How can the media collection activate multiple senses?

Media : magazines / journals/ comics / independent Bowery authors / Newspaper / Independent Film from Bowery / video game systems?/ Remnants of Previous and Current Bowery Businesses, i.e. Old Menus, bar signs, rally posters, xxx signs, music!/music posters/ Starbuck's (three of them are within 5 blocks)


program of the stacks continuously moving through space

primary stacks : weave through reading and open performance spaces allow for drop off and collection of media, new media into library? or most exciting?
secondary stacks : access with help of librarian or on own, main collection,
tertiary stacks : access by librarian only – artifacts, older?

networked organization of program / overlapping / folds – No singularly defined space, i.e, this space is for reading, this space is for collecting – or maybe a shift from less defined to defined spaces – but bathroom can still have media in it – who doesn't like to read a magazine on the toilet?



Program User Scenarios :

Rich Kid (12?) From Broadway on the hunt for the first comic book from bowery (Tommy)
In the main “reading area's” he can grab a snack and get excited about the new comic's on display in primary stack's – can stay here in loop of Reading / Primary Drop off excess media from home (comic book he is tired of, baseball card's, playstation 3, just received ps4 for Christmas) But want's the first comic book – looks in secondary, finds interesting books, but not the one - look's on updated web for book – find's it in tertiary section, librarian picks it up for him – can read now in more quite area of secondary stacks, or check it out? On his way out, distracted by rock performance, ends up late for school.

“bum” (Jerald)
Chess in public space? He can already do this though in the park, open performance – he is involved in helping to produce a show (Fiddler on The Roof of the Bowery Mission), can make a little cash (enough to afford to live in NYC, let alone on Bowery! although occasionally spends the night in the secondary stacks, if he get's tired of the mission) while doing something he enjoy's,. Mainly hangs out in the secondary reading room (a bit more quiet) checking out old sport section's of the New York Times. - Occasionally checks out an even older Times from the tertiary stacks. Love's to drop off collected photo album's, and kitchen catalogs he finds in the trash around the mission.

late 20s / early 30s advertising day job downtown (Samantha)
Stops by daily for coffee and input of new's from main reading room / performance space (maybe if no performance can project news?) Early on in projects, she goes up to the tertiary stacks to research case studies in sidewalk advertising from the past life of the Bowery, once had a client meeting in one of the offices to show, her main inspiration, a historic advertisement for a Sausage – Once in a while invites her boyfriend to go to see a jazz band in performance space. Afterwords, sticks around for a drink in the cafe, which is now more of a lounge, and then more dancing as the dj is just going on in the open performance space.