1. Be sure to check out a great NYPL event, Recipe for Success onWednesday, June 19th! This live broadcast from the British Library’s Business and IP Centre will feature the UK’s top entrepreneurs to learn their recipe for success in the food business. Whatever industry you’re in, the panel of experts will give you the secret ingredient to business success! For more information about the event and the panelists, click here. 

  2. Fort Washington Library, A Stop on the Uptown Art Stroll, June 1-30, 2013  →

    Elizabeth Starčević. The Cocktail Party, 2003.The Fort Washington Branch will be participating in the Uptown Arts Stroll as a venue for work by local artists. One of the artists displaying her work is long-time Fort Washington patron Elizabeth Starčević. We asked her a few questions about he…

  3. Against the Grain - Design and Style Series Event @ NYPL →

    4/8/2013: FREE - Auditorium doors open at 5:30 p.m. This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, currently on view at the Museum of Arts and Design through September 15, 2013. The participants include designer Sebastian Errazuriz and scul…

    Join us May 8th for a discussion about some of the most interesting conceptual technical trends in woodworking today. The recently published book Against the Grain includes approximately 65 provocative pieces that defy the public’s perception of wood.  

  4. What does Andy Warhol’s depiction of a nose job advertisement have to do with a still of Cinderella fitting her foot into a glass slipper? Find out when Artist Deborah Kass talks about her first monograph Before and Happily Ever After.  Stop by NYPL on January 16 and join curator Robert Storr and Kass as they explore some of Kass’ latest works. In the mean time, can you tell us what you think Kass was portraying when she created this painting?

    What does Andy Warhol’s depiction of a nose job advertisement have to do with a still of Cinderella fitting her foot into a glass slipper? Find out when Artist Deborah Kass talks about her first monograph Before and Happily Ever After. 

    Stop by NYPL on January 16 and join curator Robert Storr and Kass as they explore some of Kass’ latest works.

    In the mean time, can you tell us what you think Kass was portraying when she created this painting?

  5. Race and American Politics →

    Honoring tonight’s Robert B. Silvers lecture with Darryl Pinckney about “Blacks in Democracy,” NYPL - courtesy of our Huffington Post page - conducts a Q&A with the Cullman Center alumnus and shares the civic insight of the Schomburg Center’s Junior Scholars regarding the 2012 election.

  6. POSTPONED: Tonight’s LIVE from the NYPL event

    Tonight’s LIVE from the NYPL event – The One World Schoolhouse: Salman Khan & Carlos Slim in conversation with Joel Klein – is postponed, and will be rescheduled. Tickets to this event will be honored for the new date, and we’ll keep you posted here and at LIVE from the NYPL’s Tumblr as soon as the rescheduled date is finalized. 

  7. Learn more about the past, present and current state of Nathan Englander’s new play The 27th Man at next Thursday’s event with the author/playwright, director Barry Edelstein and journalist Alexis Soloski. (Event may include discussions of aforementioned Russian prison) nathanenglander: The current state of our set. Eventually this will be a Russian prison. #27thMan (Taken with Instagram)

    Learn more about the past, present and current state of Nathan Englander’s new play The 27th Man at next Thursday’s event with the author/playwright, director Barry Edelstein and journalist Alexis Soloski.

    (Event may include discussions of aforementioned Russian prison)

    nathanenglander:

    The current state of our set. Eventually this will be a Russian prison. #27thMan (Taken with Instagram)

  8. This intriguing snapshot is brought to you by NYPL’s Manuscripts and Archives Division, home of the Library’s 1939 World’s Fair Collection. For those who might not be able to make out the image above, our digital gallery states “National Cash Register building - Men trying to get a monkey down from giant cash register.” We don’t know why there was a monkey climbing the National Cash Register building. What we do know is this…  Do not monkey around with your finances! This Friday, stop by SIBL on 34th and Madison for Financial Planning Day. It’s all day (starting at 11) and it’s FREE.

    This intriguing snapshot is brought to you by NYPL’s Manuscripts and Archives Division, home of the Library’s 1939 World’s Fair Collection. For those who might not be able to make out the image above, our digital gallery states “National Cash Register building - Men trying to get a monkey down from giant cash register.”

    We don’t know why there was a monkey climbing the National Cash Register building. What we do know is this… 

    Do not monkey around with your finances! This Friday, stop by SIBL on 34th and Madison for Financial Planning Day. It’s all day (starting at 11) and it’s FREE.

  9. lunchhournyc: momofuku: 56th street round table: street foods of new york | august 17 | tickets Don’t miss your chance! Mark the date in your calendar! Come chat about street food with NYPL librarian Rebecca Federman, next Friday, August 17.

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    momofuku:

    56th street round table: street foods of new york | august 17 | tickets

    Don’t miss your chance! Mark the date in your calendar!

    Come chat about street food with NYPL librarian Rebecca Federman, next Friday, August 17.

  10. NYPL at BEA

    If you are at BEA this morning, swing by for “Building a Social Library,” our panel discussion at 10:30 am in 1E09.

    Here’s more:

    Take a look deep inside The New York Public Library, the most recognized social media library, and how they have built their extensive community and serve their readers.

    As collections increasingly turn digital and eBooks become ubiquitous, libraries are also changing how they connect with patrons. The New York Public Library, one of the largest in the United States, has become the number one public library in the world in social media, leveraging staff and social tools to connect hundreds of thousands of users with its collections and services.

    This educational session will transform their secrets of social media success into easy to understand campaign tactics that will benefit marketing plans for libraries, publishers, booksellers and authors too!