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F or som e tim e now , con troversy has plagued the ambitious French plan to build a new national library. It did not surface, h ever, at the recent Berkeley, California, confer­ ence on “La Très grande bibliothèque and the Library of the Future” where, for three days, President François Mitterand’s latest and most ambitious grand projet sms ably described and defended by a knowledgeable, articulate, and enthusiastic contingent of French librarians, aca­ demicians, and architects. Despite grumblings in the halls, the audi­ ence of 200-300 American librarians, architects, teaching faculty, and Berkeley undergraduates practicing their French, were polite, receptive, and at times reverential, as they struggled to fathom the mythic proportions of the new Bibliothèque de France, a construction that will not only be the “the world’s largest library,” but also a monument to a nation’s scientific and cultural heritage that promises to alter sub­ stantially the landscape of Paris. Held at the Clark Kerr campus of the University of California on April 10-12, the conference fea­ tured American panelists presenting plans for the new San Francisco Public Library, the new Science, Industry, and Business Library at the New York Public Library, and discussed the fate of the book and the implications of automation for networking in the 21st century. But almost everyone’s time, attention, and interest were focussed upon archi­ tect Dominique Perrault’s plans for a $1.3 billion, 726,000-square-foot library in Paris that will house 15 million books, seat 4,000 readers, use 250 miles of bookstacks, and employ some 2,000 librarians and support staff. o Often facetiously referred to as the TGB, or très grande bibliothèque, a play-on-initials with TGV, the French high-speed train, the new library will subsume the majority of the collections and staff of the old Bibliothèque Nationale (BN). Construction of the new Library of France began on March 23 of this year and the facility is expected to open in w1­995, a date that presumably only fortuitously cor­ responds to President Mitterand’s final year in of­ fice. The library completes his legacy of monumen­ tal architectural undertakings, which also includes the glass pyramides at the new entrance to the Louvre museum, the ultra-modem popular opera at the Place de la Bastille, and the startlingly white Grande Arche de la Défense.

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