The Reborn Morgan Library

[Axel W. Anderson V]

Thanks for this link.  The collections page is amazing.  Imagine
having a whole library scanned and able to be zoomed in on like
that...   Anyway, I'm moving to NYC in a week and this seems like a
great place to check out, and it's free on Fridays!

- Axel

On 7/29/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Morgan Library & Museum, in New York
> City--recently reopened after a $106-million
> renovation--has always been the museum to visit if you
> lust after books.
>
> [...]
>
> ... the museum has made sure to include lots of
> technology of the here and now. The Medieval and
> Renaissance manuscripts are in a suitably dark room,
> but the clean well-lit place for the more modern
> literary manuscripts and scores upstairs may attract a
> younger generation of visitors—particularly if the
> collection of Thomas Pynchon's letters is ever
> displayed (and it won't be during Pynchon's lifetime).
>
> The Morgan has developed an excellent website at
> www.themorgan.org. It allows you to zoom through and
> search the collection, and the museum now has several
> computer stations that let you browse the website at
> your leisure....
>
> http://www.americanheritage.com/travel/articles/web/20060728-john-pierpont-morgan-library-charles-mckim-renzo-piano-manuscripts-thomas-pynchon-museum.shtml
>
> The Morgan Curtails Access to a Trove Of Pynchon
> Letters
>
> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E17FA3C5C0C728EDDAA0894D0494D81
>
> The crying over Lot 49 of Thomas Pynchon's letters
>
> http://www.salon.com/media/1998/03/10media.html
>
> The Morgan Library
>
> http://www.morganlibrary.org/index.html
>
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