Talk:Boston Public Library

message: izzysanime wrote the following in the body of the main article. Perhaps (s)he wanted to do it here. Cema 21:34, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: One of the features that the Boston Public Library offered first is FreeWi-Fi wireless internet.  It is offered throughout the entire library giving access to anyone who has wireless enabled laptop to access the biggest library in the world, the internet.  Many large libraries now offer Wi-Fi, but not as fast and reliable.  --izzysanime 01:59, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Wifi

message: Library lovers can be uncritical in their affection for the institution. There's another way to be an aficionado of our Boston Public Library. Developing a critique of what needs improving. BPLers who staff the lib and BPLusers attempting to navigate the buildings' floors lament the lack of a good directory at the entrance that lists the lib's departments, locations and names and/or titles of department heads. dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu 9 December 2005
:Wikipedia is not a forum for publishing personal opinions, but if there are published or well-known criticisms, those would be welcome additions. - Beland 03:07, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism

message: How do you get http://overdrive.bpl.org fixed so that it's accessible to Boston Public Libraries' Mac users!?... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Donwarnersaklad (talk • contribs) 05:09, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't feed the troll.  121a0012 01:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments directed at the library

message: Although I try to avoid grand claims, the BPL does happen to be the largest, by far, library in the US. This changed from "one of the largest" to "the largest". This is measured by volumes in its collection, which is typically how libraries are measured.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.5.24.11 (talk) 19:48, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Largest? Are you sure about that? I question the assertion that BPL is the largest library in the US. It isn't even the largest public library in the US. Hmiklitz 20:57, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just added a reference link to the ALA page ranking the largest libraries (by size of collection) in the US--the BPL appears at #3 on that list, after the LOC and Harvard. That would seemingly make it the largest municipal library in the country. I find it surprising, but the ALA seems like a fairly reliable source. 65.213.77.129 (talk) 16:20, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Link is broken but I have seen the list before. On the ALA list, BPL has 15,686,902. The list doesn't have NYPL Research Libraries which have 15,985,192 books (based on NYPL 2007 Annul Report). I don't know why ALA only list NYPL, Branch collection. But if you are counting entire number of books in one institution, NYPL has BPL beat. (74.72.123.10 (talk) 04:25, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: BPL is not the largest library in the U.S. It has one of the largest research collections at a public library, second to NYPL. But it's circulating library is very small compared to other systems. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.54.225.207 (talk) 20:52, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: largest

message: * Annual Report
* Spring Gala booklets
** Celebrating Treasures of the Boston Public Library
** Treasures of the Boston Public Library
** Treasures of the Boston Public Library building map
* Boston Public Library Foundation The Campaign for the Library
* BPL Press Catalog of Publications
* The Boston Public Library Telephone Directory
* Boston Public Library Floor Plan Directory and Guide to the Central Library
** Boston Public Library Dudley Branch Library 65 Warren Street Roxbury, Massachusetts opening day brochure
** Opening day brochures for branch libraries of Boston Public Library
the zak 02:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publications of interest about Boston Public Library 

message: Now that our new library administrator is setting a course and the transition to a revamped administration a look at our cities' public libraries' policies with respect to DRM digital restrictions management could be featured on another page...
“VOTED: unanimously that the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston extend an offer to Ms. Amy E. Ryan as President of the Boston Public Library.”
*http://bpl.org/general/trustees/trusteeagenda081408.htm
Candidate Report on Amy E. Ryan President Boston Public Library
*http://groups.google.com/group/soc.libraries.talk
--the zak (talk) October 2008  —Preceding undated comment was added at 09:49, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The heads of our Boston Public Library 

message: On interesting difference between BPL and most other public libraries is that it uses the Library of Congress catalog system rather than Dewey Decimal. Most public and grade school libraries use the Dewey Decimal system, whereas most universities use the Library of Congress system. BPL is unusual for being more like a university research library. This should get mentioned in the article somewhere. grr (talk) 18:40, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Library of Congress System 

message: The building is very important in terms of the urban design of Copley Square and the Back Bay; the spatial relationship with Trinity Church deserves mention.  
I think the John Singer Sargent mural on the ceiling of the 5th floor, which allegorically depicts a narrative of the history of religion, and which has, I believe, been recently restored should be discussed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgearnold23 (talk • contribs) 18:20, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Design elements

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Rajmaan (talk) 22:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bulletins, collections, lists, catalogues 

message: Questions or comments may be added here. Please reference all information.Djsteve321 (talk) 15:36, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  BPL Not the First Library 

message: I've come up with something I was wondering if anybody else would be interested in finding some consensus on. I placed it on the talk page below:
* 'https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Norman_B._Leventhal_Map_Center
It involves coming up with some way to better sort the maps of BPL that are scattered across both:
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unidentified_maps   -and-
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_with_year_missing
CaribDigita (talk) 00:31, 16 May 2014 (UTC
:Such a project should be directed at the library itself, not this Wikipedia article. Maybe the library has a focus group taking suggestions or working on this issue.Parkwells (talk) 16:13, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  A little project 

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message: I've noticed a handful of directly quoted sections on the branch libraries, mainly from the BPL site. I don't want to remove this information until replacement text synthesizing the original information is put in, but I'm noting the current "offenders" below for attention:
* West End Branch
* Brighton Branch
* Faneuil Branch
* Honan-Allston Branch
* Charlestown Branch
* ALL Dorchester Branches Codman, Grove Hall left
* East Boston Branch
* Hyde Park Branch
* Connolly Branch
* Jamaica Plain Branch
* Mattapan Branch
* Dudley Branch
* Egleston Branch
* Parker Hill Branch
* West Roxbury Branch
Only the North End Branch seems exempt, but I suspect it might be the same text as the BPL website, just without the quotation marks. I'll try to come back and fix these at some point if I can. Potato-ssiumChloride (talk) 22:22, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Branch Libraries--Plagiarism of cited sources 

message: For the n dozenth time, I come to Wikipedia for a specific datum, and as usual it fails.
Unless I'm missing something, where's a list of all BPL directors?  That is, a list of all persons who have held the top position of director since BPL's founding.
Jimlue (talk) 05:51, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Directors?