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The March Madness Reading List
It's that time of year again. No, not Christmas or Valentine's or a forgotten anniversary. It's time to fill out the brackets for your office pool.March Madness begins March 19th! Whether you're busy...
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Back to Basics: Letter Writing at the Aguilar Adult Learning Center
At the Aguilar Adult Learning Center, ESOL students are getting to know other students from around the city! They are pen pals with students in one ESOL evening class at CUNY's City Tech Adult Learning...
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Back to Bradbury
"I wouldn't want the nursery locked up," said Peter coldly. "Ever.""Matter of fact, we're thinking of turning the whole house off for about a month. Live sort of a carefree one-for-all existence.""That...
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What's Next? WestlawNext: A Legal Resource for NYPL
Free legal resources on the Internet are great for everyone's needs. Until they aren't. So, what do you do next?Libraries — public libraries — are for many a community the place where citizens expect...
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Novedades para Niños/New Books for Kids
Comparta con nosotros esta breve selección de libros de ficción y no-ficción recientemente adquiridos que contienen adivinanzas, cuentos y temas informativos para niños en edad escolar. A brief...
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Booktalking "The Peanut-Free Cafe" by Gloria Koster
Simon loved peanut butter and only three other foods. Like many kids, it was hard for him to break his eating routine. Luckily for him, peanut butter was plentiful at Nutley School. The principal was...
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Supernatural Romance: Cassie's Picks!
Cassie, a 6th grader, is an avid reader and has pretty much read everything worth reading in the Seward Park teen collection. In fact, to find her something she hasn't read usually takes a lot of...
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Free Job Training: Allied Health Career Pipeline Program
Hostos Community College's Department of Continuing Education and Professional Studies of the City University of New York (CUNY) was awarded a Health Profession Opportunity Grant (HPOG) from the U.S....
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Think Japan is all Manga, Sushi, and Pocky Sticks?
Harajuku? Geisha? Robots? Awesome! Japanese culture has been an obsession of mine for a while now, as well as for the teenagers at my branch, so when we recently had the opportunity to invite Lucia...
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The Beauty of Snail Mail
On my first day as an intern at the New York Public Library, Nick Higgins, the Associate Director for Community Outreach, handed me a stack of legal-sized white envelopes, a letter opener, and a...
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Reader's Den: Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner Wrap up
I hope you have enjoyed reading Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner. Listed below are suggestions of novels, poetry and non-fiction that might also be of interest to you.The Tennis-Court Oath by...
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Booktalking "The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse" by Eric Carle
Ever wanted a yellow cow? How about a green salamander? Or a turquoise frog? You will not find any salamanders or frogs in this book. And if you did, they would not be green or blue. However, the...
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The Sound of Trade: MondoMusica New York 2013
Today I'm going to write about trade shows. I'm going to use as an example the recent trade show/exhibition for the violin (really, string instrument) trade, MondoMusica New York 2013.What are Trade...
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2013 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Winners
Every year the Young Adult Librarian Association (YALSA) awards the William C. Morris YA Debut Award for the best novel by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - March 24th, 2013
For the week of March 24, 2013 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice & misc.If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, download our free app! Use it with your...
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Hiring Our Heroes Job Fair
Hiring Our Heroes, a program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, was launched in March 2011 as a nationwide initiative to help veterans and military spouses find meaningful employment working...
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Choral Notes: Happy 70th Anniversary to Oklahoma! (The Musical and the Song)
OOOOOOOOOO! KLAHOMA!As a native Oklahoman and former "Sylvie" in my high school's production of Oklahoma!, there is no sweeter sound than the joyous shouts and celestial harmonies of the massive hit...
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Audubon Day is April 26th
Many have heard about slow food, but fewer still about slow looking. This Wall Street Journal article from 2011 coined the term, referring to LSU's Hill Memorial Library and the way in which they...
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La Crianza de los Hijos en Español/Parenting in Spanish
Si eres padre o madre, sin duda has experimentado algunos de los eventos descritos en los libros que recomendamos a continuación. Si estás esperando un hijo, te interesaría conocer lo que es cierto o...
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Harnessing the Power of Music
Oliver Sacks once said in his book, Musicophilia:"The power of music whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace..."Music has incredible power....
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