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Discover How NYPL Preserves its Collections and Be Inspired to Preserve Your...
The American Library Association National Preservation Week is taking place between April 21–27, 2013. As part of this annual effort, NYPL is joining institutions across the country in highlighting the...
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Read with Abandon This Weekend
Stop staring at your computer screen, drop all your mobile devices, and head to your local library branch: today is national Drop Everything And Read (D.E.A.R.) day! Need some suggestions for reading...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - April 7th, 2013
For the week of April 7, 2013 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's middle grade.If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, download our free app! Use it with your library...
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Shakespeare and Teens: "The Juliet Club"
Well, it's April and time for Shakespeare Week. And once again, to read a great novel—The Juliet Club, by Wertheim writer Suzanne Harper.  Here is the blog post about it from 2 years ago.  It (the...
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Booktalking "The Mutual Funds Book" by Alan Northcott
Want to start investing in mutual funds? This is completely the book for you.Not sure you want to invest, but you want to learn more about personal finance? This is your book.Want to ensure that you...
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La veuve Boivin: A Woman at the Beginning of the Music Publishing Industry
Consider this a late contribution to this year's Womens' History Month.When most people think of the involvement of women in music they probably think of performers or composers. To be sure, women...
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Focus On: Recent Acquisitions in the Manuscripts Division
The Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library supports historical research. Each year, individuals with all levels of library experience arrive at the Division's Reading Room to...
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Not Your Grandmother's Hamlet
That is, the kick-off to Shakespeare Week—April 15 to 20 here at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Schizophrenia, nomadism, Lacan (oh the joys of serendipity—I just ordered his Television: A...
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Shakespeare in the Rose Main Reading Room
Most of the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman building are closed-stacked, i.e., we bring them to you. But on the 3rd floor, the Rose Main Reading Room maintains open, very open stacks of about...
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Booktalking "Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan"...
Writing a personal check... purchasing items online... throwing out the trash, and bringing in the mail. You probably did not think that these activities could be putting you at risk, but you could be...
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Musical of the Month: Listen to Very Good Eddie
I'll be posting a April's Musical of the Month later this week, but before I do, I wanted to share the results of a little experiment.I recently discovered a new music streaming subscription called...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - April 14th, 2013
For the week of April 14, 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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Dorothy Loudon's Luv Letters
Life on the road was a hard-knock life for Dorothy Loudon, who spent much of the sixties traveling to far flung locations all over North America to perform in her cabaret act and, later, in the touring...
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Booktalking "Tessa Masterson Will Go to the Prom" by Emily Franklin & Brendan...
Tessa and Lucas, friends forever; however, Lucas wants more and Tessa does not. Lucas asked Tessa to go to the prom with him in a dramatic way; Tessa, meanwhile, is infatuated with deli Josie. Tessa's...
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Musical of the Month: The Fig Leaves Are Falling
A guest post by Ben West.Strange as it may seem given its frank narrative and its traditional sound, TheFig Leaves Are Fallingis not a conventional musical. This colorful, vivacious and disarmingly...
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The Art Underfoot: NYC Manhole Covers
Art can be found in many places: on the walls at home, in museums and galleries. We walk through New York City and cities around the world looking at buildings, parks and street life, rarely looking...
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Transmissions from the Timothy Leary Papers: Experiments in Teletype to...
As both a psychologist and innovator, Timothy Leary was interested in the role technology played in transmitting human thoughts and feelings. Although his earlier research focused on the assessment of...
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Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories
The April 2013 theme for Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups is 'Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories.' One hundred fifty years ago the American Civil War (1861-1865) was in mid-course, and April was a...
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My Top Six Earthshaking Earth Day Stories of 2013
Green Medicine of the Year: Healing PlantsGoing outside for a spring stroll? Watch where you step! That dandelion you're walking on has a distinguished medicinal history dating back centuries. Why not...
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Booktalking "Spirit Horses" by Tony Stromberg
Breathtaking. That is the first word that comes to mind when flipping through the spectacular visual art in this book. The dark cover photo of a relaxed, beautiful flaxen chestnut horse sets the tone...
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