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A Voice for Women Veterans
A Voice for Women Veterans is the Department of Labor blog post authored by Latifa Lyles, Director of the Department's Women's Bureau. In her blog, Latifa states that based on the Bureau's listening...
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Five Potentially Forgotten Figures From 1970s Baseball
The Bronx ZooThe Big Red MachineThe We Are Family PiratesThe 1971 Baltimore Orioles Starting RotationTen Cent Beer NightDisco Demolition NightCharlie O. FinleyYa Gotta BelieveBill VeeckFisk Waving It...
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Enforcement Matters: Wage Violations, Workers and the Economy
According to U.S. Census and earnings data from New York and California, 3 to 6 percent of all workers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act experience minimum wage violations. Secretary of Labor,...
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Musical of the Month: Tenderloin
Friedman-Abeles Photograph Collection: Image Id: 424286 / Classmark: *T-VIM 1992-013]A guest post by Philip Lambert, author of To Broadway! To Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and HarnickWhen composer...
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Schomburg Treasures: WPA Artwork
Harding Field, by Caroline Durieux, 1943Part of FDR's New Deal, the Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA) was created in 1935 to provide paying jobs for the unemployed at every skill level....
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You Must Remember This: The Jeff Kisseloff Oral History Interviews
On a beautiful Wednesday morning in 1904, six year old Edna Doering left her apartment in the East Village with her mother, and two elder siblings. Her mother carried a shiny tin lunch box for the...
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December Reader's Den: Consider Phlebas Part 2
Last week we introduced Iain M. Banks's first sci-fi novel Consider Phlebas. It is the first novel in his Culture series and features the anti-hero Bora Horza Gobuchul as its protagonist. This week I'd...
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Podcast #40: Maira Kalman on Her Favorite Things
Illustrator and writer Maira Kalman's My Favorite Things is an arresting portrait of the significance of objects in our lives, from Toscanini's pants to Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch. At a recent...
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My Favorite Quotes From YA Books I Read In 2014
“She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.” —Heir of FireBy Sarah J. Maas“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.” ―Throne of Glass by...
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Meet the Artist: Evan Chamberlain
On view at the Mulberry Street Library are two glass works by Brooklyn-based artist Evan Chamberlain.Tell us about yourself.Born in 1987 in Seattle and raised in Bainbridge Island, WA by an...
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How to Say "Merry Christmas" in 8 Languages
Have a flair for foreign languages? Then this year, learn how to say "Merry Christmas" in eight different languages: French, Polish, Hungarian, Swedish, German, Spanish, Czech, and Norwegian. These...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of December 14
Sunnyside Citywide Home Care will present a recruitment for Home Health Aide Trainees (50 openings), on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 10 am - 1 pm, at Flushing Workforce 1 Career Center, 138-60 Barclay...
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Noteworthy Debut Novels 2014
Redeployment by Phil Klay won the National Book Award this year. Klay’s writing has appeared in several publications including Granta, The New York Times, and Newsweek among others, but Deployment is...
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Doorways to Romance
Why not (romance) books? Image ID: psnypl_grd_458Ever finished a book and immediately wanted to read another one just like it? It’s not always easy to find another novel to enjoy when you’re only...
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Time Machine: Victor Jessen, Time’s Surreptitious Splicer
Still from Jessen’s animated credit sequence for Theme and Variations. The filmmaker's name descends with wisps of cotton clouds.Like the ever branching dendritic pattern water takes in its descent,...
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A Sucker for Romance: 2014 YA Books Guaranteed to Make You Swoon!
I love a happy ending. I’m a sucker for a swoony romance and a cute boy with a crooked grin (preferably with a British accent). I may look like a hard shelled, cynical New Yorker but at my core I’m...
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SBA: 5 Ways to Build Trust in a Business
5 Ways to Build Trust in a Business is the U.S. Small Business Administration blog post authored by Marco Carbajo. Marco is a business credit expert, author, speaker, and founder of the Business...
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Association of College and Research Libraries, New York Chapter
Of the many librarian associations in New York City, I have found ACRL/NY to be one of the best. I am very interested in research, and I was dead set on becoming an academic librarian when I was in...
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Find Christmas Albums at the Library
Fun Fact: Did you know that New York Public Library has a free online resource called Freegal Music? In Freegal Music you can stream and download free songs (Limit to 5 free downloads per week). Now...
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SBA: 8 Steps to Becoming a Consultant at 50 Plus
8 Steps to Becoming a Consultant at 50 Plus is the U.S. Small Business Administration blog post authored by Caron Beesley. Caron is a small business owner, a writer, and marketing communications...
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