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Memorial for Jean Léon Destiné at 92nd Street Y
A memorial is being held for Jean Léon Destiné, master Haitian dancer, choreographer and drummer, who passed on January 22, 2013. This will be at the 92nd Street Y on January 24, 2014, during their...
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AAPD Summer Internship Program Applications Due February 5, 2014
The following information is from the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy.The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) has announced its Summer Internship...
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Children's Literary Salon in Retrospect: Common Core on January 4, 2014
Marcie Colleen, Picture Book Education Consultant, Amie Wright, Selection Supervisor, MyLibraryNYC, and Daryl Grabarek, editor of School Library Journal's (SLJ) enewsletter, Curriculum Connections...
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Picture Books That Will Never Win Awards
Every year the American Library Association bestows the Caldecott Medal upon the most distinguished American picture books of the year. So what happens to all those picture books that were written...
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Booktalking "Weedflower" by Cynthia Kadohata
Sumiko is a 12-year-old Japanese girl living in California in the 1940s. Unfortunately for her, Pearl Harbor has an especially negative impact on her life, due simply to her racial background. The...
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What is Kinokophonography?
The Library for the Performing Arts is delighted to welcome the Kinokophone Collective, a world-wide organization of sound artists, field recordists, and listeners, for their first New York City...
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New York Career Fair February 5
Career Fairs provide the opportunity to connect face–to-face with recruiters who make hiring decisions and can help you network for other positions within a company. National Career Fairs will present...
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5 Tips for Parents of That Precocious Reader
Librarians are frequently asked to recommend titles for that precocious 9-year-old (or, ___ fill in the blank) who can read well above their grade level.First, congratulations on getting past the...
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NYPL on the Road: Archibald Motley and Loie Fuller
Happy New Year! The year has barely started and we are back on the road. And it looks like the amazing NYPL collection will be adding quite a large number of miles this year as we have already received...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - January 19th, 2014
For the week of January 19, 2014 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...
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Booktalking "The Thing About Luck" by Cynthia Kadohata
Twelve-year-old Summer learns much about the farming process and the wheat crop from working on combine farms with her family. Thunder is a 95-pound Doberman pincher who is her constant companion. He...
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This Just In! The Award Winning Jewish Children's Books of 2013
Within the span of a single week two of the top Jewish book awards giving credit to great works of Jewish children's literature posted their latest winners. Here are some of the titles they...
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Don't Stop Believin'... It's Karaoke Night
Karaoke: either don't you get the appeal, or you are completely and utterly obsessed with standing in front of a room of strangers, belting your heart out over the cheesiest of MIDI sounds, guided...
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Booktalking "Vampirina Ballerina" by Anne Marie Pace
Vampirina Ballerina loves dancing, and she does so adorned with a black leotard and black ballet shoes. She also has a black cat and a bat as pets, which are not welcome at ballet class. Plié,...
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MyLibraryNYC: Simultaneous Use eBooks - Copies Always Available!
Available NOW and ready to borrow for educators and students in the MyLibraryNYC school-library initiative: English Language Arts eBooks: Classic and Popular Reading Titles (Gr. 4-12) Simultaneous...
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Focus on Stage Lighting: Faust
This week’s post serves as a caption for the alternative image that the Library’s opening web page has been using when it highlights the Vandamm exhibition, Pioneering Poet of Light. Again, the web...
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WHY WE FIGHT: HIV and AIDS in New York City Neighborhoods - Call for Artists,...
Opportunity to study and collaborate with artist, writer, and activist Avram Finkelstein.In conjunction with the WHY WE FIGHT: Remembering AIDS Activism exhibition, The New York Public Library will be...
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On-Site Recruitment: Bilingual Home Health Aides January 31
The New York State Department of Labor and New Partners Inc. will present an On-Site Recruitment for Bilingual Home Health Aides on Friday, January 31, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. sharp (Appointment not...
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Top 25 Books that Changed History
Top 25 Books that Changed History1984 by George OrwellAesop’s Fables by AesopThe Analects of Confucius by ConfuciusThe Art of War by Sun TzuKing James BibleBury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian...
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Meet the Artist: Peter Salwen
On display until January 31 at St. Agnes Library is Peter Salwen’s “Celebrating the Urban Landscape”. Peter Salwen studied fine art at New York’s High School of Music & Art, Cornell University, the...
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