Free Library of Philadelphia's Refurbished Music Room

Photo source:  Philly Improv

Link to April 1 Philadelphia Inquirer article, "Central library tunes up for expansion".

Excerpt:   One morning not too long ago, staff arrived for work in the music room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia to find that a lighting fixture had dropped from the ceiling and was dangling in midair, a pile of rubble beneath it.
Eighteen months later, a new fixture is in - casting light on a substantially renovated music library with freshened ambitions.

With almost $500,000 from the city and private sources, highly detailed plasterwork was redone, new lighting was fabricated, and more sophisticated computers and listening stations were installed. The entire room - the city's only full-scale music library not part of a school - was reorganized to give the public greater access to reference books, recordings, music scores, and more.

The net effect is a brighter, more highly functioning library, boosting the department's ability to mine its treasures with an assist from technology.

The tune up is for this.

$175,000,000 fundraising goal for Central Library renovations