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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: February 2016
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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How We Expand Access to Our Public Domain
This is one of a series of blog posts related to the NYPL Public Domain Release: discover the collections and find inspiration for using them in your own research, teaching, and creative practice. Last...
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We Love Men! The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 5
Welcome to The Librarian is In, the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.Subscribe on iTunesTaboo subjects in adult and children's books alike abound on our...
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Teen Heroes for the 21st Century
The 1962 publication of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first comic book to feature Spider-Man, was a groundbreaking moment in the history of superhero comics.The popular characters of the previous 24 years...
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Free Job Training for Culinary Arts and Restaurant Industry
Are you passionate about starting a restaurant career but do not have the experiences that hiring restaurants usually require?Do you already have some restaurant experience but want to enhance your...
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Beyond Bollywood
Bollywood: the very word conjures up images of larger-than-life, luridly colored, Photoshopped posters advertising the latest releases from studios in Bombay. Replete with clichéd stories,...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of February 21
SAGEWorks Boot Camp - Enrollment Now Open. SAGEWorks assists people 40 years and older in learning relevant, cutting-edge job search skills in a LGBT-friendly environment. This 2 week training takes...
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Librarians on ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Updated Feb. 19, 2016:We’re saddened to learn of the death of Harper Lee at age 89. Her work—especially her incredibly vivid characters—touched the lives of millions of readers, including many of us...
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Announcing the Broadway Hackathon 2016
Dear actors, designers, directors, playwrights, producers, and stage managers:We’re pretty sure there’s been a time when you’ve thought, “There’s gotta be an app for that,” searched on Google Play or...
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Live from the Reading Room: Nathan Woodard to Alice Childress
Live from the Reading Room: Correspondence is a podcast series that aims to share interesting and engaging letters written by or to key historical figures from the African Diaspora.Each episode...
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Pick Your Book Club at Woodlawn Heights
Here at Woodlawn Heights we have five, yes five different Book Clubs offering a different title every month.While four are for adults, we have a book club just for kids ages 8-12.The Woodlawn Book...
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We'll Come to You: A Roundup of 2015 Outreach at SIBL
A library can recruit and serve its users in myriad ways. At the Science, Industry and Business Library we reach out virtually through social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter and blogs) and our...
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100 Years (Or So) Ago in Dance: Florence Mills
Florence Mills. Image ID: 5105186In 1916, five years before her big break in Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's musical Shuffle Along, Florence Mills performed in Chicago’s Panama Cafe as part of the...
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New York Times Read Alikes: February 28, 2016
Are you in the mood for more gritty dystopian fiction with brooding flawed characters? More twisty, unpredictable suspense series? More British love stories? More police drama starring women...
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Podcast #100: The Future of Black History
In February, we observe Black History Month. For this week's episode of the New York Public Library Podcast, we present our one hundredth episode, and there's no way we'd rather celebrate than by...
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What's Your Name?
If you have not seen Maya Angelou singing "The Name Song" on Sesame Street, go hereimmediately. When you come back, here are some children's books whose namesakes are proud to be who they are as well....
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Booktalking "The Word Collector" by Sonja Wimmer
Luna lived in the sky where she collected words like people collect baseball cards. She loved language, and she found words beautiful, emotional... and sometimes ticklish. Words fed her soul like food...
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All American Boys: The Real Best YA Book of 2015
By now I'm sure you've combed through all the lists put out this year by various sources, trying to get a jump the best Young Adult books of 2015. And I will say, 2015 was a great year! As someone who...
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Ep. 18 "Life as It Should Be" | Library Stories
Álvaro Enrigue was working on his latest novel when a colleague suggested he apply to the Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Doubtful he would be accepted, Álvaro...
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Books and E-Books for the Romantically Challenged
Free image Love (Free photobank torange.biz) / CC BY 4.0Valentine’s Day has recently passed. If your Valentine’s Day didn’t go swimmingly, this may be a natural point in time to do a relationship...
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