Its shelves now feature approximately 12,500 sketchbooks from more than
130 countries. An additional 7,502 sketchbooks, including Ms. Sumayang’s
drawn memoir of her past, will join the permanent collection when they
return from a 14-city tour, currently in Chicago and ending in
Melbourne, Australia, in November.
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, the library drew locals and tourists like
Thanassis Petropoulos, a professional comic-book artist visiting from
Athens, who said he was so moved by the books that he thought he might
submit his own next year.
“This is personal, this is someone, these are moments,” Mr. Petropoulos
said after leafing through several sketchbooks with his friend George
Athanasiu at one of the library’s long wooden tables. “It’s like you’re
having coffee with your girlfriend and you’re going to do a sketch of
her. When you’re done, this ends up here and someone from around the
world can see moments from your life.”
(excerpt from NYTimes.com)
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