Re Warwick Public Library: Your expertise needed -Dave

Thank you Dave for your reply. It is not quite an aesthetic 

    judgment - my loathing for the " renovated " Providence Public Library.

    I miss the " old " building - just the way it was. The facade on Washington

    has that delightful classic appeal. But the building's interior was

    redesigned and rearranged by somebody with no feeling or love for

    libraries.

           It use to be a pleasant place to browse in . Now it is wretchedly

    cramped . The pleasantness of the old order is a just a memory.

          Even the location of the rest rooms is a horror. The faces of the

    " help " - there are no more LIBRARIANS - reflect the wretchedness of

    the " improvements " .

            Walking into a library should be like walking into an old

    cathedral . I like all that " useless space " at the new Warwick Public

    Library. And plenty of  tables , desks, and  comfortable chairs there.

            I cannot judge the Warwick Public Library as  architect .. but

    as PATRON , I say THANK GOD !

             Is there any possibility of getting anything like it in

    Providence ?  

                                   Thank you   -ron

Your expertise needed -Dave

    Date: Thu, 29 Oct

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         Ron - I haven't seen the new Warwick library, or even a picture of it, 

    even though its architect said he would send me a fax of it. So I cannot 

    judge. But I think that if there were any chance it would be good enough to be 

    within shouting distance of the PPL (on Washington Street, not the "new" 

    addition on Empire), then I'd have been out there in a flash, covering it more 

    closely than the hip-squeezing jeans of a brainless enticing bunny. As to 

    whether it works better or worse, as a library, than the PPL, I would have no 

    idea. How did you arrive at your judgment? 

         - Dave 

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    Date: 28 Oct 98 11:01:29

    From:"Ronald Ruggieri" <ar803@osfn.rhilinet.gov>

    To: david_brussat@ProJo.COM

    Subject: Your expertise needed -Dave

    Reply-to: ar803@osfn.rhilinet.gov

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           Good morning Dave . Briefly -if you can check it out - I would

    appreciate your respected opinion on new Warwick Public Library.

       You may be interested  in the opinion of Louis J. Pugliese who

    described it as an " artistic failure " in the Oct. 27 Warwick Beacon

    ( Letters page 7 ).

           Let me just say this for now : Compared to the Providence Public

    Library on Empire St., the new library in Warwick is Heaven !

                           Have a nice day     Ron Ruggieri  ( 732-0215 )