Australia: State Library of New South Wales Will Get $15 Million Facelift to Help Transform into ‘Global Cultural Destination’
Note: $15 Million Australia Dollars = $11.37/USD
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
Millionaire industrialist Michael Crouch said the library’s Mitchell Wing reading room had been a good place to study even though his endeavours did not produce stellar results.
“I studied here for two years,” he said. “I failed every exam.”
Crouch, the founder of Zip Industries, is one of the major donors who have contributed $15 million towards the creation of new galleries and a learning centre to be named after John B. Fairfax.
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The State Library holds more than 6 million items, valued at $3.15 billion, including 100,000 paintings, 1.5 million photographs, 13 kilometres of manuscripts, 2.5 million books and more than 24,000 maps.
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See Also: State Library of NSW Vision and Master Plan
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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