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August 2012 DVD Releases... Reserve Your Copy Now!
In the month of August, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's new Catalog. Highlights include box office hits The Hunger Games and Think Like a Man. If...
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Meet the Curator: Yulia Tikhonova
Something MAPnificent is happening at Mulberry Street Library through August 27, 2012. MAPnificent features paintings, works on paper and sculpture that reflect the artists' concerns for the current...
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Transmissions from The Timothy Leary Papers: The "Archival Catastrophe" of 1975
Interview featuring Michael Horowitz. I touched on the saga of Timothy Leary’s legal problems in my last blog post involving his escape from prison for a drug conviction and his attempt at seeking...
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¡Ya la Fiesta no Termina con la Descarga Gratis de Música Latina!
¿Sabias que puedes descargar gratis hasta tres canciones por semana a través del servicio electrónico de Freegal de la Biblioteca? Para descargar una gran variedad de música popular latina de antes y...
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An Introduction to the Dorothy Loudon Papers
Dorothy Loudon would have made a fine archivist. As it happens, Ms. Loudon chose another line of work. An acclaimed nightclub singer, television performer, and theater actress, Loudon's most famous...
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July 2012 NYPL Blog Highlights
July blogs were as bright as fireworks and as cool as ice pops on a hot summer day. Oh say did you see... how to rescue your files from ancient floppy disks. how to find word meanings. how to crochet...
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Cycling in the City
Cycling is not only great for your health; it’s better for the environment and less expensive than other forms of travel. Currently the city is working toward making NYC more friendly to cyclists and...
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Magic, a Fantasy... Plus Some Sources
[Note: The following is an imaginative work of fiction. For some decidedly non-fiction resources for your own fantastic feats, see below.] The opening article in the 1836 edition of the Magician's...
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Reader's Den: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton - Week 4
Our final discussion will cover Chapters 13 - 15 of The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton. Mystery Summer continues in August with an online discussion of Dashiell Hammett's classic 1930 novel...
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New Plant Patent Color Images at SIBL: Through July 31, 2012
Here are scans of the color plates of U.S. Plant Patents received at SIBL for the weeks of July 17, 24 and 31, 2012. These follow from the earlier postings of Plant Patent plates, which are listed,...
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Booktalking "Bunheads" by Sophie Flack
Bunheads by Sophie Flack, 2011 19-year-old Hannah is a dancer with the Manhattan Ballet company. Jacob is her musician boyfriend who goes to NYU, and Otto is the one who hands out promotions and...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - August 5th, 2012
For the week of August 5, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice & misc. books. If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, there is a free app! Use it with...
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Wait for Me, World: The Kander, Ebb and Wasserman Musical that Never Was
Most archivists will tell you that the best part of our job is the feeling of possibility. Every time you open a box and start digging through it, you might find that something amazing — you might be...
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Free Job Training in Green Advanced Manufacturing
Are you 24 or over and looking for a career in the green advanced manufacturing industry? Green Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative (GAMC), a partnership between New York City College of Technology’s...
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Roz Chast Explains the Universe
Last month, when researchers at the Large Hadron Collider discovered a particle that behaved suspiciously like the Higgs boson, the theoretical particle that helps explain the existence of matter in...
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Free Job Training for Commercial Drivers
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations helps jobless and working poor New Yorkers establish careers in sectors that offer good wages and opportunities for advancement. Currently BWI offers free job training...
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Between the Covers: Adult Summer Reading Book Reviews
The Summer is winding down, but Summer Reading throughout the New York Public Library is still in full swing and our readers at St. George Library Center are taking full advantage of their joy for...
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Silly Sushi Makes a Big Splash
This summer the staff of the Children's Center at 42nd Street planned an array of food-related craft activities to help highlight the ongoing Lunch Hour NYC exhibition. We started with bean/lentil...
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Kids are Authors at the 67th Street Library!
The fourth and final week of the 67th Street Library's Dream Big Imagination Academy has ended with a bang and several short stories! Each day from Tuesday through Friday these promising young writers...
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Reader's Den: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Welcome to the New York Public Library's Reader's Den, a monthly online book discussion. For August, we will be reading Dashiell Hammett’s novel The Maltese Falcon as part of Mystery Summer. You can...
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