{"id":960,"date":"2011-10-13T05:33:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T09:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/?p=960"},"modified":"2013-03-17T20:42:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:42:40","slug":"the-future-of-the-library-expressed-in-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2011\/10\/13\/the-future-of-the-library-expressed-in-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of the library, expressed in sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Petrus Spronk, \u201cArchitectural Fragment\u201d, 1992. Photo \u00a9 2005 Robert Laddish (www.laddish.net<\/a>), used by permission.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I’ve just been\u00a0at the conference in honor of the 30th anniversary<\/a>\u00a0of the University of Sao Paulo Integrated Library System (SIBi USP)<\/a>. David Palmer<\/a>, one of the speakers at the conference, used in his presentation a picture of a wonderful sculpture that I had never seen before, which turned out to be a public art piece at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia by\u00a0Petrus Spronk<\/a>\u00a0entitled “Architectural Fragment”. I place a couple of pictures of it here in honor of Spronk’s 72nd birthday, which happens to be today<\/a>. You can find more images here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Petrus Spronk, “Architectural Fragment”, 1992. Photo by flickr user madam3181<\/a>, used by permission (CC by-nc-nd).<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Petrus Spronk, \u201cArchitectural Fragment\u201d, 1992. Photo \u00a9 2005 Robert Laddish (www.laddish.net), used by permission. I’ve just been\u00a0at the conference in honor of the 30th anniversary\u00a0of the University of Sao Paulo Integrated Library System (SIBi USP). David Palmer, one of the speakers at the conference, used in his presentation a picture of a wonderful sculpture that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2780,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-scholarly-communication"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5pLfN-fu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":532,"url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2010\/08\/06\/how-much-does-a-cope-compliant-open-access-fund-cost\/","url_meta":{"origin":960,"position":0},"title":"How much does a COPE-compliant open-access fund cost?","author":"Stuart Shieber","date":"Friday, August 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Tightrope walker, sculpture, Berlin, 2008. 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