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Booktalking "The Sundown Rule" by Wendy Townsend
Louise's mother is out of the picture, and her dad is on a writing assignment for National Geographic in Brazil. She finds herself staying with Aunt Kay and Uncle Jack for the summer. The best thing...
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Dressing for Interview Success: Tips from CEIS
Career and Education Information Services can give you advice on dressing for your interview and thinking about the image you want to project. "Struggling to decide on an outfit for your upcoming job...
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November Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
Come join us for an Author @ the Library talk this November at Mid-Manhattan Library to hear distinguished non-fiction authors discuss their work and answer your questions. Author talks take place at...
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舉頭望明月：劉培基自傳 == Ju tou wang ming yue: Liu PeiJi zi zhuan
舉頭望明月：劉培基自傳 == Ju tou wang ming yue: Liu PeiJi zi...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of November 3
Americare Inc. will present a recruitment for Home Health Aide (10 openings) on Monday, November 3, 2014, 10 am - 2 pm, at Flushing Workforce 1 Careeer Center, 138- 60 Barclay Avenue, 2nd Floor,...
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Bronx Job Fair: Tuesday, November 19, 2014
Job Fair: Tuesday, November 19, 2014. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. (doors open at 9 a.m.)UP TO 200 JOBS IN THE BRONX Entry level, Mid level, Executive level JobsCase Planner, Juvenile Family Worker, Mental...
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While You Wait For "Station Eleven" Why Not Try...
Like Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, these post-apocalyptic novels take readers on compelling journeys of lost worlds, lost lives, and survival.The Bird Box by Josh Malerman Something is out...
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Medium Rare: Ghostly Stories from Rare Books
On Halloween, we pull back the curtain between real and unreal, reveling in the spooky, mysterious, and inexplicable. What better way to celebrate the holiday than communing with the spirits and ghosts...
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Imagining Ichabod Crane: Illustrated Editions in Rare Books
Halloween approaches here in the Rare Book Division, and in addition to planning my costume (I'll be dressing as a librarian, naturally), I've also been exploring Washington Irving's classic and...
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Jock Reads and Flicks
Girl Wrestler is a documentary from 2003 that still has resonance today. Tara's interest in the sport of wrestling is limited by cultural expectations. Since there are so few girls involved in...
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From the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives: Blood, Rats, and Scream Queens!
It's late October and the Halloween season that seemingly began when one could still walk around in shorts, is in full force. Ghosts, skeletons, carved pumpkins, spiders, and cob webs are everywhere....
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Expect. Employ. Empower. with Data
According to the Department of Labor, between 2010 and 2012, 60 percent of people with a disability were not in the labor force at all, they were neither working nor looking for work. Employed people...
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Reading About Workers Who Can
In honor of its Centennial in 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor, in partnership with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, developed a list of Books that Shaped Work in America. Many...
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Happy Halloween to The Count
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Podcast #34: Sam Roberts on New York City
The New York Public Library Podcast brings you the best of the Library's author talks, live events, and other bookish curiosities. In our most recent episode, Sam Roberts of The New York Times...
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Books We Are Thankful For
I am grateful for Donald Hall's Without, a poetic meditation on his wife Jane Kenyon's illness (leukemia and death.) The book was published one month after my brother Scott died (also from leukemia)....
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SIBL Participates in New York Business Expo & Conference
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The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is synonymous with luxurious accommodations. Guests expect excellence in surroundings, room service, food and entertainment. One hundred years ago, white glove service was...
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Booktalking "Paper Daughter" by Jeanette Ingold
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Raising the Minimum Wage Would Benefit LGBT Families
This is the Department of Labor blog post authored by Carl Fillichio, head of the Labor Department's Office of Public Affairs. Carl states that many LGBT workers are employed in low-wage jobs and...
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