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Job and Employment Links for the Week of March 8
Per Scholas Information Session provides information about a free 15-week computer training program through Per Scholas and learn about their eligibility and screening process. This session will be...
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Black Life Matters Exhibition Feature of the Week: Evidence of Things Un*Seen
This week's feature is provided by Shola Lynch, Curator of our Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division. Here she discusses the importance of archival video and audio materials to black history and our...
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Not Just Coming Out Stories
Our reader asked us for "recommendations for gay fiction that is NOT erotica and also not just coming out stories?" Here are a few suggestions from our staff.I read My Real Childrenby Jo Walton last...
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Waiting for "Outlander"
New episodes of the great Starz series Outlander finally return to TV on April 4, but for those of us who’ve been waiting since the fall it still feels like an eternity. You’d think I’d be used to...
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Street Prostitute, Fort-Monjol, April 19, 1921, by Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget (French , 1857–1927). Fort-Monjol, fille publique faisant le quart, 19e. Avril 1921 [Fort-Monjol, prostitute looking for clients, April 19th, 1921]. Albumen silver print. NYPL, The Miriam...
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Feminism Unfinished
Every year in March we reflect on trailblazing women in history: adventurers, artists, athletes, businesswomen, educators and scholars, literary figures, media figures, reformers and activists,...
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Musical of the Month: Rex
Richard Rodgers, Nicol Williamson, Penny Fuller, and Sheldon Harnick work on RexA guest post by Sherman Yellen. After “The Rothschilds” I left the theater and worked as a screenwriter where I practiced...
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An Interview With Titus Kaphar
As the millennial generation is charged with shifting the country’s policing practices and devaluation of Black humanity, artist Titus Kaphar and The Jerome Project makes those impacted by our criminal...
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7 Amazing Facts and Books About Female Science Pioneers
Although it's true that women are underrepresented in STEM fields, female scientists have been making breakthroughs for centuries. Marrying innovation with tenacity, female scientists have discovered...
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Booktalking "Reviving Ophelia" by Mary Pipher
Mary Pipher, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, noticed that girls in the 1990s were more self-conscious about their appearance and exhibited more sex-stereotyped feminine behavior than they did when she...
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Reader's Den: The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Part 2
Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons. Image ID: 1623706Prior to reading The Secret History of Wonder Woman, my familiarity with the character was mostly limited to The Justice League of America and Super...
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Stomping on Ye Old Sod... Celebrating Ireland at the Library
St Patrick's Day in the morning. Image ID: 1588252Saint Patrick’s Day has traditionally represented an important occasion for celebration amongst many, including my maternal relatives (my father’s...
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Quantum Leap, Do You Copy? Goodbye Leonard Nimoy
The Final Frontier. Image ID: TROUVELOT_014With the passing of Leonard Nimoy, this winter of our discontent is complete. One of my favorite cultural icons has died, and February 2015 was very cold and...
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Lawmen and Badmen: The Tin Star of the Old West
Gunslinger in the Church. Lobby card. Image ID: G98F842_002.In the old movies about the Old West, when grizzled, chawing, cussing, murdering highwaymen ride into town and disturb the peace, from behind...
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Booktalking "Finishing Becca" by Ann Rinaldi
The Declaration of Independence was penned in 1776. This is Philadelphia in 1778, in the midst of the Rebels and the Loyalists. 14-year-old Becca Syng is sent to work and live as a maid with the...
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Meet the Artist: Rossella BLUE Mocerino
The Mulberry Street Library is proud to host the art exhibition "Love, Masks, and Flowers" by Greenwich Village based artist Rossella BLUE Mocerino. A veteran exhibitor of NYPL Libraries, BLUE brings...
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Booktalking "A Break With Charity" by Ann Rinaldi
Salem wenches, bitch witches... those are some of the names that the local townspeople call the "afflicted girls," who provide more and more names to the local magistrate for attention and relief from...
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Peter Hart's "The Great War"
This is a superb military study of the Great War. if you are looking for some new perspectives on the Bloody Fields of Flanders and elsewhere then this seminal work by Peter Hart is a good place to...
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Why Is New York City Called the Big Apple?
View of Manhattan from Fulton Street circa 1935. Image ID: 482681New York is a city of nicknames. The City That Never Sleeps, Empire City, The City So Nice They Named It Twice… and of course Gotham,...
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ReelAbilities Film Festival Inspires Students at the Library
Legacy High School Students complete a mural in anticipation of the 7th Annual ReelAbilities:NY Disabilities Film FestivalThis year is the 7th Annual Reelabilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival....
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