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Podcast #67: Werner Herzog on Greece and Wrestlemania
Subscribe on iTunes.At this point, it's safe to call Werner Herzog a cinema legend. Born in Munich, the director, screenwriter, and producer has directed sixty-seven films. He has won four awards at...
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A Film From Afar: You Are the Apple of My Eye
There are only constant three things in life that have the ability to never get old, and cause everyone to gush indescribable joy: baseball, foreign cinema, and anything inside the genus of comic...
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Revolutionary Reading
Sewing the American FlagIn 2013, I created "Celebrate America", a reading list intended to introduce young children to American history. As we get set to celebrate Independence Day again, I decided...
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美国, 美国 (Part Three)
移民到美國, 無論是初來步到或已落地生根, 每人背後都有一段故事. 七月四日是美國國慶. 在這歡樂的日子, 讓我們細細回味過去的甘苦, 以敞開心扉面对美好的將來.美利坚刀锋 : 首度揭开无人机与世界尽头的战争马克·马泽蒂978751044952920...
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July Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
A Hasidic rebel…a new understanding of travel…the rise, fall, and rise of Washington Heights…New York City as seen on the streets and underground…a real life Gatsby…mid-century Caribbean glamour…Lower...
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ACRL/NY Mentoring and New Librarian Discussion Group, June 2015
The New York chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries has a mentoring and new librarians meeting twice a year. It is a great chance to meet other new librarians, more experienced...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of July 5
H&R Block will present a recruitment on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 10 am - 2 pm, for Tax preparer (10 Seasonal openings) at the Bronx Workforce 1 Career Center, 400 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY...
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CMP: Career Overview and Opportunities With Time Warner Cable
CMP (Chinatown Manpower Project) presents a recruitment event, Career Overview and Opportunities with Time Warner Cable, on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 10 am - 12 pm, at CMP, 70 Mulberry Street, 3rd...
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Booktalking "Stronger Than You Know" by Jolene Perry
Fifteen-year-old Joy is trying to transcend her troubled past. Memories of a mother that she desperately wishes would stop being an alcoholic or go away flood her brain. She did not protect her...
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Romantic Interests: Sex, Lies and Poetry Redux, Part 2
Detail from William Elmes's satirical print, "A Kick Up in a Great House"; here, the Queen mounts a bucking John Bull, a symbol of the common British person. This post is a continuation of Part 1 of a...
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Booktalking "Wild Hearts" by Jessica Burkhart
Brie Carter is one of those kids who never makes friends because her family is constantly uprooted by her father's business. Her sister, Kate, no longer lives with them, but she is a reassuring...
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Historic Central Park Maps
Martel's New York Central Park, 1864. Image ID: 55031I recently completed a project in which I had the pleasure of cataloging a large number of NYPL’s historic maps of Central Park. Several of these...
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Finding Yiddish Music: A Quick Online Guide
Molly Picon. Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library. Image ID: TH-43802Use these resources to find Yiddish music online and in libraries and archives: search for sheet music, audio...
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Essential David Lynch Reads
Director David Lynch's aesthetic is so ipso facto that an adjectival form of his name floats around in the idiom of certain culture hounds for those rare occasions when something must be described...
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Podcast #68: Sally Mann on Ethical Photography and Stories
Subscribe on iTunes.Photographer Sally Mann's books include Immediate Family, What Remains, and Proud Flesh. Primarily working in black and white portraiture, Mann imbues her work with luminosity and a...
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Can You Grok This? Stories of Strangers in a Strange Land, Part 1
July 7 would have been the 98th birthday of Robert Heinlein, the consummate science-fiction author best known for 1961 classic, Stranger in a Strange Land. In that story, a human man raised on Mars...
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The Early Proposed Railways for New York City, Part 2
Continued from The Early Proposed Railways for New York City, Part 1.In 1870 Alfred Elt Beach put up $350,000 of his own money to enable his Beach Pneumatic Transit Company to push their pneumatic tube...
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If You Like Mo Willems...
We love Mo Willems for so many reasons: 1.) He is silly 2.) His books are character driven 3.) He uses art to make his characters expressive, 4.) His books beg the reader to participate in the...
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Remembering Ruby Dee, Celebrating the American Negro Theatre
Our former pre-professional, Farrah Lopez, pays tribute to American Negro Theatre alum Ruby Dee as we celebrate its 75th anniversary. Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee in the stage production Purlie Victorious....
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Rock 'n' Read: No Joy
Photo of No Joy courtesy of Windish Agency "It took me three tours to complete Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, which is a heavy book to lug around across the world."Montreal shoegazers No Joy have an emotional...
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