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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:57:37 -0500

Someone suggested: HAHAHA! "How about Lechemere … it’s not even a STORE anymore, and there is a t-stop named after it."

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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:01:24 -0500

LOL - "Less stabby" - this is a really well written article. - Derek.

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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:26:44 -0500

The Boston Public Library or Copley Library T stop is a good idea. Tourism is an important part of the local economy. T stops named in this manner improve the navigability of the transit system.

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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:25:18 -0500

Boston Public Library board chairman Jeff Rudman http://bpl.org/general/trustees/trustees.htm should advocate for improving the navigability of the BPL buildings floors, department, collections. Entering the buildings there need to be building directories indicating a) floor by floor, b) room by room, the locations of c) departments, the names of the people who are the d) curatorial heads of the departments and e) the locations of collections. The library graphics at http://bpl.org/guides/plan.htm need a redo by a graphics experts like Edward Tufte http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei see also http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex Locations inside the Boston Public Library buildings need to be renamed and graphics around the floors of the BPL buildings need to be designed so people can move about more easily. A lot of the battle at BPL is how to figure out where are the parts of the collections that interest you and where are the BPL people who are the curatorial heads of departments and where are the experienced subject specialists of the BPL who have their own expertise with their favorite parts of the collections. Often BPL people are temporarily reassigned to other departments during staffing shortages or holidays. Two listings are needed on the Boston Public Library website... Listings of BPL's experienced subject specialists and their expertise with their favorite parts of the collections. Listings floor by floor, room by room where the departments, the collections and the names curatorial heads of departments. Boston Public Library curatorial department heads should be given more credit for their good works and more recognition individually as curators. For example at the Museum of Fine Arts the MFA curators get recognition individually there and in the media. What can be done about the Boston Public Library bureaucracy?... For more details next time you contact the lib ask for The Real Sheet newsletter of the BPLPSA Boston Public Library Staff Association http://bplpsa.org/ see also http://www.local1930.org These organizations have interesting critical analyses of the kinds of institutional bureaucratic practices. We have theater critics, we have restaurant critics, we have motion picture critics, we have art critics. We need more critical reviews of our libraries and more critical reviews of the curatorial departments of our libraries.

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Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:26:43 -0500

BU East, BU Central, BU West: HELL

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Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:05:15 -0500

Seriously: Why bother renaming anything? What's it going to do? I can't see what would change, except the signs, which would cost money. Couldn't that go to something, I dunno. Useful? Relevant? Not seriously: Alewife > Parking Lot

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Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:13:37 -0500

Haymarket -> Mike's Pastry. Yep.

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Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:06:34 -0500

Harvard -> Ivytrash

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Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:03:20 -0500

Um, does Menino realize that the whole area is called "Copley Square" and not "Area next to the BPL"?

Bostonist: Next Stop: Snotty Yuptown!

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