InfoShop is a major source of knowledge dissemination and information sharing for so many within and outside the Bank. It would be a pity and short sighted measure to close it.
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Rebecca Cortese
10 years ago
I am a retiree of the WB (30 yrs) and a current IMF employee who has always used the services of the Bookstore, it is invaluable! Please keep it open!
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Awo Poku
10 years ago
Please keep the Info Shop open. I would hate to see it closed.
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Monica Das Gupta
10 years ago
People are interested in the World Bank, it is a sort of tourist destination. The Bookstore gives them a place to learn about the Bank.
And it gives Bank people a place to access materials.
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Wilbur Norman
10 years ago
I visit the bookstore every time I get to DC. I agree with others who have said, " more bookstores in the world - not less!" Is the financial loss that great that money cannot be found to keep it up & running?
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Noooooooo........!
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Benoit Millot
10 years ago
I thought the WB was dedicated to communication and dissemination.
Closing the bookstore would be a wrong signal. Does the management want the Bank to become an underground, secret/secretive institution?
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Ilonka Csekey
10 years ago
Please reconsider your decision!! Thank you.
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Thelma Jones
10 years ago
As a retiree of the World Bank after 33 years, I am so disappointed to hear about the possible closing of the Infoshop which has been a source of knowledge, gathering of people, and opportunity to acquire a range of items/gifts for various occasions that have helped to raise awareness of the Bank and its mission. The Infoshop partnered with Bank entities, including the World Bank-IMF African American Association to bring many wonderful booksignings such as the one with Uzo Iweala ("Beast of No Nation") and the late Dorothy I. Height "Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy I. Height." The InfoShop was a place that I could purchase wonderful and reasonable gifts for the many hundreds of children that visited the Bank under the auspices of the Community Outreach Program and the World Bank-IMF African American Association. Also, since my advocacy as a breast cancer survivor, the Infoshop has afforded me an opportunity to purchase countless items that were given as gifts to not only cheer up breast cancer survivors and their caretakers but also as a way of introducing them to the World Bank. Losing the Infoshop to me is almost synonymous to losing a family member. Please keep the World Bank Infoshop) along with its caring, knowledgeable, and professional staff. Indeed, it's a pillar of strength in the community and for the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund as well.
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Patricia Kleysteuber
10 years ago
As a former staff member, I remember the bookshop being a good lunch stop to see what new development publications were out. Shame to lose it.
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Errol Graham
10 years ago
The Infoshop is seen as a critical, tangible part of the Bank's openness to share knowledge and we should keep it.
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Asamanetch Fantaye
10 years ago
There are information that the outsiders get from the bookstore they otherwise wouldn't get in other bookstores. Therefore I would like the Bank to reconsider it's decision.
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Steven G Keats
10 years ago
More not less book stores the public needs to know!
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Ernesto Cuadra
10 years ago
The bookstore plays a key role in helping disseminate the intellectual contribution of World Bank staff not only on development economics but also on transport, infrastructure, education, social protection, health, etc. When country delegations come to DC they always ask for time in their busy schedule to visit the bookstore where not hey can find publications that are difficult to identify through the portal. On top of this, closing the book store will go counter to the current trend of increased number of readers of paper-back books.
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/paper-back-real-books-rebound/
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Mahmood Ayub
10 years ago
Please keep the Info Shop open
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Khalid Ikram
10 years ago
A "knowledge organization" should have a place where it could share its and others' knowledge
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Zafer Ecevit
10 years ago
We can not think of this store as a profit center. It is one of the faces of the Bank. It helps share of work with the public.
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Rosalinda Quintanilla
10 years ago
Keep the bookstore open!!! Closing the bookstore would leave no open areas for the public to look at what the Bank does
The bookstore is key to the Bank's mission of informing the public of policy issues that affect us all.
We can not and should not move yo Internet only when more than 70% do not have access to the internet.
Thousands of visitors come to our bookstore and,are inspired by what they see there.
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Laura Bui
10 years ago
We need bookshops like this, especially in an area where knowledge is so prized. Please do not succumb to commercial imperatives like others before you.
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Najma Siddiqi
10 years ago
What is the logic of this - assuming there is one? Looks like it is one of the many attempts to indulge in 'activities' under the cover of 'results' following random reorganization.
InfoShop is a major source of knowledge dissemination and information sharing for so many within and outside the Bank. It would be a pity and short sighted measure to close it.
I am a retiree of the WB (30 yrs) and a current IMF employee who has always used the services of the Bookstore, it is invaluable! Please keep it open!
Please keep the Info Shop open. I would hate to see it closed.
People are interested in the World Bank, it is a sort of tourist destination. The Bookstore gives them a place to learn about the Bank. And it gives Bank people a place to access materials.
I visit the bookstore every time I get to DC. I agree with others who have said, " more bookstores in the world - not less!" Is the financial loss that great that money cannot be found to keep it up & running?
Noooooooo........!
I thought the WB was dedicated to communication and dissemination. Closing the bookstore would be a wrong signal. Does the management want the Bank to become an underground, secret/secretive institution?
Please reconsider your decision!! Thank you.
As a retiree of the World Bank after 33 years, I am so disappointed to hear about the possible closing of the Infoshop which has been a source of knowledge, gathering of people, and opportunity to acquire a range of items/gifts for various occasions that have helped to raise awareness of the Bank and its mission. The Infoshop partnered with Bank entities, including the World Bank-IMF African American Association to bring many wonderful booksignings such as the one with Uzo Iweala ("Beast of No Nation") and the late Dorothy I. Height "Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy I. Height." The InfoShop was a place that I could purchase wonderful and reasonable gifts for the many hundreds of children that visited the Bank under the auspices of the Community Outreach Program and the World Bank-IMF African American Association. Also, since my advocacy as a breast cancer survivor, the Infoshop has afforded me an opportunity to purchase countless items that were given as gifts to not only cheer up breast cancer survivors and their caretakers but also as a way of introducing them to the World Bank. Losing the Infoshop to me is almost synonymous to losing a family member. Please keep the World Bank Infoshop) along with its caring, knowledgeable, and professional staff. Indeed, it's a pillar of strength in the community and for the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund as well.
As a former staff member, I remember the bookshop being a good lunch stop to see what new development publications were out. Shame to lose it.
The Infoshop is seen as a critical, tangible part of the Bank's openness to share knowledge and we should keep it.
There are information that the outsiders get from the bookstore they otherwise wouldn't get in other bookstores. Therefore I would like the Bank to reconsider it's decision.
More not less book stores the public needs to know!
The bookstore plays a key role in helping disseminate the intellectual contribution of World Bank staff not only on development economics but also on transport, infrastructure, education, social protection, health, etc. When country delegations come to DC they always ask for time in their busy schedule to visit the bookstore where not hey can find publications that are difficult to identify through the portal. On top of this, closing the book store will go counter to the current trend of increased number of readers of paper-back books. http://www.geekwire.com/2015/paper-back-real-books-rebound/
Please keep the Info Shop open
A "knowledge organization" should have a place where it could share its and others' knowledge
We can not think of this store as a profit center. It is one of the faces of the Bank. It helps share of work with the public.
Keep the bookstore open!!! Closing the bookstore would leave no open areas for the public to look at what the Bank does The bookstore is key to the Bank's mission of informing the public of policy issues that affect us all. We can not and should not move yo Internet only when more than 70% do not have access to the internet. Thousands of visitors come to our bookstore and,are inspired by what they see there.
We need bookshops like this, especially in an area where knowledge is so prized. Please do not succumb to commercial imperatives like others before you.
What is the logic of this - assuming there is one? Looks like it is one of the many attempts to indulge in 'activities' under the cover of 'results' following random reorganization.