Former Brooklyn Public Library Director Ginnie Cooper has been at the helm of the DC Library System for one year, and things are working better there. When the elegant Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library was built by top architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the late sixties (it opened in 1972 after his death), things started breaking down all of a sudden. For many years, in good times or bad, the library seemed to get the short end of the stick.
“When there was a lot of money in the D.C. treasury, the library was the last to get its share,” said Jim Lewis, who has served on the library’s board since 2002. “But boy, oh boy, when the treasury was close to empty, the library was the first to be cut.” Story from the Washington Post.
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