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It consists of four video screens showing the bowels of NLI in its previous location, at Hebrew University\u2019s Givat Ram campus, in the years just prior to the Library\u2019s move in October 2023 to a new building opposite the Knesset. On the first screen, we see part of the path upon a conveyer belt that a book took from a shelf to a patron. Another screen shows facing shelf units compressing and expanding to allow access to librarians. A third takes us on a journey past the sides of the units as we linger on each row and down it, trying to grasp the enormity of the range of titles. The final is a variation of the previous screen, but the camera gradually pulls back until the book-laden shelf units on both left and right end and the camera reveals the next units bereft of all books and, further back-back-back, still more units in states of disassembly pre-move \u2014 and then, as if the camera operator\u2019s back had hit a bumper, the journey propels us forward, the disarray yielding to the empty shelves until reaching the full shelves as they are meant to be, where the loop sends us backward and forward yet again. A fifth installation isn\u2019t a video but a moving, six-meter (20-foot) section of one of the library\u2019s green conveyor belts that Goldvicht purchased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People don\u2019t appear in Goldvicht\u2019s works, no words are spoken and no sounds are audible other than the images\u2019 musical accompaniment. But all are implied: Patrons, of course, had ordered the books; librarians took the requests, located the items and placed them on the conveyer belts \u2014 and, hours or days or weeks later, people repeated the process in reverse to return the books to their assigned locations. While no one is seen, we can\u2019t miss the posters of Ashkelon and Haifa\u2019s Bahai temple and other places that the stacks\u2019 workers adhered to the shelf ends as their personal signatures of sorts. Words aren\u2019t uttered on film, but trillions of them fill the books. We don\u2019t hear the belt\u2019s movement, but surely it made noise, as did the shoes of librarians treading kilometers upon kilometers daily to fulfill the orders, and the freight elevators delivering them vertically off the belts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The films reveal a process patrons never saw at Givat Ram \u2014 or, probably, at any enormous library. Now, in NLI\u2019s technologically-advanced building, a visitor can stand at windows to observe robotic arms, not librarians, fetch someone\u2019s requested publication and send it on its way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibit neither documents the move from old building to new nor sentimentalizes the previous location, but it honors an effective system of the past that brought knowledge, enjoyment and employment to generations of the library\u2019s readers and employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As such, Goldvicht explained, it represents broader themes of transition and change, deconstruction and reconstruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\u05d0\u05dc](\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/\u05d0\u05dc-\u05d4\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea-\u05d4\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea-\u05e6\u05d9\u05dc\u05d5\u05dd_\u05d0\u05dc\u05e2\u05d3-\u05e9\u05e8\u05d9\u05d2-900x600.jpg\")
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