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Fiction Atlas: The Lower East Side in Children's Fiction and Picture Books
Where in the world are you reading about? Fiction finds its settings in all corners of the world (and some places only imagined in our minds) but there's something special about fiction set in a...
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Community Service Can Be Very Rewarding... Can It Get You a Scholarship?
It's scholarship season and many students will be thinking about who they should ask for a recommendation letter to help secure a scholarship. If you've been an active volunteer, asking your volunteer...
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New Plant Patent Color Images at SIBL: Through February 26, 2013
Here are scans of the color plates of U.S. Plant Patents received at SIBL for the weeks of February 12, 19 and 26, 2013.Plant Patent plates for 2012 and 2013 have been listed, with links, in the table...
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Meet the Artist: Ner Beck
On view now through April 30th, 2013 at the Mulberry Street Library is NER BECK: An Exhibition of Photographs of Lost and Found New York City Street Art. Ner, a New York City graphic artist and...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - March 10th, 2013
For the week of March 10, 2013 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's series books.If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, download our free app! Use it with your...
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Pic Pick! It's a Book! About a Book?
Today's pic pick is a book about being in a book? A book?It's a book? Wait, I am confused and amused!Yes, you read right, today's pic pick includes books about books, with the words book in the...
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Horse Special Libraries and Museums
This blog post was actually spawned from a visit to Devon Saddlery near Washington, D.C. I saw a poster there for a horse event, which included information on the National Sporting Library. I then...
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Freedom to Dance: The Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive, Part 1
Recently, when friends ask me what collection I am working on and I give my answer — "The Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive" — I've been receiving unexpected reactions. Everyone seems to have a Baryshnikov...
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¡Descubre el secreto de las mujeres felices con Maria Marín de Univisión en...
Maria Marín presentará su último éxito literario Si soy tan buena, ¿por qué estoy soltera?el Sábado, 23 de Marzo a las 4:30pmen la Biblioteca Central del Bronx.¡Ven a compartir con nosotros de esta...
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Special Library in Focus: The National Archives at New York City
I was super excited to tour the National Archives at New York City (part of the National Archives and Records Administration or NARA) on February 12, 2013 because I thought that it would be a terrific...
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Teen Art On Display at Todt Hill Westerleigh
The Todt Hill-Westerleigh Library is currently displaying original art by students at Wagner High School. The artwork on display includes colorfully surrealist backgrounds, surrealist black-and-white...
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Kingsbridge TAG Update: We’re Starting an iPod Drive!
Do you have a gently-used iPod that you'd like to donate to a good cause? Because the Kingsbridge Library's Teen Advisory Group is going to be collecting used iPods on behalf of the Music & Memory...
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Cross Country Travel in 1912
An author telephoned Ask NYPL, the ready reference division of The New York Public Library, stating that she needed the "real facts" as to a cross country railroad trip from Seattle to Groton,...
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Free Job Training in Cable Installation
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations (BWI) helps unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers establish careers in sectors that offer good wages and opportunities for advancement.Currently BWI offers free job...
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Live at the Mulberry Branch! NYC Teen Author Fest
The NYC Teen Author Fest is BACK, and the Mulberry Street Library is happy to host a panel with some of your favorite authors on Monday, March 18th at 6 p.m.! The panel's title is "I'll Take You There:...
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The Face of Intellectual Beauty: The New York Review of Books at 50
First published on February 1st, 1963, The New York Review of Books has been hailed to be one of the world's leading intellectual literary magazines. Known for its sharp and critical insights,...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - March 17th, 2013
For the week of March 17, 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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Booktalking "Ballet for Martha" by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
I was struck by the gorgeous, exalted look of the dancers in the illustration on the cover of this book. Isamu Noguchi, an artist, made the stage set for the ballet, Martha Graham was the...
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Tunes and Time: Excerpts & Poems from a Daily Rikers Journal
"The song remained; Kino knew them, but no new songs were added. That does not mean that there were no personal songs. In Kino's head there was a song now, clear and soft, and if he had been able to...
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Reader's Den: Leaving the Atocha Station, Week 3
Welcome to the third week of reading Leaving the Atocha Stationby Ben Lerner. As you are nearing the end of the novel and as we just passed the anniversary of the terrorist attack on Atocha Station...
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