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NYPL Recommends: New Graphic Novels for Kids
Our Best Books for Kids committee has been busy reading and reviewing 2016 titles. Here are a few of their favorite new comics and graphic novels.Red’s Planet by Eddie PittmanFrom the creator of...
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#FridayReads Roundup: A Kid-tastic Week
Our Readers Services team focused on the little ones this week, with lists just for kids' books and recommended reading for Family Day.Books for Family History Day at NYPLBring the whole family and...
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Predicting the Future
Many books from Science and Science Fiction genres foretell the future and serve as cautionary tales that demand we think about our actions and the way we live today. Here are a few of those...
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10 Books To Make You Think About the Way You Think
Reflecting on our beliefs and motives, decisions and reactions, helps us grow. Here are a few titles from the arenas of Human and Social Behavior that offer insight into our psyches. [Originally...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of June 19
Enrollment Now Open: SAGEWorks Boot Camp Sunday, June 19 - Saturday, June 25 at 9:30 am. This 2 week training takes place Monday - Friday, 7/25/16 - 8/5/16, 9:30 AM to 2 PM, at the Sage Center, 305 7th...
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On Black Fatherhood and Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, © Austin Hansen, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureKiani Ned, our Communications Intern, writes about the importance of black fatherhood in...
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NYPL Recommends: New Kids Poetry
Our Best Books for Kids committee has been busy reading and reviewing 2016 titles. Here are a few of their favorite new poetry books for kids.Slickety Quick: Poems about Sharks by Skila...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of July 17
Enrollment Now Open: SAGEWorks Boot Camp Sunday, July 17 - Saturday, July 23 at 9:30 am. This 2 week training takes place Monday - Friday, 7/25/16 - 8/5/16, 9:30 AM to 2 PM, at the Sage Center, 305 7th...
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NYPL Recommends: New Nonfiction for Kids
Our staff have been busy reading and reviewing 2016 titles. Here are a few of their favorite new nonfiction books for kids.Science Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean...
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Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar: Hugh Ryan
Hugh RyanWe are pleased to announce that Hugh Ryan has been selected as the New York Public Library's Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2016-2017. Hugh Ryan is a curator and journalist based in...
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On Black Aesthetics: The Black Arts Movement
Young Black Panthers, © Bob Fitch As we continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Black Power Movement at the Schomburg, Kiani Ned, Communications intern at the Center, discusses the role of...
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Stonewall in Pictures
The announcement of President Obama's recent designation of the site of the June 28, 1969 Stonewall uprising as a national monument prominently featured LGBT historical materials from the Library's...
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Staying Safe and Having Fun With Pokémon GO
I sprayed myself with sunblock, dressed comfortably for walking, and packed water, an iPod for listening to podcasts, and an extra battery for my iPhone. Then I headed to Inwood Hill Park to see if I...
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Booktalking "A Fractured Mind" by Robert Oxnam
Imagine constantly fading into different personas without conscious awareness. Having large gaps in your memory that you cannot explain. Other people commenting to you about things that you did of...
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Elisa's Favorite Quotes From Recent Reads
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” —Joyce Carol Oates, "Literature as Pleasure, Pleasure as...
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New York Times Read Alikes: July 24, 2016
If you are among the many readers who read one of The New York Times top five fiction titles and want more of the same adventure or romance or thrills, we have some suggestions for you.#1...
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Challenge Yourself to #Read20 Every Day
Team up with the Library this summer and challenge yourself or your family to #Read20 minutes a day and fight ‘summer slide’!When you engage your brain every day for 20 minutes by reading, your brain...
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Podcast #121: Derek Walcott on Hemingway, Travel, and First Love
Subscribe on iTunes.Nobel Prize winner and MacArthur Fellow Derek Walcott is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. Born in Saint Lucia, Walcott has written over twenty books of poetry, drama,...
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Michael Meyer Recalls His Year as a Cullman Center Fellow
Each year, The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offer fellowships to individuals whose work will benefit from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman...
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Punctuate This: Grammar Books to Fuel Your Inner Nerd
I or me? Affect or effect? Desert or dessert? Grammar isn't always intuitive. In fact, it can often be baffling. But like any game, grammar operates based off of rules learned in action. It isn't just...
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