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Podcast #127: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Walter Mosley on Empire, English, and...
Subscribe on iTunes.Six-time NBA champ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar may be best known as the leading scorer in professional basketball of all time. Yet Abdul-Jabbar is also a major editorialist and an author...
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Work It: A Labor Day Quiz
For many Americans, Labor Day demarcates the end of summer. It's a day of last barbecues, last beach trips, and last swims. However, Labor Day is more than just an excuse for a three-day weekend. Do...
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README: More things to read on your phone
We are excited to share this issue of README, an e-newsletter covering digital happenings from around The New York Public Library. If you would like to receive future issues by email, add your email...
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A Decade of Exhibits at the Science, Industry and Business Library: 1999-2009
Heally Hall, 1996: Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects llcWhen SIBL opened 20 years ago, Healy Hall—the grand interior two-story space punctuated by a dramatic spiral staircase—was its most...
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Explore Updates to NYPL's Website
Beginning today, the Library is introducing a new home page and other website changes that intend to make it easier for our online users to find what they are looking for while also helping them to...
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World Literature: A Reading List from Open Book Night
It’s August and it is time to travel, so we invited our readers at Open Book Night to share their favorite World Literature. Readers recommended books from Norway to Egypt, and Japan to the Dominican...
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Ep. 43 "I Really Love the Library" | Library Stories
It's no fun feeling disoriented in school, Yuridia recalls, so she was thrilled to get extra help from a free tutor at the Port Richmond Library to understand and finish her homework. Her after-school...
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A Happy, Healthy, Gluten-Free New Year
Punica granatum = Grenadier à fruits doux. [Inside part of ripe pomegranate]. By Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). NYPL Rare Books, Image ID 1109258September is an opportune time to try some festive...
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A Bottle in a Cosmic Ocean: Listen to the Music of The Golden Record
On September 5, 1977, a tiny planet called Earth launched the Voyager 1 into the cosmos. It has now traveled further into space than any other man-made object in history. On-board this spacecraft was...
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Drinking Whiskey in the Whiskey Rebellion: The Soldiers' Perspective
An overwhelming sense of déjà vu probably washed over the western Pennsylvania countryside in 1794. Less than twenty years after revolting against British tax policies that they deemed unfair,...
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Miss "The Night Of?" Here are 6 Books For You
Image via HBO.If you’re as much a fan as we are of The Night Of, HBO’s new whodunit that examines the aftermath of a gruesome and mysterious murder, then you probably know about Richard Price, who...
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A Singular September @ SIBL
Patrons of SIBL's robust programming options will find this September particularly rich, because NYPL's business library is compressing its fall special events lineup into the first six weeks of the...
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(Literary) Disco Dancing: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 20
Welcome to The Librarian Is In, the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.Subscribe on iTunes | Get it on Google PlayFrank and Gwen are joined by Julia Pistell,...
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6 Graphic Novels to Read if You Loved Batgirl Volume 1, Batgirl of Burnside
Batgirl of Burnsideby Brenden Fletcher is a fun cybertech reincarnation of Batgirl. What makes this latest incarnation different from other superhero books is that it incorporates a social media twist...
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1,000 Paper Cranes for 53rd Street Library
The staff and patrons at the 53rd Street Library have embarked on an ambitious project to fold 1,000 paper cranes by International Day of Peace, which is September 21. Sadako and the Thousand Paper...
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What Are You Reading? Paula Poundstone Edition
Paula Poundstone began her career like so many comedians: busing tables for stage-time at open-mic nights and even hitting the road on a Greyhound bus to tour different open mics around the country....
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Evaluating the Struggle for Equality and Civil Rights in the U.S. with the...
Little Rock Nine and Friends at the NAACP's 49th annual convention in Cleveland, 1958. Image ID: 1953739The NAACP Papers—an archival collection of approximately two million historical documents from...
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Booktalking "Your Evil Twin" by Bob Sullivan
The proliferation of the Internet and networked technology has greatly increased the public's access to information. Unfortunately, this very fact has made it easier for identity thieves to strike. The...
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NYPL #FridayReads: The Reader's Best Friend Edition September 2, 2016
During the week, it can be tough to stay on top of everything. On Fridays, though, we suggest kicking back to catch up on all the delightful literary reading the internet has to offer. Don’t have the...
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Small Islands, Big Carnival: West Indians in the USA
Summer 2016 has unofficially come to a close (it actually ends September 22). We customarily mark the beginning of the summer season with Memorial Day and its end with Labor Day. Immediately after...
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