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Article: Robo-library. (refurbished Los Angeles Central Library)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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A sneak preview of the new high-tech book depository-and why everyone's making all the fuss
The 1986 conflagration wasn't the first time the indomitable Los Angeles Central Library was scorched. About a hundred years before an arsonist's blaze struck the book depository, librarian Tessa Kelso fanned the flames of righteous indignation when she ordered a steamy French novel for the stacks. When a local Methodist minister demanded that the book be removed Kelso, who smoked and wore her hair scandalously short for those days, refused.
The good pastor, threatening fire and brimstone, led public prayers asking the Lord to save Kelso's soul. She sued him for ...