March 2011
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Happy Opening Day!
While India and Sri Lanka prepare for battle during the 2011 Cricket World Cup, baseball fans world-wide are celebrating Opening Day. What better way to honor both international pastimes than with this stellar image from the the A. G. Spalding Baseball Collection, located at the Library’s historic Schwarzman building.
Although the Library is an impartial fan of all teams, we would still...
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Give Yourself an "A" for Amazing
Picture it, an entire day surrounded by the beauty of The New York Public Library’s landmark building on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, while participating in workshops led by outstanding creative writers and scholars.
The Cullman Center Institute for Teachers offers teachers an opportunity to enrich their understanding of history and literature, as well as learning about doing research in...
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Incoming Schomburg Head Joins The 40-40 Club
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the man set to take over the NYPL’s Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture this July, is already making a name for himself - he’s one of New York’s 40 Under 40, as chosen by Crain’s NY Business! The 2011 class was announced today, and includes people from all walks of life, including sports, dining, medicine, non-profits and finance. Some...
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Happy 100th BDay, Tennessee Williams
Today would have been the 100th birthday of renowned, Tony Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams, who penned “The Glass Menagerie,” “Streetcar Named Desire,” and “The Rose Tattoo” among many others. He also wrote “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof,” so this doubles as our weekly Caturday entry. So happy birthday Tennessee, and...
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Tale Of The Tats At The Library
What was the first thing Mexican tattoo artist Dr. Lakra did when he got to The Big Apple in preparation for his upcoming show at The Drawing Center? He went straight to The New York Public Library, of course. C’mon, where else would a tattoo artist go? As the NY Times explains, “He began researching some of the subjects that fascinate him, like 19th-century medical instruments,...
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What To Do This Weekend →
Need something to do this weekend? NY1 has some great ideas in this piece that aired today, including two amazing (and free) exhibits at our Library For The Performing Arts: “Design: Fraver, Four Decades of Theatre Poster Art” and “Ireland: The Ties That Bind.” So join us this weekend!
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What It's Like To "Not See" Dance
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been talking a lot about Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums, the dance troupe performing their brand of “unseen dance” (dance experienced through senses other than sight) at various NYPL branches throughout March. Well, want to know what it’s really like? Check out this Huffington Post column on that very subject. You can also check out news...
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Sharing is caring... and makes you smarter!
We do love to share our resources with New Yorkers! Now, any New York Public Library cardholder in good standing who lives, works or attends school in New York State is eligible to participate in the Manhattan Research Libraries Initiative, a new service that offers an unprecedented level of access to Library collections, as well as select materials owned by Columbia University and NYU.
Gardening Tips from Cigarette Cards
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The Digital Gallery of the New York Public Library is an amazing resource of visual learning on nearly any topic under the sun. It contains not just photographs and maps, but also bits of ephemera, like cigarette cards. Cigarette cards were akin to the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks. They covered every topic under the sun, including offering gardening tips. Here’s a card showing you how...
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“I kept coming back to the librarians as I talked to people at SXSWi because this...”
– Phoebe Connelly - The Atlantic | SXSW 2011: The Year of the Librarian
Phoebe Connelly offers a refreshing take on this year’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival.
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Cool Book-Related Event: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Cast
The “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series is one of the Library’s most popular amongst kids, so we’re letting our loyal patrons know about a cool event happening at the Barnes and Noble at 97 Warren Street in downtown Manhattan at 4 pm today - author Jeff Kinney and the cast of the new 20th Century Fox film “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules” will be appearing...
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“To save money by reducing library services and resources is like trying to save...”
– Pico Iyer in the L.A. Times
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“All historians are prisoners of their own experience and servitors to their own...”
– Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, whose papers the NYPL recently acquired. The New Yorker’s Book Bench did a wonderful story about the collection today.
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“Food may be forbidden there, but the New York Public Library still has the best...”
– Jeremy Olshan of the NY Post, who today wrote a great piece on our menu collection (which is currently at about 40,000 menus and still growing) and an upcoming project to digitize them with the public’s help.
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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and...”
– Jack Kerouac, whose birthday was Saturday. Happy belated birthday, Jack. Want to read his stuff? We have plenty of items to check out.
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Our President . . . The Bread Baker
What does NYPL President Paul LeClerc do on Sunday? He gets up at 7, cooks burgers for his family out of ground chicken, onions and Parmesan cheese, bakes bread and makes pancakes, window-shops, rides his bike across Central Park, visits The Corner Bookstore, drinks espresso and reads the NY Times, which today, offers an amazing Sunday Routine column on this very topic - what President LeClerc...
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Get Blindfolded At The Library - It's Art!
Looking for something free and fun to do Saturday at around 2 pm? Go to our Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library at 40 W 20th Street in Chelsea and check out dance group Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums, who will perform “Bark,” one of their original “unseen dances.” See, after you arrive, they’ll take your stuff, blindfold you, walk you into...
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“I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Happy International Women’s Day! If you’d like read more wise words from Ms. Wollstonecraft (mother of Mary Shelley), check out our Pforzheimer Collection.
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NYPL Puts A Bird On It →
This weekend, NYPL Librarian Jessica Pigza and author Maura Madden played host to author Abby Glassberg, author of The Artful Bird, as part of the latest Handmade Crafternoon at The New York Public Library.
So what’d they (and the scores of other attendees) make?
THEY. PUT. BIRDS. ON. THINGS.
Look at this little wirefooted bird. It could just fly out of your hand.
In fact, this is a...
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“I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.”
– @SteveMartinToGo (via brooklynmutt)
Leave it to (Library Lion) Steve Martin to push reading to its limits.
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Want To Not See Something Cool This Weekend?
Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Head to the Richmondtown Library (200 Clarke Avenue at Amber Street in Staten Island) at 2 p.m. on Saturday to see Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums perform “BARK,” one of their original “unseen dances.” Audience members are blindfolded and brought into the performance space, then dancers perform all around them, occasionally...
