We reported on this earlier this week – you can now petition them to at the very least think about the destruction they want to effect on one of the UK’s most historically important libraries
Link to petition at
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/526/526/022/save-the-inner-temple-library-from-the-devastating-effects-of-option-2/
About This Petition
The Inner Temple library, which has existed since 1440, is one of the finest law libraries in the world. It lies at the heart of the Inner Temple providing a free invaluable service to practitioners and students alike and serves a core charitable function of the Inn. Aesthetically, it is a masterpiece of library design with its double-height galleried rooms mentioned in Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England.
All of this is under threat. At a meeting on 21st July 2015, the Executive Committee of Inner Temple recommended a re-development of the Treasury Building to create additional space for Education and Training activities and for commercial hire. In doing so, they recommended the most radical and expensive option, namely Option 2. This recommendation will be considered at a Bench Table meeting on 1st October 2015 and at an extraordinary Bench Table meeting to be held on 21st October 2015 at 5pm in Hall.
If Option 2 is adopted, the effect on the library will be devastating
The library’s entire upper floor and gallery will be converted into meeting rooms, offices and an auditorium for education and training
Half of the Library’s main floor will be lost to storage, equipment, lifts and stairs to a new fourth floor extension
58% of the floor space will be lost
50% of reader spaces will be lost (leaving only 49 reader places)
25,000 books from the main part of the Library and in every day use will be displaced.
The Library will be closed entirely for a year and a half for…….. (read more at link above)
