An iPad-toting blogger himself, Mr. Medvedev has spent much of his time in office promoting technological modernization, and sharply criticized the recent attack on Livejournal in his own blog post.
The comptroller's office, which could benefit from additional modernization, must be pared down very carefully, given its mission of protecting the city's financial health.
Others turned their anger on Mr. Medvedev, who, during his three and a half years in office, has put forward an ambitious modernization agenda and critiqued some of his predecessor's policies.
The new office would be part of a modernization plan that relocate all operation to Lincoln and close the Peoria and Springfield offices.
Modernization took place in 1926.
The cafe, a large bookstore and remodeled ticket offices are part of the museum's attempt at modernization.
The $9.8 million renovation project at the Central Library is part of an overall 10-year, $290 million systemwide expansion and modernization, financed chiefly by $98 million from the office of the borough president, Helen Marshall; $83.5 million from the Queens members of the City Council; and $45.3 million from the office of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
The central bank, which has 43 check-processing offices nationwide, also began a nationwide computer modernization project last year.
Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Schoenfeld also introduced computerized ticket sales to an industry that had resisted modernization, and linked the box offices to outlets in other cities.
Fyodor Krasheninnikov, the head of the Institute for the Development and Modernization of Public Relations, emphasized, from his office in Yekaterinburg, that it was "impossible to achieve this inside Russia. . . .
