Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017) on Netflix
NR20173h 25mDocumentary
The New York Public Library runs 92 locations, each serving its area's needs. Its administrators face the challenge of serving patrons as different as researchers and the homeless.
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- Netflix4.3/5
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- Rotten Tomatoes97%
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Across 92 locations, the New York Public Library serves each area according to local needs. The documentary has no central characters. It moves through foyers, annexes and meeting rooms in a series of vignettes, ranging from poetry to robot building, and presents the library as a shared place of learning open to everyone. Researchers, laptop users and the homeless all appear among the patrons, and well-known speakers take part. The administrators who lead the library describe the difficulty of answering such a diverse set of needs, and their accounts sit beside the people who use the buildings, as the institution keeps up its traditional work and responds to the digital revolution.
