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Booktalking "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" by Lee Israel
I guess it makes sense that if you spend enough time studying someone's real correspondence and signature, you could fake them. Heard of forged paintings and fake money? How about forged correspondence...
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The Other 4-Year Degree
The Other 4-Year Degree is the Department of Labor blog post, authored by Tom Perez, Secretary of Labor. In this post, he notes that DOL will award $100 million in grants to promote apprenticeship in...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of November 16
Americare Inc. will present a recruitment for Home Health Aide (10 openings) on Monday, November 17, 2014, 10 am - 2 pm, at Flushing Workforce 1 Career Center, 138-60 Barclay Avenue, 2nd Floor,...
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From Stage to Page with the Cranach Press's Hamlet
The Weimar Republic brought a period of prolific creativity to Germany in the years between World Wars I and II, with art, theater, music, and literature all experiencing a golden age. Fine press...
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Haunted Real Estate and Furniture in Fiction
I've read of a recurring dream in which New Yorkers open a previously unseen door to find additional square footage in their apartments. In these dreams, this is decidedly a good thing. I've never had...
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Making an Accessible Accessibility Resource Fair at the Andrew Heiskell Library
So, how did we end up with 250 people, the Mayor's office, Lincoln Center, Google, a bunch of dogs, and lots of talking computers filling our space for 6 hours in October? Well, like most libraries,...
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Booktalking "The Brooklyn Nine" by Alan Gratz
1st Inning: Manhattan, 1845Felix Schneider loves baseball. An immigrant from Germany, he finds himself amidst a huge urban fire; flames engulf entire street blocks.2nd Inning: Northern Virginia,...
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Memoirs with Recipes
Memoirs with recipes: two great book categories that taste great together!Buttermilk and Bible Burgers by Fred William Sauceman A trip down the foodways of the Appalachian region.A Homemade Life by...
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The Labor Market Gets a JOLT
This is the Department of Labor blog post, authored by Heidi Shierholz, Chief Economist at the Labor Department. In her blog, Heidi delivers the good news that in September, 2.8 million workers...
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When Writers Write Books About How to Write Books
Some say writing can't be taught, but writers aren't natural born killers of darlings. One way to become a writer is to absorb the small canon of books written about writing. Sound a little meta? Well,...
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Booktalking "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
B for Brikenau Concentration Camp, 3087 for prisoner number. This is how the Nazis define Yanek."You're 18 years old, and you have a trade," veteran prisoners desperately advise newcomers to declare in...
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Laying the Path for Career Success
November is National Career Development Month, and Maria Town, policy advisor in the Office of Disability Employment Policy, wrote “Laying the Path for Career Success,” about the importance of...
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The Journey to Safety Excellence Starts With You
This is a Department of Labor blog post, authored by Deborah Hersman, CEO and president of the National Safety Council. In this post, Deborah presents an online campaign, Journey to Safety...
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November Reader's Den: The Keeper of Lost Causes
That said, what I recognized and appreciated in this novel that I haven’t found in crime novels by other Scandinavian authors was a sense of humor. I found myself laughing aloud at Morck’s opinions of...
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Sesame Street: Not a Kiddie Business
It has been claimed that there is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it. Therefore it is not a surprise that Seasame Workshop, just like SIBL (see our Money Matters @ Financial...
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Keeping Up on the Minimum Wage
This is the Department of Labor blog post, authored by Tom Perez, Secretary of the Labor Department. In his post, he states that a minimum wage job barely covers one person's basic needs. Over 88 %...
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Absolute Sale! NYC Land Auction Catalogs in the Map Division
All of our print collections can be identified through searching our catalog or through consulting our old-school hard copy catalog that we keep at the reference desk in our reading room. Searching by...
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Mike Nichols, 1931-2014
One of Nichols’ great innovations in The Graduate was to cast Dustin Hoffman—short, nondescript, obviously Jewish—in a role written as a WASPy Robert Redford type (“a walking surfboard,” in Hoffman’s...
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Podcast #37: Richard Ford on Becoming a Reader and Finding a Voice
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, we were lucky to be visited by Richard...
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