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Job and Employment Links for the Week of November 23
Americare Inc. will present a recruitment for Home Health Aide (10 openings) on Monday, November 24, 2014, 10 am - 2 pm, at Staten Island Workforce 1 Career Center, 120 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island,...
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Food Luminaries Share Kitchen Insights with NYPL
We love eating food, obviously. But, we also love reading about it, planning it, and making it. Now, add to that list hearing culinary masters wax poetic. Over the years, NYPL has been lucky enough to...
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Evacuation Day: New York's Former November Holiday
Materials on other historic New York City holidays and celebrations can be found through the following subjects:Holidays -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.Parades -- New York (State) -- New...
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Ben Franklin on Cooking Turkey... with Electricity
On Thursday, households across America will gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, with turkey taking pride of place on our Thanksgiving tables. Baste, brine, deep-fry? (But not frozen, please!) The...
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Accessible Classics
I still recall how I could not put Lord of the Flies down in high school. I did not want to read it at the time, thinking it a "boy's book" and picked it up reluctantly. I was captivated by the...
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Podcast #38: Marcus Samuelsson on Food, Love, and Gratitude
On this Thanksgiving week, we’re reaching back into the NYPL archives to bring you a story about food, family, and multicultural identity. Internationally acclaimed chef Marcus Samuelsson describes his...
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My Interview with Daniel Aronoff: A Visible Lives Oral History Project Guest...
This is a guest blog post by Deena Greenberg, interviewer for Visible Lives: Oral Histories of the Disability Experience at Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. Deena conducted her first...
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The Wonderful Wide World of Sesame Street
If you are looking for something fun to do with your family this holiday season, and for FREE you can go to the Library for the Performing Arts and enjoy the exhibit "Somebody Come and Play: 45 Years...
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November Reader's Den: The Keeper of Lost Causes, Part 2
Welcome to November in The Reader's Den, Part 2. By now I hope you are eagerly turning pages, anxious to see what happens next in The Keeper of Lost Causes (published in Danish in 2007 as Kvinden i...
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December Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
The lost tribe of Coney Island... building the Statue of Liberty... a culinary history of America in 100 bites... the sinking of refugee ship The Wilhelm Gustloff during World War II... a close-up of...
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Booktalking "Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing" by April...
The Brooklyn Bridge took fourteen years to build, and the people in Manhattan and Brooklyn all eagerly awaited its completion. Travel between the boroughs of New York City would become so much easier....
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北美崔哥：中国人来了：神文博主說段子 || Beimeicuige : Zhongguo ren lai le
Chi 895.17 Beimeicuige 北美崔哥：中国人来了：神文博主說段子作者: 北美崔哥南京市 : 江苏文艺出版社, ISSN 9787539962924...
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Podcast #39: Mark Strand on the Artistic Imagination
This week on the New York Public Library Podcast, we honor Pulitzer Prize winner and former US poet laureate Mark Strand, who passed away over the weekend at the age of 80. The beloved poet and author...
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Broadway Glue: Collage Art with a Theatrical Twist
Broadway BluesFile this one under: Never say never.In my family, I am definitely not known as the creative one. My grandmother was an amazing artist, a trait she passed on to my sister. Both of my...
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Christmas Books for Children
The holiday season is just beginning and I would like to recommend some holiday books in the library collections: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss. In this classic tale the Grinch steals...
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Poetry + Fiction For Teens
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately for several committees including NYPL’s Best Books For Teens 2014 (coming later this month—stay tuned!) When I looked back over all the young adult books I read...
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While You Are Waiting For "Yes Please" Why Not Try...
Like Yes Please by Amy Poehler, these humorous and engaging memoirs transform readers into the personal and professional lives of celebrities. Some titles also incorporate advice. Ali in...
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Booktalking "Code Talker" by Joseph Bruchac
Sixteen-year-old Ned Begay is used to being called stupid and other names by adults. So joining the Marines and going through boot camp is not especially challenging for him. But war does take its...
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Apprenticeship for a 21st Century Workforce
Apprenticeship for a 21st Century Workforce is the Department of Labor blog post authored by Tom Perez, Secretary of Labor. He writes about his tour in Wolfsburg Germany, home to Volkswagen AG's...
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Remembering Roberto Gómez Bolaños (1929-2014)
Rest in peace to the genius of comedy that was Roberto Gómez Bolaños, also known as Chespirito (1929-2014). Mr. Bolaños was well known across Latin America for his shows El Chaco del Ocho y El Chapulin...
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