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Keep the World Bank Bookstore (Infoshop) Open

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Christopher Saunders
10 years ago

This is important PR and source of information/resources for all staff. Unless you propose to replace it with free bookshop for staff only, you definitely should not be closing it!

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Christina
10 years ago

This is a wonderful resource for the globally-minded reader. I would hate to see such a great resource close down its brick and mortar location.

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Karen
10 years ago

It would be great if Infoshop could stay open, it is a great knowledge resource and dissemination place for the Bank.

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Suzanne Shriver
10 years ago

It would be more justified for Disneyland to close than for this bookstore to shut its doors. Management, please tell us what it will take to pull you back from the cliff. We can all stand to read a little more.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Infoshop should stay open, it is a great PR tool for the bank and is actually one of the few departments that is able to cover its operational costs.

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Eszter Balázs
10 years ago

It's a great shop with a wide selection at a central location. It would be a great loss of downtown buzz to do away with it.

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Suzanne Alavi
10 years ago

I love the info shop. It is sea of serenity amid the business of this business district. Great books/ nice lounge area and a place to relax and read and actually shop instead of doing it online.

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Marina Primorac
10 years ago

I was sorry to see the IMF bookstore close - the InfoShop is a critical part of downtown DC's cultural fabric.

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Paulette Mpouma
10 years ago

We love infoshop

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Eduardo
10 years ago

There are goals that cannot be measured by profits, specially in an international organization .

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Marie Helene Bricknell
10 years ago

The Infoshop is an unique source of materials and books on development. Its loss would mean an impoverishment of available resources on key aspects of development. Surely management could identify savings elsewhere! Finally, the Infoshop offers access to WB research in economics, health etc and, as such, provides the general public with greater knowledge and information on the mission of the WB.

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Gerhard Stahl
10 years ago

As researcher and regular visitor to Washington and the world bank this book shop is part of my program. It would be a big loss if it disappears. Gerhard Stahl, Berlin

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Mindy Kotler
10 years ago

Books are more important and more lasting than World Bank bureaucrats.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Please keep this bookstore open! What would I do with my lunch hours if I couldn't visit??

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Zakaria Suddiqui
10 years ago

It is very useful asset for researchers do clise it down plz.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Love the Infoshop- a wealth of resources. Lets keep hard copy books alive!

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Jorge Barbosa
10 years ago

Best place to get the most up to date books on development to read on flights or offline. This is a great store, please don't close it.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

The World Bank is publicly funded and has a responsibility to make it's information accessible; a brick and mortar shop is a much better way to engage people than pdf downloads, and the WB can certainly afford the rent.

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David Ellerman
10 years ago

WB retiree

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Please keep this store bookstore open!!! It's getting harder and harder to find bookstores these days. And to think that we all wonder why kids are reading les and less these days :(