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New York Times Read Alikes: August 9, 2015
Finished Go Set a Watchman this weekend? Or The Girl On the Train? Looking for more? Here are this week's read alikes. Enjoy!#1 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee,...
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Inside the Conservation Lab: Treatment of an Engraving on Silk
Calvary - Before TreatmentAs the New York Public Library's Paper Conservator, most of the objects that I treat are flat paper items, such as documents, maps, and prints. Recently, I worked on some...
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新书介绍 - New Chinese Titles
炎炎夏日; 除了正好眠之外, 最大享受莫過於香茶一 盅, 好書一本. 加強知識也好, 休閒閱讀也好, 都是莫大人生快事. 下列介紹的數本書籍, 不知會否引起你的閱讀興趣....
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Break Out the S’Mores: YA Goes to Camp
Whether teens are dashing headlong into the wilderness or shipped off against their will, summer camp provides the perfect backdrop for YA adventure, romance, and drama.I Have a Bad Feeling About...
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Some of My Favorite Foreign Films and TV Shows
Here are some recommendations of foreign films and TV shows from Sweden, the UK, Indonesia, Canada, France, Indonesia, and Mexico.The Swedish film trilogy The Girl with the DragonTattoo is excellent....
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Podcast #72: Lou Reed on Playing Outside the Box
Subscribe on iTunes.It's difficult to overstate the influence of The Velvet Underground. In 1982, Brian Eno famously said of the band's debut album, "Everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies...
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Imagination Academy 2015: Week 4
This post was written by interns Emily Imbarrato and Rosie Shewnarain.M.D Payne was our first author of the fourth and final week of Imagination Academy. He has assisted with many works such as...
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The Digital Villager: Summertime, 1945
August 2, 1945: The high temperature in New York City was 84 degrees, and the second World War was drawing to a close. Where were Greenwich Villagers going to wile away the hot evening hours? Why,...
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Color, Sketch, Doodle and Tangle
Coloring books are all the rage… for the kindergarten set and for grownupstoo. You could say it's a fad, but there's nothing quite like putting pencil or crayon to paper and seeing pure creativity flow...
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陈公博 || Chen Gongbo
A. Chen, Gongbo. Chen Gongbo hui yi lu. Xianggong: Ha Ye Chu Ban She, 2009. ISBN 978-1-936043-16-3 (Chi B Chen, Gongb C) 陈公博。 陈公博回忆录。香港： 哈耶出版社，2009。B. Chen Gongbo. Ku xiao lu. Beijing: Dong Fang...
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Middle Grade Mysteries
Who better to go undetected than a seemingly innocent middle grader. If you have a budding sleuth at home (hint—she probably loves Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated) here are some titles to hone her...
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Building Works: Pre-Apprenticeship Training for Careers in Construction
Building Works is a pre-apprenticeship training that prepares interested candidates for careers in the building trades. In partnership with the NYC District Council of Carpenters Labor Technical...
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Unlikely Beach Reads
An 800-page biography doesn’t immediately spring to mind as the perfect beach read… unless you’re Lin-Manuel Miranda.The playwright and musician read Ron Chernow’s epic portrait of Alexander Hamilton...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: August 2015
The following titles on our Recent Acquisitions Display are just a few of our new books, which are available at the reference desk in the Dorot Jewish Division. Catalog entries for the books can be...
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Hospitality Careers Training Program at CPC
Hospitality careers training program at Chinese American Planning Council (CPC).Learn skills necessary for obtaining various positions in hotels, such as Room Attendant and Houseman.Job placement...
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Children and Nature: A Booklist for Parenting
When you reminisce about your childhood, is it filled with summertime freedom to traverse the neighborhood without your parents always watching? In the book,A Country Called Childhood: Children and the...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of August 9
Bottom Line Construction and Development will present a recruitment on Tuesday, August 11, 2015, 10 am - 2 pm, for Assistant Project Manager (1 opening), Construction Site Helper (3 P/T openings), at...
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August in the Reader's Den: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, Part 1
"All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this."“So woods are...
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HAMILTON: The Archive
Alexander HamiltonIn the musical Hamilton, which opened last night on Broadway, George Washington tells Alexander Hamilton, “You have no control...who tells your story.” At the New York Public...
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The 7 Most Lovable Types of Cats to Librarians
Cats: muse to T.S. Eliot poetry, Caturday stars, and inspiration behind countless hashtags. Need we say more? Over the years, we've ogled our fair share of cute cat photos and now we've narrowed down...
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