As a Newberry inmate, I've had it on my mental to-do list to look into
the possibility of arranging something for C4L beyond the Thursday
canned tour. Now that you've reminded me, I'd be happy to ask for you
if you would like me to. I'm not sure what might be possible for
seeing things behind the scenes, but I can try once more people chime
in.

BTW, there will also be an exhibit on display while C4L is here, of
French Revolutionary pamphlets
<http://www.newberry.org/01282013-politics-piety-and-poison-french-pamphlets-1600-1800>

Linda Ballinger

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:05 AM, William Denton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I was in Chicago last year and went for a tour of the Newberry Library
> (www.newberry.org) and really enjoyed it.  It's an old independent research
> library on Washington Square Park and it's beautiful.  (If you read THE TIME
> TRAVELER'S WIFE [1], it's where Henry works. [2])
>
> They have free tours on Thursdays at 3, but they request advance notice of
> groups.  I'm happy to be in touch with them and try to arrange a Code4Lib
> group tour, and to wrangle the C4L people who might want to go.  If there a
> just a few, that's no problem; if there are a lot, maybe we can arrange
> something special.
>
> Questions: Are any of you who are going to the conference interested in such
> a tour?  Does that time suit?  Would you be interested in going behind the
> scenes, if possible, and seeing their conservation room and so on?
>
> Bill
>
> [1] If you haven't read it, then it's a good one to read before visiting
> Chicago.
>
> [2] If you saw the movie, which is a poor substitute for the book, you
> didn't see the Newberry, because the movie was filmed in Toronto and two
> different libraries here were library doubles for it.
>
> --
> William Denton
> Toronto, Canada
> http://www.miskatonic.org/