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Presentación del Nican Mopohua y Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Esta es la traducción del blog en ingles de Thomas Lannon.Lengüetas primarias. Entre los muchos tesoros de la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York estan los documentos que aparecieron cuando el Nuevo Mundo...
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Bewitched, Bothered and Betrothed: An Intro to Gaslamp Fantasy
"Gaslamp Fantasy" is essentially a sub-genre of Steampunk Fantasy. But, whereas Steampunk often involves gadgets and mad scientists in an alternate Victorian universe, Gaslamp stories are set in a...
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David Amram's New York
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is thrilled to celebrate the acquisition of composer David Amram's archive. Amram was the paramount musician to the Beat Generation, having...
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Beatles Overload? 5 Beatlesque Bands You Should Hear
You can't help it, you are just so jazzed that it is The Beatles' 50th Anniversary of their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show that you've grown your moptop, dusted off your Hofner Bass and even broke...
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Branch Special Collections
Several branches throughout the three boroughs have special collections that focus on local history or are of special interest to their respective communities. Bronx Nautical Collection City Island...
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A Black Tulip Comes to the Pforzheimer Collection, Part 2
…To continue: you will recall that I was embarking on an attempt to explain the note at the bottom of p. 11 of Original Poetry byVictor and Cazire in the copy owned by the New York Public Library. To...
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Sampler of Songs from "Are You With It?"
Last December, Ben West, artistic director of UnsungMusicalsCo., wrote a guest Musical of the Month blog post to accompany both the first-ever publication of the libretto of Are You With It? and a...
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Booktalking "Samphire Song" by Jill Hucklesby
Visions of rides with her father keep flashing into 14-year-old Jodie’s brain. It’s hard to envision a future without him. That, and the frightening panic attacks that she avoids telling anybody about....
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Archiving Amram: The Beauty of Now
This month the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts celebrates composer David Amram with three free public programs: a screening of the film David Amram: the First 80 Years – April 26, 1...
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Three Books to Catch Toddlers' Eyes
I recommend these exciting books to read to toddlers, they can sing at the top of their lungs, dancing around the room, laugh at the silly words, clap hands or just enjoy the bright colorful...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of April 28
The Department of Labor and The Fire Department of the City of New York will present an On-Site Recruitment information session for Fire Fighters, EMT's and Paramedics and Fire Protection Inspectors on...
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Booktalking "Prom" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Just a dance or the best night of your life? Trying on innumerable dresses. Losing weight. Hiring a limo. Stressing about asking someone or being asked to the prom. Corsages, boyfriends, girlfriends,...
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Read All About It! New York Public Library's Cameo Appearances
With New York City the undisputed heart of children's book publishing, more American children's book authors and illustrators live here than anywhere else in the world. Naturally it then stands to...
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Booktalking "When I Grow Up" by Al Yankovic
It is show-and-tell day in Mrs. Krupp's class, and eight-year-old Billy has a lot to share. The topic of today's project: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"Billy could be the greatest chef that...
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Celebrate Poetry All Year: Poetry Collage and Blackout Poetry
Though National Poetry Month is coming to an end, you can continue to celebrate all year long! You don't have to read poetry to celebrate; you can create it instead.Last week I filled in at our weekly...
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A Prophecy Before Our Time: The Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic Opens in...
Guest post Perry Brass.By 1973, after the Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic, the first clinic for gay men on the East Coast founded by Leonard Ebreo, Marc Rabinowitz, and myself, had been operating for a...
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Our Favorite, Most Absorbing, Compelling, and Pleasurable [True!] Tales of...
The NYPL Milstein Division of United States History, Local History & Genealogy recommends our favorite, most readable, most memorable New York City nonfiction. These are the true stories of New...
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Booktalking "Fifteen Love" by Nicole Leigh Shepherd
Fifteen-year-old ninth-grade identical twins Maggie and Bella Anderson did not know what was in store for them when they met Coach Kasinski. Coach K, as she did not appreciate being called, liked her...
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Stefan Zweig's New Life
Stefan Zweig is experiencing a major comeback in the English-speaking world. The works of fiction of this Austrian Jewish writer (1881-1942) are being reissued in new translations, including his novels...
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Reference Book List: A Selection of 'Classic' Artist Manuals
I have been consulting (and collecting) artist manuals for about 25 years. When I was an art student in the 1980s, I used them to learn about different techniques. Later, I became an art store clerk,...
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