Court Officer Trainee: Prepare for 2014 Exam
New York State is opening an exam for the position of Court Officer Trainee.New York State Court Officers are highly trained law enforcement professionals responsible for the security and protection of...
View ArticleA Philadelphia Collaboration: The Pinto Brothers' Designs for Catherine...
Guest blog post by Sharon Skeel, curator of the exhibit.A Philadelphia Collaboration: The Pinto Brothers’ Designs for Catherine Littlefield’s Philadelphia Ballet Company, a newly installed exhibit in...
View ArticleBooktalking "The Impossible Knife of Memory" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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View ArticleClassroom Connections: Reconstructing Reconstruction (Gr. 11-12)
Anarchy in Arkansas - The Brooks-Baxter War 1874NYPL Digital Collections Image ID #813756Is an event remembered for what happened—or for how it was recorded?The Reconstruction Era (1863-1877) in United...
View ArticleFrom the Shelves at NYPL: Barbara Byrne-Goldie
Senior Children's Librarian, Barbara Byrn-Goldie, is a life-long New Yorker and it shows. Her energy and enthusiasm telegraph the warm welcome anyone will receive when they visit the New Dorp Branch of...
View ArticleJerry Bock's FIORELLO! Demos
Original Cast of Fiorello! / Photo by Joseph AbelesWhen Jerry Bock died in 2010, his papers (drafts, correspondence, business records, etc.) came to the library as he had planned. A year or so later,...
View ArticleHandmade Crafternoon this Spring at the Library!
Special Weeks - Tulip Week - Girl in costume with tulipsImage ID: 1682599Spring has almost sprung, and with it arrives the latest series of Handmade Crafternoons! Meet fellow crafters, look at books...
View ArticleOn-Site Recruitment: School Safety, Traffic and Police Officer March 3
The New York State Department of Labor and the New Yorl City Police Department will present an On-Site Recruitment Information Session for School Safety Officer, Traffic Enforcement Agent and Police...
View ArticleI Stayed Up Late Reading Cruel Beauty and Why You Should Too
If you want a YA book with demon lovers, fairy tale-Greek mythology mashups, wicked heroines, a castle full of shadowy secrets, and a passionate romance that begins with a murder attempt, look no...
View ArticleBooktalking "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
In 1941, 15-year-old Lina’s life abruptly shifts from thinking about art school and friends to sheer survival when she is wrenched from her bucolic teenage life. One day, NKVD, the Soviet Secret...
View ArticleThink Beyond the Label Online Career Fair March 5
The following announcement is from the United States Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP).Think Beyond the Label will hold an online career fair on March 5, 1-4 p.m....
View ArticleOn-Site Recruitment: Financial Professional Associate in March
The New York State Department of Labor and Prudential Insurance Co. of America will present On-Site Recruitment Information Sessions on Tuesdays, March 4, 11, 18 and 25, 2014 (all Tuesdys in March)...
View ArticleFree Programs at New Dorp Library: March 2014
March is full of sayings! Some people talk about the month as though it's an animal, giving it characteristics (like the "proud" lions that represent NYPL). Some call March a lamb — soft and innocent —...
View ArticleI Heard It Through The Grapevine: Reliving the History of Greenwich Village...
The following post was written by guest blogger, Sue Spiner, Jefferson Market Libary patron and Oral History Interviewer for Your Village, Your Story: Greenwich Village Oral History ProjectPhotographs...
View ArticleLorraine Hansberry: Dreamer Supreme
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, in the midst of the New Negro generation and at the beginning of America’s greatest economic collapse.Politically active, defiant of Jim Crow laws,...
View ArticleOn-Site Recruitment: Firefighters, EMTs, Paramedics and Fire Protection...
The New York State Department of Labor and the New York City Fire Department will present On-Site Recruitment Information Sessions for Firefighters, EMT'S, Paramedics and Fire Protection Inspectors in...
View ArticleMarch in the Reader's Den: Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) is best known by most for her short stories, joining Edgar Allen Poe and O. Henry in high school and college classrooms across the country, their stories studied as models...
View ArticleOscar Nomination for Foreign Film of The Missing Picture, Directed by Rithy Panh
The Dance Division wishes to express our great joy for the Oscar nomination in the Category of Foreign Film for The Missing Picture, directed by Rithy Panh. "This haunting, at times shocking movie—part...
View Article"She Loves You" b/w "I'll Get You" by The Beatles,...
In the summer of 1963, The Beatles were huge in Britain. But this was not the case in America. Two earlier singles that had done well in their home country—"Please Please Me" and "From Me to...
View ArticleOn-Site Recruitment: Home Health Aides in March
The New York State Department of Labor and Quality Health Care, Inc., New Partners, Inc., Sunnyside Citywide Home Care, Preferred Home Care of New York will present On-Site Recruitments for Home Health...
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