Making collections come alive : exhibitions, conferences and publications in the New York Public Library

Exhibitions, conférences and publications rank the Central research leaders. They reach widely beyond the traditional scope of library users by sharing the results of scholarship on a variety of subjects with a broad public. At the core of the New York Public Library's strategy to attract badly needed financial support from both public and private sectors, they are mostly funded by private sources at no cost for the rest of the library. They have nonetheless managed so far to shelter their democratic ideals form commercial pressures and maintain their ethnics at a high standard. The publications office, however, lately raised a sensitive issue by granting the library's image to a line of popular reference books devised outside of it, for the purpose of devoting the yielded royalties to editions under its own imprint.
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