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Main Library Administration O ce, Reception Diane Asséo Griliches Mezzanine Emma Yates Memorial Library, (Formerly Emma Yates Hat Shop) Pocahontas, Virginia, 1992 Springfield Town Library, Springfield, Vermont, 1993 Library/The Drama Within Main Reading Room, The , Morrison Reading Room, University of California at Washington, D.C., 1992 Berkeley Library, Berkeley, California, 1992 Manuscript Room, National Library of Israel, National University Library of Bosnia and Jerusalem, Israel, 1990 Herzegovina (now burned down), Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1990 Administration, Hallway Tulkarm Municipal Library, West Bank, Tulkarm, Symphony Orchestra Library, Boston, Palestine Houghton Rare Book Library, Mezzanine, Drinking Fountain (Roger Stoddard, Curator of Rare Books), 1991 Monroeville County , Monroeville, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Columbia Alabama Point, Boston, Massachusetts Branch, , Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna, Italy Boston, Massachusetts, 1990 Gulbenkian Library of the Armenian Patriarchate, Courtyard, Boston Public Library, Boston, Jerusalem, Israel, 1990 Massachusetts Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, Italy, 1994 Stairwell to Lower Level 1 (L1) The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. Stacks, Harvard University, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992 Periodicals Room, Boston Public Library, Boston, Collins Branch Massachusetts, 1990 Trompe l'oeil, Rare Book Room, Toledo Biblioteca, Bates Reading Room, Boston Public Library, Boston, Toledo, Spain, 1990 Massachusetts, 1990 The , The Collection, Library, 1991 L1 Pembroke Library, Pembroke, Virginia Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990 Perkins School for the Blind Library, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1990 O’Neill Branch Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, Illinois Tulkarm Arab Orphans Home Library, Tulkarm, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, France Palestine Rotterdam Central Library, Rotterdam, Holland, 1991 Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts (catalogue), 1992 Shrewsbury Bookmobile, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 1992 Bates Reading Room, Boston Public Library, Boston, Additional photographs are available in sta areas Massachusetts, 1990 of the Main Library. Please call 617-349-4032 to make an appointment to view them. Newton Free Public Library, Newton, Massachusetts, 1989 , Cleveland Depot Literacy Library, Cleveland, Mississippi Chelsea Carnegie Public Library, Chelsea, Massachusetts Children's Room, Newton Public Library, Newton, Massachusetts, 1991

Bates Reading Room, Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts , 1992 CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Diane Asséo Griliches began taking photographs in 1981. Soon Represented in the library’s collection are photographs Griliches took of less well-known libraries and thereafter, she embarked on her first professional project: special collections. At the tiny Hungarian Library in Jerusalem, she photographed an older couple photographing libraries worldwide. “I was a quarry ready to be intently perusing titles in the language of their childhood. Griliches invokes Malcom X with her charmed,” writes Griliches in the preface to her book, Library/The photograph of four men studying at the Massachusetts Correctional Institutional Law Library. Drama Within. “The path was opened by my love of books and my Like Malcolm X, who spent many hours in this library decades before, these men, seated in front of great fondness for libraries, one of the very few institutions on earth shelves of law books, are immersed in study. In another photograph, Griliches captures a family where any soul may walk through its doors free, and depart enriched.” exiting a small, white clapboard building – a former post oce and now the Pembroke Public Library Griliches began to travel, photographing libraries big and small, and in Pembroke, Virginia. She took the photograph from the outside because the library was too small to capturing the grandiosity of the old and the utilitarian of the new. Her fit her, her camera, one librarian, and four patrons. work lead to a partnership with the Library of Congress’ Center of the Griliches’ photographs have a unifying theme – no matter the location, size, or the circumstances, Book, the result of which was the publication and exhibition of her the ordinary act of a person visiting a library is elevated. She captures the wonder, joy, appreciation, photographs depicting libraries and their patrons across the globe. and immersion of the individual inside the library seeking a place to learn and reflect. Her In describing Griliches’ photographs, the Center for the Book’s Director John Y. Cole notes, “There is photographs arm that people all over the world love libraries. nothing quite as poignant – or meaningful – as the magic combination of library, book, and individual reader.” Before becoming a photographer, Griliches was a musical director for community theater and high schools productions. She founded and directed Kids & Co. Musical Theatre in Newton, In 2009, Griliches presented the Cambridge Public Library with 63 framed photographs of her series Massachusetts. In addition to Library/The Drama Within (1996/2008), she has published three other featuring libraries worldwide to hang in the newly renovated Main Library. The residents of Cambridge books of photography: Thinking Photography (2012), Teaching Musicians/A Photographer’s View streamed into their new Main Library in November of 2009 and have delighted in it ever since. (2008), and An Appalachian Farmer’s Story/Story of an Extraordinary Common Man (2007). Since that time, the Library has won over 20 architectural awards and served millions. From the first Griliches’ photographs have been exhibited at the Library of Congress, Harvard University’s Houghton day of the new Main Library’s opening, the inspiring and profound photographs of Diane Asséo Library, and the Boston Public Library. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Griliches formed the artistic backdrop of the library. As people have moved through the corridors, Congress, the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard University’s , the Tanglewood Music studied, attended programs, and worked at the Cambridge Public Libraries, their experiences have Center, Jerusalem’s Distinguished Visitors Center, Virginia’s Crab Orchard Museum, and the been enriched by the creative vision and generosity of Ms. Griliches. The Library and the community Cambridge Public Library. gratefully acknowledge her wonderful gift. Her photographs are on display throughout the Main Library and the Collins and O’Neill branches of Among the Griliches’ photographs hanging in the Main Library are familiar Cambridge institutions, the Cambridge Public Libraries. including a photograph of a young Cambridge Public Library patron eager for his book to be checked out and one of an engrossed Roger Stoddard, the “Dean of American Bookmen” and Rare Book Curator for Harvard University’s Houghton Library, hard at work in an oce lined with books and equipment. Local libraries also feature prominently in this collection, like the reading room of the I.M. Pei designed John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, showing the multi-storied glass structure braced with geometric lines of steal. Of the several of the Boston Public Library, one particularly stands out: a teenager dressed in a black leather coat using a computer next to a large, white marble bust of Benjamin Franklin. Main Library Administration O ce, Reception Mezzanine Emma Yates Memorial Library, (Formerly Emma Yates Hat Shop) Pocahontas, Virginia, 1992 Springfield Town Library, Springfield, Vermont, 1993 Main Reading Room, The Library of Congress, Morrison Reading Room, University of California at Washington, D.C., 1992 Berkeley Library, Berkeley, California, 1992 Manuscript Room, National Library of Israel, National University Library of Bosnia and Jerusalem, Israel, 1990 Herzegovina (now burned down), Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1990 Administration, Hallway Tulkarm Municipal Library, West Bank, Tulkarm, Boston Symphony Orchestra Library, Boston, Palestine Massachusetts Houghton Rare Book Library, Harvard University Mezzanine, Drinking Fountain (Roger Stoddard, Curator of Rare Books), 1991 Monroeville County Public Library, Monroeville, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Columbia Alabama Point, Boston, Massachusetts Uphams Corner Branch, Boston Public Library, Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna, Italy Boston, Massachusetts, 1990 Gulbenkian Library of the Armenian Patriarchate, Courtyard, Boston Public Library, Boston, Jerusalem, Israel, 1990 Massachusetts Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, Italy, 1994 Stairwell to Lower Level 1 (L1) The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. Widener Library Stacks, Harvard University, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992 Periodicals Room, Boston Public Library, Boston, Collins Branch Massachusetts, 1990 Trompe l'oeil, Rare Book Room, Toledo Biblioteca, Bates Reading Room, Boston Public Library, Boston, Toledo, Spain, 1990 Massachusetts, 1990 The Gutenberg Bible, The Harry Elkins Widener Collection, Harvard College Library, 1991 L1 Pembroke Library, Pembroke, Virginia Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990 Perkins School for the Blind Library, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1990 O’Neill Branch Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, Illinois Tulkarm Arab Orphans Home Library, Tulkarm, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, France Palestine Rotterdam Central Library, Rotterdam, Holland, 1991 Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts (catalogue), 1992 Shrewsbury Bookmobile, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 1992 Bates Reading Room, Boston Public Library, Boston, Additional photographs are available in sta areas Massachusetts, 1990 of the Main Library. Please call 617-349-4032 to make an appointment to view them. Newton Free Public Library, Newton, Massachusetts, 1989 New York Public Library, New York City Cleveland Depot Literacy Library, Cleveland, Mississippi Chelsea Carnegie Public Library, Chelsea, Massachusetts Children's Room, Newton Public Library, Newton, Massachusetts, 1991

Diane Asséo Griliches began taking photographs in 1981. Soon Represented in the library’s collection are photographs Griliches took of less well-known libraries and thereafter, she embarked on her first professional project: special collections. At the tiny Hungarian Library in Jerusalem, she photographed an older couple photographing libraries worldwide. “I was a quarry ready to be intently perusing titles in the language of their childhood. Griliches invokes Malcom X with her charmed,” writes Griliches in the preface to her book, Library/The photograph of four men studying at the Massachusetts Correctional Institutional Law Library. Drama Within. “The path was opened by my love of books and my Like Malcolm X, who spent many hours in this library decades before, these men, seated in front of great fondness for libraries, one of the very few institutions on earth shelves of law books, are immersed in study. In another photograph, Griliches captures a family where any soul may walk through its doors free, and depart enriched.” exiting a small, white clapboard building – a former post oce and now the Pembroke Public Library Griliches began to travel, photographing libraries big and small, and in Pembroke, Virginia. She took the photograph from the outside because the library was too small to capturing the grandiosity of the old and the utilitarian of the new. Her fit her, her camera, one librarian, and four patrons. work lead to a partnership with the Library of Congress’ Center of the Griliches’ photographs have a unifying theme – no matter the location, size, or the circumstances, Diane Asséo Griliches, Photographer Book, the result of which was the publication and exhibition of her the ordinary act of a person visiting a library is elevated. She captures the wonder, joy, appreciation, photographs depicting libraries and their patrons across the globe. and immersion of the individual inside the library seeking a place to learn and reflect. Her In describing Griliches’ photographs, the Center for the Book’s Director John Y. Cole notes, “There is photographs arm that people all over the world love libraries. nothing quite as poignant – or meaningful – as the magic combination of library, book, and individual reader.” Before becoming a photographer, Griliches was a musical director for community theater and high schools productions. She founded and directed Kids & Co. Musical Theatre in Newton, In 2009, Griliches presented the Cambridge Public Library with 63 framed photographs of her series Massachusetts. In addition to Library/The Drama Within (1996/2008), she has published three other featuring libraries worldwide to hang in the newly renovated Main Library. The residents of Cambridge books of photography: Thinking Photography (2012), Teaching Musicians/A Photographer’s View streamed into their new Main Library in November of 2009 and have delighted in it ever since. (2008), and An Appalachian Farmer’s Story/Story of an Extraordinary Common Man (2007). Since that time, the Library has won over 20 architectural awards and served millions. From the first Griliches’ photographs have been exhibited at the Library of Congress, Harvard University’s Houghton day of the new Main Library’s opening, the inspiring and profound photographs of Diane Asséo Library, and the Boston Public Library. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Griliches formed the artistic backdrop of the library. As people have moved through the corridors, Congress, the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard University’s Houghton Library, the Tanglewood Music studied, attended programs, and worked at the Cambridge Public Libraries, their experiences have Center, Jerusalem’s Distinguished Visitors Center, Virginia’s Crab Orchard Museum, and the been enriched by the creative vision and generosity of Ms. Griliches. The Library and the community Cambridge Public Library. gratefully acknowledge her wonderful gift. Her photographs are on display throughout the Main Library and the Collins and O’Neill branches of Among the Griliches’ photographs hanging in the Main Library are familiar Cambridge institutions, the Cambridge Public Libraries. including a photograph of a young Cambridge Public Library patron eager for his book to be checked out and one of an engrossed Roger Stoddard, the “Dean of American Bookmen” and Rare Book Curator for Harvard University’s Houghton Library, hard at work in an oce lined with books and equipment. Local libraries also feature prominently in this collection, like the reading room of the I.M. Pei designed John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, showing the multi-storied glass structure braced with geometric lines of steal. Of the several of the Boston Public Library, one particularly stands out: a teenager dressed in a black leather coat using a computer next to a large, white marble bust of Benjamin Franklin.

Central Square Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992 Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Norfolk, Massachusetts