June 2011
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Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
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The new Kingsbridge Library is open and being visited by its community. And like all other NYPL locations, you can check in on Foursquare and let your friends and colleagues know that you’re getting in some quality library time! Kingsbridge Library Manager Victor Simmons gets the word out in this video, and yes, the Lego lions were at the Library for yesterday’s opening! Check us out...
Jun 29th
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Jun 28th
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Jun 27th
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Jun 27th
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“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”
– Author Pearl Buck, whose birthday is today.
Jun 26th
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Jun 25th
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Come Hear Tito Puente At The Library
Tito is bringing his music to Tito Puente Way! The famous musician’s orchestra will be performing at our Aguilar Library (located, appropriately, on Tito Puente Way) at 2 p.m. It’s totally free, so come on down and check it out! Dance the afternoon away! The program is part of the Music @ NYPL series, which aims to bring free music into NYC. The proposed $40 million city budget cut...
Jun 25th
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Stress and the City
We know that living in New York City can be stressful and a new report discussed in Time magazine reveals that city living may actually physically trigger stressful or anxious brain activity. So, in a city of millions of people, where can one go to escape it all? You guessed it - visit your local branch of the New York Public Library. It’s the ideal oasis in this crowded, complicated...
Jun 24th
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Jun 23rd
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Jun 23rd
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Preview Our New Catalog Page!
The New York Public Library has partnered with Toronto-based company Bibliocommons to re-invent our catalog page. The new version (which will be easier to use and will allow patrons to rate books, create their own “shelves” and form online groups) will officially debut in September, but we’re giving our loyal users a chance to preview the page starting today. We want your...
Jun 20th
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Jun 18th
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Jun 17th
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As The New York Public Library faces a possible $40 million budget cut - its worst ever - communities across the city are writing letters, posing for pictures with Library lions, and making their voices heard. Yesterday at NYPL’s Webster Library, patrons wrote one word on their hand with magic markers to describe what the library is to them. Webster librarian Kristy Raffensberger reports.
Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 15th
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Jun 14th
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The Strange Politics of The Fugitive -- Free... →
Explore U.S.-Mexican relations at the cusp of the Cold War through the subtexts of this John Ford classic. An illustrated lecture by Columbia University historian Seth Fein at NYPL tomorrow at 6 p.m. A taste of what’s to come: “The film uses the imagery of fascism and the rhetoric of communism,” says Fein. “A bad guy looks like a Nazi and talks like a communist. The good...
Jun 13th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 11th
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Jun 10th
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The New York Public Library faces a possible $40 million city budget cut. It would decimate our system, eliminating programs, hours and possibly branches. But you can do something! You can write a letter to the city to fight the cuts. Or you can go to our brand new page on VYou and make a video letting explaining why you need us, why you love us and why the cuts would be a very bad thing (example...
Jun 10th
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Jun 10th
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Jun 9th
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“That would be sad for me if the library closed early. This is like my sanctuary,...”
– Shabri Cummings, a 13-year-old who visits our City Island branch every day after school to read, game, do homework, use the computer and socialize, discussing potential hour cutbacks as a result of proposed $40 million city budget cut, the largest in our history. If his branch wasn’t open, he...
Jun 9th
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Jun 8th
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The New York Times attended our Anti-Prom on... →
Jun 7th
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Jun 5th
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Today: Show Us You Love Us. Hug The Library.
Do you love the New York Public Library? Do you love the free books and internet? The free ESOL classes? The free literacy classes? The free kids’ programming? The amazing community spaces? Well, show us. Go to the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building today at 1:30 and join in a “hug” of the library, hosted by advocacy group Urban Librarians Unite. They are symbolically showing how...
Jun 4th
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Jun 3rd
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Jun 2nd
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Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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