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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

There's even already a difference between if you make one in Amsterdam and in Rotterdam,...

There's even already a difference between if you make one in Amsterdam and in Rotterdam, there's even a bigger difference if you make one in Scandinavia or we also worked on the library in Athens

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There's even already a difference
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between if you make one in Amsterdam and in Rotterdam,
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there's even a bigger difference if you make one in Scandinavia
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or we also worked on the library in Athens.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
01:25:21
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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Movie Summary

A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
For instance, in Europe, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
For instance, in Europe,
That for me libraries are not about books, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
That for me libraries are not about books,
No, libraries are about people - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:15
No, libraries are about people
It's very much about learning, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
It's very much about learning,
And so libraries are, they're not only... - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
And so libraries are, they're not only...
There are cultural importance, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
There are cultural importance,
It has... here it's a little bit different, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:13
It has... here it's a little bit different,
Uh, so it's very much important - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
Uh, so it's very much important
Um, I think what is maybe also important, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
Um, I think what is maybe also important,
It's a city archive, it's the circulating library. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
It's a city archive, it's the circulating library.
I'm dreaming of, especially if I think of this building, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
I'm dreaming of, especially if I think of this...
Maybe when I did design the... the... - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Maybe when I did design the... the...
Famous library we did in Delft, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Famous library we did in Delft,
It's in a library for the technical university in Delft, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
It's in a library for the technical university in...
And we, when we did the design in 1991, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:13
And we, when we did the design in 1991,
It's totally because people, they still think of libraries - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
It's totally because people, they still think of...
A lot of people have no awareness - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
A lot of people have no awareness
That will probably be the center of the catalog... - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
That will probably be the center of the catalog...
Plus, we only got halfway... - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Plus, we only got halfway...
That needs to be, like, life-sized. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
That needs to be, like, life-sized.