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While certain documents were openly displayed prior to the renovation, stacks are now closed in an effort to improve climate control and ensure safekeeping of rare documents, said Ellen M. Shea, the library’s head of public services. Now patrons must ask librarians to retrieve requested materials...
...Finally we have a space that is comfortable and reflects the richness of our collections,” Shea said...
...studying for finals by calculating how many points of ERA Shea Stadium will save Pedro Martinez or how many days Randy Johnson will spend on the DL in ‘05, crack open a beer for Curt Flood, the patron saint of free agents. If he hadn’t courageously challenged the reserve clause in his contract in 1970, players might still be restricted to spending their entire career with one team...
...ghosts that haunt Shea Stadium do not emerge from opponents of Octobers past, but rather from brash investments that didn’t exactly work out. If you listen carefully and try to block out the din of airplanes flying overhead from LaGuardia Airport, you can make out the whispers of Mo Vaughn, Roberto Alomar, Shawn Estes, Pedro Astacio and Jeromy Burnitz, laughing as they count their money...
...Shea was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and has also won a Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering and a Presidential Faculty Fellow Award. Perhaps her most notable award is the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology. A quarter of those who win the award go on to win Nobel Prizes...