April 2011
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NYPL Wants to Help You Live Royally
Did you take the day off for the Royal wedding? Or wake up at 4am to catch the royal festivities before heading off to work? Trying to figure out how to spend the rest of your day or even your lunch hour? How about planning for your own future? NYPL’s Science, Industry, and Business Library has an entire day devoted to your financial security.
Meet with a financial counselor for a FREE...
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Want To Win A Spot To Play The "Find The Future"...
Are you dying to play Jane McGonigal’s “Find The Future” game at The New York Public Library’s landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman building on 42nd Street? Can you not wait to be in the presence of awe-inspiring objects from our collections while locked in the Library all night? There are only 500 coveted spots - and Tumblr and NYPL are giving you the chance to win one. In...
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What is Urban Uplift?
Join us tomorrow night for a fascinating discussion with award-winning architect Bing Thom, creator of the portfolio Bing Thom Works, and acclaimed architectural critic Witold Rybczynski about “urban uplift,” otherwise known as the use of architecture to strengthen communities.
(We agree that buildings can have a very positive effect on communities, especially those that are...
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WatchIf you missed it, here’s your chance to watch last week’s discussion with Salon.com co-founder Laura Miller and Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad at the Pulitzer Prize-loving New York Public Library. (We do get excited about the Pulitzer Prize!)
(This event was brought to you by LIVE from the NYPL and Conversations...
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WatchThis week Lauren Redniss’s beautiful artwork – inspired by her research as a Cullman Center Fellow – will bid adieu to the NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Don’t miss this last chance to visit the Radioactive exhibit; a beautiful testament to Pierre and Marie Curie, the science world’s greatest love story. The exhibit is open on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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For Your (Goony) Eyes Only... Win Two Free Tickets
Have you seen the outstanding reviews for Jennifer Egan’s latest novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad”?
Have you thought about buying a copy for your bookshelf, e-reader, upcoming flight to Africa?
Have you wondered what it takes to write a critically-acclaimed novel?
Have you considered what an actual goon squad would look like?
If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions then you might be...
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NYPL Offers A 'Golden Ticket' To Teachers →
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“We were born in the same year, spent much of our youthful spare time in branches...”
– Nobel Prize winner Baruch Blumberg, who discovered Hepatitis B and led NASA’s efforts to find life on other planets, discussing he and fellow scientific leader Joshua Lederberg in a 2008 “Nature” article. Blumberg died yesterday at age 85. RIP to a truly great and important man.
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Ping Pong, Puritans, Politics, and Prose
Congratulations to the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers 2011-2012 Fellows! The Library recently announced its thirteenth class of Fellows, which features fifteen diverse and extraordinary creative writers, independent scholars, and academics. The Fellows were selected from a pool of 274 applicants from 22 countries and will be pursuing a...
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NY Times Writes About Our Free "Facebook 101"... →
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“I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK.”
– Legendary poet Maya Angelou, whose birthday is today and whose collection she donated to our Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture last year. We did an interview with her at the time for Huffington Post - check it out. And happy birthday, Maya!
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