Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graffitti was scrawled over a bookshelf in the station--a shelf that is also the only unsupervised public library in the country. There is no librarian, no checkout, no catalog. Passengers may take books off the shelf at any time, read them, and return them at their convenience...
...Cambridge library received a $15,000 grant from the state Board of Commissioners to create the service. Some of that money went to build the shelves to the MBTA's strict specifications. Spokesman Vincent Carbona said MBTA officials wanted to ensure that the bookcase would fit in with the station's general appearance and would not cause a safety hazard...
...neither aesthetics nor safety caused grave problems. The library persuaded Paul Dietrich, the architect who designed the station itself, to design the bookcase at no cost. The library then paid for the materials and labor needed to build the shelves. "The designer knew what he was doing," said Carbona. "He put the shelf in the right location, and it looks beautiful...
Brown said he hoped to put another shelf in Somerville's Davis Square station, and eventually to put a staffed kiosk in the Porter Square station. But he said Harvard Square was not likely to get a shelf because it would be hard to stock such a busy station...
NASA announces its plans for the Galileo mission to Jupiter in 1989 and awards contracts for the long- awaited space station...