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Wednesday we shared the renderings of the Library’s Central Library Plan. Today, the Library opened an exhibition at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building that explains the process of the Central Library Plan, including renderings, details and the above video that provides an animated look inside the space.
A great interview by Polygon with NYPL’s own Senior Librarian Thomas Knowlton and his The NYPLarcade Game Club, a discussion group at Mid-Manhattan Library that focuses on the intricacies of video games. (And a shout-out to The Verge for sharing the piece with their readers and the title of this post.)
Today marks the 109th anniversary of the Wright Brother’s historic first flight at Kitty Hawk. (December 17, 1903). To mark the occasion, we’ve selected this image of the brothers Wright in 1903, courtesy of the Library’s Digital Gallery, where you can find (if you’re so inclined) a wide array of aeronautical images to satisfy anyone’s care for air -planes.
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(We couldn’t resist playing 1920’s newsboy… forgive us. But, if you want to learn how to create a layout for your own printing press, you can visit SIBL for that too!)
**UPDATE, non-working link is now working! Our apologies.
We just had to share this with you! While taking a look at the Library’s Timothy Leary archives with our good friends at The Verge (piece coming to a computer near you later this winter), we discovered that Mr. Leary had a nintendo wrist controller Power Glove (immortalized in the 1989 film The Wizard aka A 100 Minute Long Commercial for Super Mario Brothers 3)… and Adidas sneakers. Very clean, red-laced Adidas sneakers. This made us very happy.
All art should become science, and all science should become art.
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Friedrich Schlengel, 18th Century German Scholar
Courtesy of John Tresch’s THE ROMANTIC MACHINE, the subject of this Thursday’s Conversations at the Cullman Center event with the author and Ian Buruma.
Currently on display in the Rose Main Reading Room, NYPL is honored to have a beautiful edition of the Gutenberg Bible, the book that changed the world. But how old is it, really?
Doug Reside, the Digital Curator for the Library for Performing Arts, wrote this incredibly helpful step-by-step guide to retrieving data off of outmoded hardware: “Digital Archaeology: Recovering Your Digital History”.
Have you found any cool/weird/helpful old hardware lately?
![The Pittsburg [sic] visible-writing machine (1895-1917)
AKA a typewriter.
Part of the NYPL’s Turn-of-the-Century Posters collection.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5mimxtcnz1qesw8yo1_500.jpg "The Pittsburg [sic] visible-writing machine (1895-1917)
AKA a typewriter.
Part of the NYPL’s Turn-of-the-Century Posters collection.")
The Pittsburg [sic] visible-writing machine (1895-1917)
AKA a typewriter.
Part of the NYPL’s Turn-of-the-Century Posters collection.
