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Looking For Employment? FEMA is Hiring
In the aftermath of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is hiring local employees to help with the recovery of many communities impacted by the storm.For...
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Programs for Foodies and Friends: The Recipe Project, Soul Food Junkies, Dirt...
Musical recipes... a soul food journey... a history of peanut butter... food bloggers... urban farmers and foragers...Dirt Candy... Julia Child... America's banana king... the hidden financial and...
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NYPLarcade 2012 Video Game Showcase
As we come to the close of another year, I always look forward to the "best of" lists and discovering interesting games I may have missed. Over the next several weeks, NYPLarcade will be showcasing six...
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Collection Therapy: Hospice Series
My professional adventures, rooted in my own fascination with and questions about who we are as humans (how we identify ourselves, how we are layers of each version of our selves over time, how we...
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Jump Start the 2013 NY StartUP! Business Plan Competition
Do you need a BIG push towards realizing that elusive goal of business ownership? If so, the 2013 New York StartUP! Business Plan Competition offers you the option for multiple wins: more than $30,000...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards!
Are you familar with Goodreads? Goodreads is a Free "social cataloging" website that allows people to sign up and list books to create their own catalogs and reading lists, as well as to share book...
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Reader’s Den: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer,...
Oskar Schell, a precocious nine-year-old who lives in New York City, is the protagonist In Jonathan Safran Foer’s popular post-9/11 novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Oskar's active mind keeps...
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Predicting the Future, at the Library
Since my early childhood, I loved going to the library. There were so many strange books, some written in other languages, with pictures, diagrams and magazines with glossy photos of people in far-away...
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Sitting is the New Smoking: Health Books and Programs at Mid-Manhattan
The Mid-Manhattan Library recently hosted an excellent, entertaining program given by author A.J. Jacobs based on his recently published book Drop Dead Healthy. The program was about the year Jacobs...
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Booktalking "Sugar and Ice" by Kate Messner
The Silver Blades Scholarship lands unassuming skater Claire Boucher in Lake Placid. No longer is ice skating a winter activity in the neighborhood skate center that she affectionately refers to as...
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Smoking: A Love Story
I just quit smoking for the fifth time. For me, it's all or nothing. I could never be one of those people — dilettantes! — who are able to smoke socially and then go for indefinite periods of time...
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Transmissions from the Timothy Leary Papers: MPLP, the New Standard?
During the past several years, the archives profession has been rocked by a paper by Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner titled "More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival...
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Interviews with the Rich and Famous: The Brant Mewborn Interview Collection
The Brant Mewborn collection of interviews was recently processed, preserved, and cataloged. This collection is a treasure trove of original interviews — conducted by Mewborn for his background...
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Kids and Community Service
As the holidays are upon us, many teens and their families start thinking about fulfilling community service requirements for school. Winter break is coming up and it might be a good time to get some...
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Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups Featuring Charles Dickens
Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups is a short story read-aloud program that meets every two weeks on Wednesday at lunch time (1:00 p.m). Mixed Bag PM meets at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday every two weeks. In...
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"The Hobbit" and Other Classics in Yiddish
If you're as eager as I am to see the movie version of The Hobbit, then you'll be excited to hear about the brand-new translation of the J.R.R. Tolkien classic into Yiddish. OK, maybe not; possibly you...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - December 9th, 2012
For the week of December 9, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback advice & misc. books.If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, download our free app! Use it...
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Soul Music Tracks from the Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Collection: "I Want...
I listen to many interesting things in my job, and I love it. As an AV cataloger at NYPL (Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound), I have listened to many archival recordings at the library...
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Basketball Season is Here!
It's that time of year again! The 2012-2013 professional and college basketball seasons are in full swing. And, of course, the Bronx Library Center has you covered with plenty of resources to elevate...
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Booktalking "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Lia lives in a world highlighted by food. Never mind her parent's divorce, or her friend Cassie's death of a ruptured esophagus for binging too much. None of that is important if she can control her...
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