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Recommendations for the #1000BlackGirlBooks Campaign
A few weeks ago I read a news story about 11 year-old Marley Dias and her campaign to collect 1000 books to donate to a library in Jamaica. More specifically, Marley was looking for books with strong,...
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The Leap Day Bachelor List of 1888
Working at a library, the expression "There is nothing new under the sun" often comes to mind. Things we consider indelibly modern—graphic novels, logos, even the Internet—often have a prototype in an...
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Spring Into Public Programs: Dorot Jewish Division
Please join us for these upcoming public programs, sponsored by the Dorot Jewish Division.Events are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.Seasoned with Song: Sacred Music of...
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Recently Digitized Early American Manuscript Collections, March 2016
As part of the ongoing Early American Manuscripts Project, NYPL has recently digitized a number of exciting collections relating to North America in the eighteenth century.1. The Hugh Gaine Receipt...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: March 2016
The following titles on our Recent Acquisitions Display are just a few of our new books, which are available at the reference desk in the Dorot Jewish Division. Catalog entries for the books can be...
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Designing Women: The Art of Cloth Bindings
Currently on display on the third floor of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the wonderful Printing Women exhibition celebrates the work of female printmakers over the course of more than three...
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Introducing the Photographers’ Identities Catalog
Today the New York Public Library is pleased to announce the launch of Photographers’ Identities Catalog (PIC), a collection of biographical data for over 115,000 photographers, studios, manufacturers,...
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Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker Diary, March 31, 1800
“The trial of Levi Weeks for the murder of Miss Sands, came on this morning … scarcely anything else is spoken of.” Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker, March 31, 1800. Bleecker diary entry for March 31, 1800....
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Violet Oakley: An Interview with Dr. Bailey Van Hook
Dr. Bailey Van Hook is an art history professor and the co-chair of the Master’s program in Material Culture and Public Humanities at Virginia Tech. She is also the author of the first full-length...
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Citizen Cartography: No April Foolin'
Greetings Citizen Cartographers and April Foolers!Spring has sprung and new maps have been added to the NYPL Map Warper. No joke!The Map Warper is a free online tool (available at maps.nypl.org) that...
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The Material Realities of Slavery in Early New York
In colonial New York, as now, certain New Yorkers amassed extreme concentrations of wealth. Unlike today, these extremes of wealth often derive from colossal accumulations of landed property, in the...
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Passover Resources, from the Rose Family Seder Books to the Seder Plate
From the beautiful Rose Family Seder Books to preparing a seder plate, the Library has something for everyone.Learn about the holiday of Passover through the magnificent artwork now on display in the...
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Finding the Pulitzer Prize Winners for Journalism at the Library
The recipients of the 2016 Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week. While the Pulitzer website includes the winning work for each recipient, you may be interested in reading more from these...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: April 2016
The following titles on our Recent Acquisitions Display are just a few of our new books, which are available at the reference desk in the Dorot Jewish Division. Catalog entries for the books can be...
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The Art Museum Underground
Every day, millions of commuters use the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority to get around. Most of us are in such a rush that we rarely ever notice the art that lives in this underground museum....
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Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker Diary, April 30, 1800
“Mr MacDonald did not come home to dinner till after we had done, having been very much engag’d with Election—the Polls open’d yesterday and will close to morrow—both parties are very warmly engag’d,...
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Edwin Miller Interviews for Seventeen Magazine in Archives and Manuscripts
Seventeenmagazine is a popular magazine for teenage girls and tweens. The covers of Seventeen are colorful and usually feature a young woman surrounded by headlines about the latest news on fashion and...
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Whither Westeros? Two Librarians Speculate Wildly on the Future of Game of...
This post was co-written by librarians Josh Soule, Spuyten Duyvil Library, and Meredith Mann, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire has existed...
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A Melville Marginalia Mystery
In this series, we focus on research projects undertaken using NYPL research collections. By showing off some of the research Made at NYPL, we hope that other researchers will build on these projects...
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The Run for the Roses: An Exciting Two Minutes of Bluegrass Local History
The peak season of professional horse racing breaks from the gate this Saturday at 6:24PM, after the bugle sounds and 20 thoroughbreds contend nose-to-nose down to the wire for the 142ndKentucky...
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