Archive for the 'NYPL' Category
Mixing it up With Rare Books, Crafts and Social Media
February 24th, 2010NYPL – “In addition to her duties as a librarian, Jessica teaches classes on the history of handmade books, finding vintage craft and DIY library resources. She has an active personal blog at www.HandmadeLibrarian.com and also created Hand-Made, a NYPL blog that highlights the Library’s DIY/craft/material culture collections. Together with Maura Madden (author of Crafternoon), [...]
NYPL Cuts Services, Kids Affected
February 18th, 2010SLJ – “Sunday hours in five branches will be cut starting February 21, and hours at neighborhood branches have been reduced from an average of 51 hours per week to 45 hours a week starting February16. And while the NYPL says it remains committed to teen advisory programs and K-12 related workshops, other reductions may [...]
In Tough Times, a Library Branch Reopens
February 8th, 2010NYT – “In the midst of a budget cut that is forcing it to cut back hours at two-thirds of its locations, the New York Public Library has found something to celebrate: the reopening of the St. Agnes branch on Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street. The long-languishing three-story stone building with the arched windows has [...]
Learn About the New NYPL Site
December 10th, 2009A summary and a video.
New York Library Leader to Step Down
November 18th, 2009NYT – “After 16 years at the helm of one of the world’s largest library systems, Paul LeClerc announced on Wednesday that he would step down as president of the New York Public Library in the summer of 2011 to give the institution plenty of time to search for a replacement.”
E. Annie Proulx Donates Papers To New York Public Library
November 3rd, 2009Huffington Post – “A celebrated chronicler of rural life, E. Annie Proulx, has found a literary home in the big city. Proulx, whose works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Shipping News” and the short story “Brokeback Mountain” that was the basis for the film starring Heath Ledger, has donated her papers to the New [...]
Mapping the Big Apple
September 18th, 2009WSJ – “A coming exhibition at the New York Public Library illustrates historical nuggets like these from the city’s 400-year history through images of its evolving shoreline. “Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009,” which opens Sept. 25, features about 200 maps, prints and atlases mostly from the library’s collection. The show is one of many cultural [...]
Libraries Are America’s Lifelines. Leave Them Alone
May 8th, 2009Kenneth C. Davis – “Michael Bloomberg may be the ultimate IT Guy. Okay, maybe that's still Bill Gates. But the point is, Michael Bloomberg took Information and Technology and made himself an empire with Bloomberg News. Then he became King of New York — or at least Mayor — and a very good one at [...]
Ask About the New York Public Library
December 8th, 2008City Room Blog – “This week, Paul LeClerc, the head of the New York Public Library, will be answering selected readers’ questions about the library, its services, and its future in an era of changing information needs. Submit questions online; the first set of answers will appear in a new blog post on Wednesday.”
N.Y. Public Library puts its ‘Treasures’ online
November 11th, 2008USATODAY – “The New York Public Library quietly rolled out a new video series last month. Titled “Treasures,” it showcases 11 gems of the library’s vast collection of more than 50 million items.”
New York Public Library Get$ a Boo$t
March 11th, 2008New York Times – “The New York Public Library’s venerable lion-guarded building on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street is to be renamed for the Wall Street financier Stephen A. Schwarzman, who has agreed to jump-start a $1 billion expansion of the library system with a guaranteed $100 million of his own.”
More on the NYPL Bush Exhibit
December 7th, 2007The Guardian – “A series of six black and white prints on display in an unassuming corner of the New York public library have sparked controversy on the airwaves and blogosphere quite out of keeping with the dark, marble-lined corridor in which they are hung.”
More on Library Exhibits
December 1st, 2007The NYPL is causing some controversy.
General Counsel at the NYPL
September 2nd, 2007Susan Hansen – “[H]e and the library’s two other in-house lawyers are also dealing with a far steadier stream of knotty copyright questions, now that works hidden away on the library’s shelves can be digitized and broadly disseminated. “The big question is: What does it mean to be a twenty-first-century library?” says Vanni. “We are [...]
NYT Archives to NYPL
July 25th, 2007NYT – “Disputes about printing confidential national security information have flared in recent years, but this particular letter is dated July 11, 1916, and was sent by Newton Baker, Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of war. It is part of a vast collection of personal letters, financial documents, confidential reports, photographs and more — more than 700,000 [...]
