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The American Teenager Project Comes to the Kingsbridge Library!
Part photography program. Part exploration of personal history. All teenagers. The American Teenager Project has combined photographic portraits with oral histories of hundreds of teenagers over the...
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Booktalking "Sniper" by Theodore Taylor
Sniper by Theodore Taylor, 2007 Imagine lions and tigers in your backyard and a house cheetah to guard your family. Thanks to an endowment from a wealthy widow his parents met in Africa, this is Ben's...
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Free Job Training for Medical Office Assistants
The City University of New York was awarded $19.86 million through the United States Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grant program to offer CUNY...
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Remembering Martin Pakledinaz, 1953-2012
“Costumes have to tell you in a moment what that person is feeling, what they’re going through, what changes are happening.”...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - September 30th, 2012
For the week of September 30, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice and miscellaneous books. If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, there is a free app! Use...
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Can You Smell The Dairy Air? Stereotypes, Statistics, and Milk
I recently had two French couchsurfers stay with me. I went downstairs to find the guy in the kitchen rummaging through my refrigerator. I asked him what he was looking for. He said milk. I said I...
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Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups, Featuring Alice Munro
Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups is a short story read-aloud program that meets every two weeks at lunch time (1:00 p.m.) Mixed Bag PM meets at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays every two weeks. This story is a...
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Free Programs at New Dorp Library: October 2012
That cool breeze is back already and its blowing around all those Autumn leaves. Before you know it, the kiddies will be in costume and excited for Halloween! But don't be afraid! There's nothing to be...
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Booktalking "Shelter" by Harlan Coben
Shelter by Harlan Coben, 2011 Dealing with a dead father, a mother in rehab and a missing girlfriend might sound like a drag. The false promises and the perfection that you want to believe can happen...
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October Reader's Den: "Ready Player One" Week 1
Welcome to October’s Reader's Den! This month’s selection will be Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place of economic and environmental disasters. Like...
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Clicks to the Black World
Digital Schomburg's online exhibitions on various aspects of the black experience have truly become a global phenomenon. They are attracting visitors from all over the world. From Argentina to Zimbabwe...
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United States Sanitary Commission Processing Project: After Antietam
September 17, 2012 marked the 150th anniversary of the battle of Antietam, often called "the bloodiest day in American history." With Alexander Gardner's images before us, we can easily imagine the...
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New Plant Patent Color Images at SIBL: Through September 25, 2012
Here are scans of the color plates of U.S. Plant Patents received at SIBL for the weeks of September 11, 18 and 25, 2012. These follow from the earlier postings of Plant Patent plates, which are...
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Free Job Training for Community Health Workers
The City University of New York was awarded funding through the United States Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grant program to offer CUNY Career...
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Robot Dawn: The Stage Origins of a Sci-Fi Idol
Nothing is more strange to man than his own image. —Dr. Alquist, sole survivor of the robot rebellion. It's standard sci-fi melodrama now: The robots evolve and become indistinguishable from their...
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Ghosts of Cities Past
What’s the history of your favorite haunt? Teens from The New York Public Library’s Seward Park Branch explored the hidden past of their neighborhood earlier this year and made some surprising...
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Special Education Libraries
My mother is a special education teacher, and I had the pleasure of giving presentations about public library services in some special education classrooms. Since gifted education used to be classified...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at October 7th, 2012
For the week of October 7, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback trade fiction. books. If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, there is a free app! Use it with your...
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The Google Challenge: Google Images versus The Picture Collection
(with apologies, in advance, to the amazing Chris Raschka.) "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one." —Neil Gaiman In September 2015 the Picture...
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October Reader's Den: "Ready Player One" Week 2
If you haven't heard of Ernest Cline, you may have seen his 2009 movie Fanboys. Fanboys is about four Star Wars-obsessed friends who travel cross-country with their dying friend to sneak into Skywalker...
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