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Morningstar Investment Research Center
When my interest was piqued about personal finance two years ago, I read many books about the subject and I attended database classes. Morningstar is a reputable financial evaluator that has helped me...
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Humans and Nature: A Reading List from Open Book Night
When we asked people to share books related to the theme of nature at our recent Open Book Night, we heard about titles related to both the natural world and to human nature, with an emphasis on...
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Clustered Resources on the California Gold Rush
Clustered resources refers to using varied perspectives and media to portray an educational topic in compliance with Common Core standards. The term was coined by author and educator Marc Aronson and...
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Booktalking "Hider Seeker, Secret Keeper" by Elizabeth Kiem
Lana Dukovskaya is a ballerina in the Bolshoi company. She is thrilled to get a chance to go to NYC and dance in The Rite of Spring... but only because star soloist Nina is unwell. And there is...
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Apprenticeship Opportunities in New York City
Job seekers, if you are 18 years old with a high school diploma, like to work with your hands, have a good mechanical aptitude, and would like to develop a career in well-paying occupations,...
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Art for a Lifetime: A Poetry Writing Workshop Review
Over the last two months, we brought together a group of people to read, write, and discuss poetry in the library. The eight week workshop, The Art of Making Poems: Creation and Craft, was led by...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of May 24
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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Experimental but Approachable
Nell Zink’s experimental writing (and her unlikely friendship with Jonathan Franzen) is making headlines— and creating a new audience of readers who are curious about avant-garde fiction.You don’t need...
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Booktalking "Flying Changes" by Sara Gruen
Annemarie Zimmer loves her 17-year-old one-eyed warm blood, Hurrah, and her teenage daughter, Eva. She helps her mother, Mutti, by teaching riding lessons at her stable. She sleeps in the barn, and...
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Elementary, My Dear Librarian: Celebrating Arthur Conan Doyle
If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were immortal, he’d celebrate his 156th birthday today.And the Scottish author IS immortal, in a way: He lives on in his most famous character, the detective Sherlock...
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Origins of Yogi Berra's Finest "Yogiisms"
Yogi Berra, via Wikicommons Stephen Holland / CC-BY-SALast week marked the 90th birthday of one of baseball's living legends, Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra, who has had many roles in the game over the...
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Podcast #62: Matthew Weiner on Don Draper's Inner Life
Subscribe on iTunes. Don Draper's got nothing on Matthew Weiner. Weiner, after all, is the creator, director, executive producer, and writer of one the the most esteemed prestige dramas ever to light...
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Booktalking "Return to Sender" by Julia Alvarez
12-year-old Tyler is enjoying life at his Vermont farm, and all seems well. Then, his family hires illegal immigrant Mexican workers. Tyler is very ambivalent about his parents dabbling in this source...
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The Bronx Book Fair @ the Bronx Library Center
Now in its third year, the Bronx Book Fair (formerly the Bronx Literary Festival) will be held on Saturday, May 30 from 12-6 p.m. at the Bronx Library Center. It promises to be a great day for book...
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Booktalking "All Four Stars" by Tara Dairman
Gladys Gatsby is a sixth-grade chef-in-training. A bona fide foodie, she loves everything pertaining to food. She reads and writes about food. She watches the food TV station, and she cooks and enjoys...
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The New Museum Presents: The IDEAS CITY Festival 2015
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. —Italo...
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Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Labor Force: Contributions and...
May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, which celebrates Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States.According to the Library of Congress, "The month of May was chosen to commemorate the...
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Carver vs. Cheever: Who Said It?
Two giants of the American short story. One NYPL quiz.Raymond Carver and John Cheever have birthdays two days apart: May 25 and May 27, respectively. Cheever was born in 1912, more than 20 years before...
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Rock 'n' Read: Screaming Females
Photo credit: Christopher Patrick Ernst"In the past, my partner and I would read the same book as one another while I was out on tour. It was a way of staying connected, even though we were physically...
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June Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
Come join us for an Author @ the Library talk this June at Mid-Manhattan Library to hear distinguished non-fiction authors discuss their work and answer your questions. Author talks take place at 6:30...
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