Sentence examples for main research library from inspiring English sources

"The main research library was the street, the subway," Mr. Bart said.

The collections of those libraries would have been moved to the main research library, on Fifth Avenue, and elsewhere.

The collection of the main research library has been compared to that of the Library of Congress and to that of Harvard's Widener Library.

The Johns Hopkins effort, called the Comprehensive Access to Printed Materials project, was driven by a desire to hook up the institution's main research library on its Homewood campus in Baltimore with a shelving facility about six miles away in another part of the city, Moravia Park.

The city's main research library, in other words, would no longer have exclusively been a research library at all, nor would its building, which was slated for a major overhaul by the architect Norman Foster, have looked like the one that generations of New Yorkers have known and loved.

Two points to add to Edmund Morris's eloquent critique of the proposed transformation of the main research library at 42nd Street in Manhattan into a Norman Foster "something for everyone" architectural showpiece, while the core research collection is moved off-site to New Jersey: First, research is never as simple as ordering books in advance.

The main entrance of the research library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street was named Astor Hall in her honor.

This has the virtue of allowing the library to sell the site of its current lending library, at Fifth Avenue and 40th Street, but the vice of diluting the nature of the main branch as a research library.

Very likely, fewer people than occupy the research library's main reading room on a busy afternoon will live in the luxury condos.

The plan has raised concerns among librarians about their jobs and among library patrons, who fear that creating a circulating library in the main branch, now a noncirculating research library, would result in fewer books being available.

Though the Metropolitan has several libraries, the Watson is its main research arm and one of the world's largest art libraries.