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ART January Meeting



JANUARY 2002 MEETING NOTICE

The New York Mercantile Library of New York
An Educational Institution Promoting Literature in America


The Mercantile Library of New York was founded in 1820 by merchants and their clerks before the advent of public libraries. Originally known as the Mercantile Library Association, its circulating library first opened in 1821 in rented rooms on Fulton Street. By 1870, the library?s collection of 120,000 volumes was the leading circulating library in the United States with an extraordinary collection of books in the humanities. The Library was also known for its popular lecture program that featured such venerable speakers as William Makepeace Thackeray, Frederick Douglass, and Mark Twain. At that time, the reading room had more than four hundred newspapers and periodicals, three thousand reference works and was reportedly used by a thousand persons a day. The Library also offered classes on many subjects and was considered a meeting place for social and educational pursuits. More recently, the Library has focused on developing its collection of fiction and related non-fiction, the establishment of the Center for World Literature, and the creation of the Literary Center. The Mercantile Library is also home to a writer?s studio, and the Proust Society of America.


Harold Augenbraum, the Director of The New York Mercantile Library, will speak about the history of the Mercantile Library, its place in the New York literary world, its programs of literary interest, and its current mission to individuals and literary organizations.


Date:           Thursday January 24th, 2002

Place:          The New York Mercantile Library
                        17 East 47th Street

Time:           5:30 pm ? 6:15 pm       Social
                        6:30 pm ? 7:30 pm       Program

Fee:            ART Members     $3
                        Non-members     $5
Directions:     By Subway.  Take the 4, 5, 6, 7, B, D, F, Q to 42nd Street;
he 6 also stops at 51st Street. Walk to 47th Street, just east of 5th Avenue.

RSVP:   By Tuesday January 22nd to Mindy Gordon  or
                Telephone:  914  366-6350.
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