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New Biography on Journalist Ethel Payne Available at the Schomburg Gift Shop
Great news: James McGrath Morris's new biography on journalist Ethel Payne, Eye on the Struggle, is now available in the Schomburg Gift Shop! The book follows the life of one of the most significant...
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Podcast #56: Tavis Smiley on Maya Angelou
Subscribe on iTunes.Tavis Smiley's daily podcast Tavis Talks is a popular news and opinion program from BlogTalkRadio. He also currently hosts Tavis Smiley on PBS and The Tavis Smiley Show on PRI. But...
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Strasbourg's Most Splendid Party
The cathedral spire "transformed into crystal." Detail of plate 7On October 5, 1744, the city of Strasbourg threw a party that would last through the five following days. There were processions,...
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#WeNeedDiverseBooks: A Few of Our Favorites
If I told you that we had diverse books at the library, what kinds of books do you think I mean? Would they have multicultural characters from different parts of the world? Who speak different...
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Booktalking "Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile" by Gloria Houston
Dorothy loved books and people, so she combined the two interests into a career. She attended college and then library school. She was then ready to be a librarian, but she and her husband moved to a...
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New Beginnings: A Reading List from Open Book Night
When we asked people to share books related to the theme of “new beginnings” at our Open Book Night last week we got a really wide range of fiction and nonfiction book recommendations. We heard about...
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Novedades de Abril 2015: Celebrando el Mes Nacional de la Poesía
Poesía es el arte de componer las palabras para comunicar el sentimiento. La poesía es considerada una de las artes literarias más antiguas en la historia del ser humano y puede ser utilizada e...
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Guide for Freelancers, Creatives and Independent Contractors
You may be setting out on your own as a freelancer or small business owner, but you don't have to do it alone. You have the world-class resources of The New York Public Library to help you every step...
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Ask the Author: Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma comes to Books at Noon next Wednesday, April 22 to discuss his latest work, The Fishermen. We asked him six questions about what he likes to read.When and where do you like to read?I...
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Preservation Week 2015: Taking Care of Your Collections at Home
The New York Public Library has an enormous amount and variety of collection materials, and those collections require care to help them last. But the Library also has a Preservation Division to care...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of April 19
Enrollment Now Open! SAGEWorks Boot Camp. This two-week long, intensive training course will provide participants with essential skills to lead them toward job placement. The first session starts on...
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Booktalking "Otto the Book Bear" by Katie Cleminson
Otto is a book bear. He loves books, and he also lives inside one. However, when no one is looking, he leaves his book to walk around the house, read other books and write his own stories. Then, one...
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Merce Cunningham Archive
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is proud to announce that the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Inc, records, Additions is now open. This collection is 141.44 linear feet comprising 315 boxes, 41...
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14 Words Even Bookworms Often Confuse
There’s great joy to be gleaned from using and understanding words with precision. For the linguistically inclined, it can be the pleasure of reading and writing. It can also be an obsession. Recently,...
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We Are New Yorkers: A Reading List for NYC Immigrant Heritage Week
Happy Immigrant Heritage Week! Since 2004, New York City has celebrated Immigrant Heritage Week around April 17, coordinated by the Mayor's Office of Immmigrant Affairs. April 17, 1907 is the date that...
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"...a half-acre of strings..." Sinatra on the Radio
Irving Berlin. Photograph by Vandamm Studio.Frank Sinatra was, as the Library for the Performing Arts exhibition attests, an American icon. The project, a collaboration of LPA and the GRAMMY Museum...
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Physicists Who Looked To Literature
Physics Laboratory. Image ID: 119645J. Robert Oppenheimer, who worked on the Manhattan Project is said to have thought of the words, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" from the Bhagavad...
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Library Guide to Binge-Watching
Communications - Exhibits - Poster, Television. Image ID: 1667281Libraries are commonly known as centers for books and learning, but sometimes you just want to vegetate on the couch for a few hours...
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Booktalking "Animal Stars" by Robin Ganzert
Casey the bear performs for KFC Original Recipe only. No other kind of chicken will do. Do not insult the bear's intelligence by offering him imitation chicken. Film staff have driven vehicles 90...
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Salute to Narrative Nonfiction: Science
Narrative or creative nonfiction is a somewhat newly recognized genre. Naturally, as librarians we have a great appreciation for the research, the primary source documents and interviews, but it is the...
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