(
wnyc.org, 10/7/2011)
Excerpt:
Like most New Yorkers, Mikhail Baryshnikov had a bit of a storage problem. But unlike most New Yorkers, he had options that didn’t include orange storage lockers.
So when the dancer and his wife were getting ready to move, Baryshnikov donated 35 boxes filled with videos, photos, letters and documents -- his archive -- to the New York Public Library.
While most artists donate or sell their archives near the end of their careers, the 63-year-old is still working as a dancer, actor and founder of the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan. But space issues brought this collection to the library a little earlier than usual.
"People have so much more stuff than they used to," said Jan Schmidt, the curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division for the New York Public Library. "Fifty years ago if someone had a couple of films, that was a lot. Today people have hundreds, if not thousands of videos of their work."
Baryshnikov’s archives include nearly 700 videos, in which he can be seen practicing as a young boy, doing exercises at the Vaganova School in the 1960s, and after defecting from the Soviet Union in 1974, working with great choreographers like George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Martha Graham.
Letter to the editor:
Westerville library deserves OK on levy. (Columbus
Dispatch, 10/17/2011)
Euclid City Hall and Library go Green with a state-of-the-art solar panel project. (Cleveland
Plain Dealer, 10/23/2011)
Excerpt: Euclid City Hall and Euclid Public Library have partnered to install photovoltaic(PV) solar panels on the buildings’ rooftops in one of the largest joint public projects in the State of Ohio. The solar panels will help meet the electrical needs of City Hall and the Library.
The City and the Library have worked with Ohio Cooperative Solar, an employee-owned energy cooperative supported by the Cleveland Foundation, and have leased the building rooftops to OCS for the installation of the solar systems. The city will then purchase electricity from OCS.
“We are proud to partner with OCS in a cooperative effort to produce clean renewable solar energy and to create jobs in the Cleveland area,” stated Euclid Mayor Bill Cervenik. “With utility costs anticipated to continue to increase each year, over the life of the contract the energy produced by the solar systems will cost less than that provided by the utility company. This will result in annual savings to both the Library and the City.”
