Amy Ryan

Oopsies: Missing BPL prints found

By adamg - 6/4/15 - 4:02 pm

Found prints at the Boston Public Library

Amy Ryan, BPL Conservation Officer Lauren Schott and the prints.

The Boston Public Library reported this afternoon an employee found the two prints that had gone missing more than a year ago. They weren't stolen, they were just misfiled.

The Rembrandt and Dürer were found together in Row 14B, Bay 3 on Shelf 2, approximately 80 feet from where the items should have been filed. Fourteen staff members searched 180,000 of the print stack’s 320,000 items (including 200,000 prints and drawings in the Print Collection and 120,000 chromolithographs), totaling 38 rows of the 60 rows of print stacks, or about 60% of the inventory. Nine offices, work rooms, and reading rooms had also been searched. The Durer and Rembrandt have been refiled.

Suddenly outgoing BPL President Amy Ryan announced the find not long after at-large City Councilor Steve Murphy called for all of the library trustees to quit immediately.

BPL head announces resignation after tense meeting over missing stuff

By adamg - 6/3/15 - 5:18 pm

Boston Public Library President Amy Ryan announced her resignation today, hours after a library trustees meeting at which an aide to the mayor accused her and the library of not doing enough to protect valuable holdings, such as prints recently reported missing from the central library.

Ryan, who came to Boston from Minnesota eight years ago, is stepping down effective July 3. In a statement, she said: Read more.

Councilors demand to know: Why was BPL president getting bonuses when workers were foregoing raises to save libraries?

By adamg - 10/22/14 - 5:29 pm

The City Council today approved a hearing on BPL finances to rein in what at-large City Councilor Steve Murphy called an apparent "shadow government" overseeing Boston libraries

In switch, library head now says she would favor keeping all branches open if money can be found

By adamg - 10/25/10 - 8:00 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports on BPL President Amy Ryan's comments at a meeting at the Dorchester Lower Mills BPL branch, one of four currently slated for closing this spring.

Library trustees could meet later this month to reconsider shutting four branches

By adamg - 6/11/10 - 9:52 am

City Councilor Felix Arroyo gets library officials to at least think about reversing their decision to shut branches in Brighton, South Boston, Dorchester and East Boston, if the city or state can come up with enough money to keep them open, the Dorchester Reporter reports.

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The fight to save a branch library begins in the pouring rain

By adamg - 4/9/10 - 10:51 pm

Hands off Faneuil

Supporters of the Faneuil BPL branch didn't let rain stop their candlelight vigil in Oak Square this afternoon - that's what umbrellas are for. Residents, city councilors Mark Ciommo, Ayanna Pressley and Felix Arroyo, state Reps Kevin Honan and Michael Moran all vowed to reverse today's vote by BPL trustees to shut Faneuil and three other branches.

Ciommo and Moran, both strong Menino supporters, said they were disappointed by the mayor's role in shutting the branches; Moran said he has never been so disappointed in the mayor. Moran said the issue is not money, but that Menino and BPL President Amy Ryan just don't like small branches. And he had some choice words for library Trustee Paul LaCamera for criticizing him and other legislators for not showing up this morning at a pre-ordained vote on closings:

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