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Booktalking "Art & Max" by David Wiesner
Dinosaur and lizard minds collide in a shared attempt to create art. Arthur decides paint Max a panoply of colors that fragment and shatter all across the page! Later, Arthur does a line drawing of...
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20 of the Most Important Books for Economics before 1940
...and where you can read (most of) them without leaving your computer screen.
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Punk and the [Anti-]Prom
Every year, my interns and I have the pleasure of working with the students at the High School for Fashion Industries in conjunction with the Library’s wonderful Anti-Prom projects, managed by our...
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Guitars, Gigs, Girls (& Guys): Four Lists of Teen Books that Rock!
Books and plots involving music, musicians, fans and bands go together like peanut butter and jelly. In other words, perfectly! They’re pretty much a top 10 sub-genre of YA fiction for me and here’s...
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Author interview with Teri Kanefield: Giving a long-forgotten civil rights...
"...A teenager took control of the situation when adults couldn't..." Barbara Rose Johns was a high school student in 1950's Virginia. After complaining about her school's shoddy state - obviously so...
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Peeling Off The Painted Layers of NYC Walls: Experiments With The Google...
As a web developer who works on a screen and an illustrator that works on paper, I have always admired those who could paint big—often on impossibly large and inconveniently placed walls—only to be...
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Célébrons la Fête nationale du Québec
« La Saint-Jean-Baptiste, célébrée le 24 juin, est devenue officiellement le jour de la fête nationale du Québec le 8 juin 1978. C’est ce jour-là que la Loi sur la fête nationale a été sanctionnée...
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100 Grandiosos y Diversos Libros para Niños en 100 Años
Una lista extraída de los 100 Grandiosos Libros para Niños en 100 Años (100 Great Children’s Books | 100 Years) y compilada por bibliotecarios de la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York. También incluye...
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For the Hale & Hearty!
I recently learned that July has been designated "Park and Recreation Month." I do not begrudge those hearty souls who simply adore inhaling the scent of the soil while lying awake in a perfectly...
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"Same Struggle, Different Difference" - Opportunities for Togetherness
June is Pride Month, and in his June 19 post on the U.S. Department of Labor's blog site, Dylan Orr, Chief of Staff for the Office of Disability Employment Policy, draws parallels between the LGBTQ+...
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Book Expo America 2014
I was happy to attend Book Expo America for the first time a couple of years ago, and since then I have been hooked. The conference designed for book industry professionals will be held in NYC in 2015,...
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Recommandations de lecture pour l'été 2014
Laissez-vous emporter par l’essor estival avec nos recommandations de lecture… Faites le plein de livres auprès de votre bibliothèque de quartier pour un été rempli d'émotions. Consultez le catalogue...
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June 2014 Reader's Den: "The Judgment of Paris" Part 4
In “In Praise of Art Forgeries” Blake Gopnik argues that muddying the ability to authenticate art works, as Warhol’s Factory artists did (sometimes attributed to him, sometimes not) can help to bring...
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Presidential Proclamation - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride...
Lesian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. The Stonewall riots were a...
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Booktalking "Gifted Children" by Ellen Winner
According to Winner, gifted children share three characteristics: precocity, insistence on marching to their own drummers and a rage to master. Savants show extraordinary ability to recall, calculate,...
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100 Books to Reread
Oscar Wilde once said, "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." The process of rereading often allows us an opportunity to notice aspects of the...
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"Where Were You During the Christopher Street Riots?"
Guest blog by Hugh Ryan, Founding Director of The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History.The New York Public Library’s Manuscripts & Archives Division is is home to the Mattachine Society of New York's...
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Education Innovation @ NYPL Summer Institute for Teachers 2014: Integrating...
Love history and literature? Original archival documents? Are you interested in new ways to incorporate primary source materials into your lesson plans?NYPL is looking for you!We are looking for...
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Top 5 Careers for Women to Consider in 2014
The following is the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics blog post authored by Lia Gallitano. According to the U.S. labor statistics, Lia presents top 5 careers for female job seekers...
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Booktalking "The Unruly Queen" by E. S. Redmond
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