{"id":323078,"date":"2025-11-28T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/som2nypost.com\/american-history\/new-yorkers-love-books-nyc-department-of-records-information-services\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:15:57","slug":"new-yorkers-love-books-nyc-department-of-records-information-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/som2nypost.com\/?p=323078","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers Love Books! \u2014 NYC Department of Records &#038; Information Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Staff at the Municipal Archives and Library weeded surplus books from our collections for the purpose of holding a two-day book sale of items that might be of interest to the general public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The sale was scheduled for two days, Friday, November 7, and Saturday, November 8.\u00a0 Because of the overwhelming response by New Yorkers, almost everything was sold on Friday <em>and the Saturday sale is cancelled<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The turnout was unprecedented.\u00a0Our prior sale of similar deaccessioned books in 2016 had much lower participation.\u00a0Today, by contrast, people were lined up by 9:00 a.m. to get in. Twice, admission had to be paused because the number of people in the lobby was close to the limit under the fire \/ safety rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">New Yorkers love books and bargains!\u00a0Both of which they got today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">If you missed the sale and are interested in an online auction of exceptional items, please check out our online auction <a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fon.nyc.gov%2Fauction&amp;data=05%7C02%7CPtoole%40records.nyc.gov%7C83ad4295d3d249779bad08de1e394af2%7C32f56fc75f814e22a95b15da66513bef%7C0%7C0%7C638981428566193142%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=2loV3AIg5KmMD1Dqa8xxnDTXj681b52uMjO%2F2GwuVhY%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/on.nyc.gov\/auction<\/a> where twelve volumes are on the auction block until Friday November 14. In addition, we still have a limited number of original redeemed vintage bonds and stock certificates dating from the 1920s to the 1980s offered for sale on our support page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.nyc\/support\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.archives.nyc\/support<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at the Municipal Archives and Library weeded surplus books from our collections for the purpose of holding a two-day book sale of items that might be of interest to the general public. 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