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Free Job Training for Medical Office Assistants
The City University of New York was awarded $19.86 million through the United States Department of Labor's Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grant program to offer CUNY...
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TeenLIVE at the NYPL in Retrospect: Johnny Iuzzini on September 20, 2012
A Food Network Star! I am a big fan of the Food Network, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to discover that TeenLIVE at the NYPL was hosting Johnny Iuzzini, head judge of Top Chef: Just Desserts,...
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New Plant Patent Color Images at SIBL: Through March 26, 2013
Here are scans of the color plates of U.S. Plant Patents received at SIBL for the weeks of March 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2013.Plant Patent plates for 2012 and 2013 have been listed, with links, in the table...
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Reader's Den: A Visit From the Goon Squad - Week 1
Hello readers. This month the Reader's Den is reading A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.Titles and cover images often give readers a clue as to what lies within a book but I admit I was...
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Fiction Atlas: Harlem 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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Celebrate the Mad Men Season Premiere in ’60s Style
The sixth season of AMC’s hit show Mad Men premieres on Sunday, April 7. If you’re interested in throwing a historically accurate premiere party, or you just want to learn more about the 1960s, NYPL...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - March 31st, 2013
For the week of March 31, 2013 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback non-fiction.If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, download our free app! Use it with your library...
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Booktalking "Cat Poems" by Dave Crawley
I love the cat breed illustrations on the inside of the front and back covers of this book. All of the cats look so happy! The book is full of poems that indicate the nature of cats, and anyone who has...
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LINK: Leveraging Innovations and our Neighborhoods in the Knowledge Economy
As the nation is going through an education reform to Race to the Top and Educate to Innovate, Mayor Bloomberg of the Big Apple is following suit in developing education programs inline with the...
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OMG! I Love That Song! A Catchy Song Playlist
Last year I wrote a popular blog post entitled "OMG! I Love That Song!: A Guilty Pleasure Playlist" where I confessed my song shame only to find out that many of you shared the exact same musical...
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Word From the Big House (Excerpts from a Daily Rikers Journal)
This entry is formatted as a creative, non-fiction essay synthesized from notes taken during my first day volunteering at Rikers Island on January 22nd, 2013. None of the included events are...
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Booktalking "A Light in the Attic" by Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein's poems are humorous; no one can deny this.In "How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes," kids learn how to avoid this onerous chore. Silverstein's advice? Drop one onto the floor. The...
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A List of Lists: April 2013
Visit NYPL's BiblioCommons for these lists and many more. See below for some interesting staff picks from the past couple months, on topics both timely and timeless:Love Game of Thrones? Recommended...
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Embrace Change (and a Dog!) at the Library
April contains National Library Week (April 14-20, 2013). According to the American Library Association website, this event was “first sponsored in 1958… to celebrate the contributions of our nation's...
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Steal This Story Time: Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
March 20, 2013 would have been Mr. Roger's 85th birthday. At the Webster Library we celebrated by having our very own Won't You Be My Neighbor Day. The premise was simple (but as Mr. Rogers says, "Deep...
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Closing the Equal Pay Gap: 50 Years and Counting
President Barack Obama officially declared Tuesday, April 9, 2013 as National Equal Pay Day. In a statement issued Monday, April 8, Obama said, "Women, who make up nearly half of our nation's...
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Catching the 7 Line: The International Express to NYPL!
April is Immigrant Heritage Month. In New York City, April 17th to 24th is Immigrant Heritage Week. In honor of Immigrant Heritage Month, this blog will focus on the multiculturalism of the 7 train.If...
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Shakespeare Week 2013
Carrere & Hastings, architects of the Central Library on 42nd Street (now the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building) designed room 316 as a 19th century picture gallery. On May 22, 1986, the 75th...
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Freedom to Dance: The Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive, Part 2 - White Oak Dance...
When Baryshnikov founded the White Oak Dance Project with choreographer Mark Morris in 1990 the focus was to give choreographers a venue for developing new works, as well as creating a touring arm to...
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New Business Bestsellers: April 2013
Here is a selection of books new to The New York Times list of Business Best Sellers published in the Business Section print edition Sunday, April 7, as well as two books reviewed in the Mutual Funds...
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