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Just Who Was DeWitt Wallace, Anyway?
In the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, there is a reading room with high wooden carved ceiling called the DeWitt Wallace Periodical Reading Room. You may have seen the...
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My Library: Janielle Fermaint
I first met Janielle Fermaint a few weeks ago at a meeting in the Mid-Manhattan Library. She seemed like a person with lots of library experiences to share so I asked if we could meet for an interview....
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The Library on Rikers Island: Bringing Books, Newspapers and Magazines to...
NYPL Has Correctional Librarians? When I heard that the New York Public Library (NYPL) had a correctional librarian, you can bet that I was excited. I have an education background and recreational...
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Metamorphosis of a Song: “What Do the Simple Folk Do?”
I've blogged before about my joy in finding something I never knew existed in the richly varied archival holdings of the New York Public Library, but while processing the James Barton Papers, I had an...
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"Under the Surface" by Tom Wilber
Extraction: ... 3. a. The action or process of obtaining (the constituent elements, juices, etc.) from any substance by heat, pressure, etc. (Oxford English Dictionary - available online with a NYPL...
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Clinging to Books: Reading List 2012
During my vacation from the library, between Christmas and New Year's Day, I learned a remarkable lesson. You can get along very well without NEWS. For a full week, I entered a blissfully news-free...
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Three Auteurs of World Cinema
Three Auteurs of World Cinema starts with six screenings of films by the highly-stylized Hong Kong director, Wong Kar-wai. In March, we move to the meditative works of Soviet/Russian filmmaker Andrei...
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Historic Presidential Speeches in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of...
In honor of President Obama's upcoming inauguration, the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound would like to present a compilation of historic presidential speeches selected from our...
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Comics Aren't Just For Kids!
I used to read 4 panel comics; then I graduated high school. I now read graphic novels!Here's a list of the graphic novels I've read:Click each book cover to access it within the NYPL catalog. Sweet...
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The Reader's Den: Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever"
Thank you for joining us for our final week of Edith Wharton short stories in The Reader's Den!Like "The Other Two" and "Autres Temps," Wharton's 1934 story, "Roman Fever" deals with its characters'...
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English Nature Writers: Gilbert White
I'm a literary Anglophile. There — I've confessed and we can move on. One of their really cool genres is nature writing. They do it in such a quiet and smooth style, as if they've lived in field and...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - January 20th, 2013
For the week of January 20, 2013 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, download our free app! Use it with your...
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English Nature Writers: Richard Jefferies
"Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not." —Walther Besant.Richard Jefferies (1848-1887), though a...
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Julia Child: Her Magnificent Obsession
Is NYPL obsessed with food? Maybe, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The popular Lunch Hour NYC exhibition at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building opened June 2012 and runs through February 17. It...
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Aging Creatively at Mid-Manhattan Library: The Art of Making Poems - Creation...
"She saw the moon, she saw the birds, she saw the little shoes, in summer, before swimming pools filled up — strong and empty and waiting" ~from The ShoesEnter the world of teaching poet and published...
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February 2013 DVD Releases... Reserve Your Copy Now!
In the month of February, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.February is a great month for DVD movie releases that were based on books, with...
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Children's Literary Salon in Retrospect: Ethics in Nonfiction on January 5, 2013
I love nonfiction books since I have learned so much from them in my years as a reader. Whenever I get voraciously curious about a topic, I inevitably turn to the Internet and books to learn more about...
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English Nature Writers: Charles Waterton
Most recently discovered, just last week, is Charles Waterton (1782–1865). I've not read enough to evaluate him as a writer (of which all authors tremble in dread), but he certainly led an interesting...
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New Plant Patent Color Images at SIBL: Through January 15, 2013
Happy New Year! Here are scans of the color plates of U.S. Plant Patents received at SIBL for the weeks of January 1, 8 and 15, 2013.Plant Patent plates for 2012 have been listed, with links, in the...
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Transmissions from the Timothy Leary Papers: Keith Haring Makes a Mind Movie
In the process of imaging digital material from the Timothy Leary papers, my eyes have scanned some curious documents, but sometimes the most intriguing files are the ones I can't read. Timothy Leary...
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