rooftop deck.
Mark Rothenberg, the library's Long Island history authority, is writing a book chronicling the book repository's past.
Or treat it as another piece of disposable history?" Dallas has made a museum of the book repository from which Lee Harvey Oswald is believed to have shot President John F. Kennedy.
Four years ago, realizing that many of the books were disintegrating, Mr. Lansky set out to digitize the collection to preserve it and make some of the hardest-to-find titles available beyond a few rare book repositories.
Basbanes makes brief stops at famous book repositories in New York, London and Milan as well as more obscure destinations like the chained books at the cathedral library at Hereford, England, where "some 1,500 books stand upright... each volume firmly secured to an iron rod".
However, the new £26m books repository, which will eventually hold 8.4m of the least frequently requested books and periodicals, is the key to unlocking a transformation of the Bodleian's famous buildings in Oxford.
In due course, he was joined by Jennifer Dziura (pronounced di-ZOOR-uh), mistress of ceremonies and keeper of the sacred book, a repository of often arcane, outré, maddeningly complicated words, most of which should really not be in Webster's Third but somehow are.
Such a book or set of books would be a singular repository of cinematic wisdom and an enduring work, a parallel creation, by one of the greatest modern artists.
The other approach views a book collection less as a testimony to the past than as a repository for the future; it's where you put the books you intend to read.
