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Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn
Historical Society to merge
Brooklyn Public Library’s main branch. Photo by Paul Martinka
BY BEN VERDE
This is one for the history
books!
The Brooklyn Public
Library and the Brooklyn
Historical Society
announced on Thursday
that the two iconic borough
institutions will
merge together, bringing
an unmatched catalog
of Kings County lore
under one unifi ed umbrella.
“By combining with
the Brooklyn Public Library,
the Brooklyn Historical
Society immediately
extends our reach
to every neighborhood
in the borough,” said
Brooklyn Historical Society
President Deborah
Schwartz. “This partnership
also provides BHS
with fi nancial stability,
professional resources
and, and through our
combined programming,
an enhancement and expansion
of everything
we do.”
Under the scheme,
the lender will serve as
the parent institution of
the Historical Society
— assuming care of all
of its archives and programming,
as well as it
landmarked Pierrepont
Street building,
The archives of the
two institutions will be
combined into one, with
regular library-goers
now having easy access
to the society’s collection
of rare Brooklyn-related
texts and artifacts.
The book repository’s
massive collection
of over 200,000 photos,
books, maps, and newspapers
of historic Kings
County will now be
housed in the Society’s
archives, which the library
says will free up
much-needed space from
public programing.
The library’s president
lauded the merger
as a perfect match that
would prove to be a huge
benefi t to their shared
missions.
“Together our institutions
hold important
collections of material,
manuscripts, and artifacts,
vital to our shared
history that we are committed
to make accessible
for everyone,” said
Linda Johnson.
The Brooklyn Historical
Society, which was
founded in 1863 and has
been housed in the same
Pierrepont Street building
since 1881, recently
opened its fi rst satellite
location in a Dumbo waterfront
warehouse —
which Johnson indicated
in an interview with the
New York Times will remain
there until 2021, after
which the use of the
space remains to be determined.
The news comes after
it was revealed that the
library faces a whopping
$247 Million backlog in
overdue repairs.
The two institutions
are reportedly seeking
city funding to fi nalize
the merger, but do not
need city approval.
This isn’t the fi rst
time the two institutions
have partnered, such
as when the society donated
the former mascot
of the Brooklyn Daily
Eagle, and held a contest
to come up with a new
name for the bird.
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