Recent Event Highlights: NYPL’s New Catalog Merges Research and Branch Library Holdings, Frank Gehry in Conversation with Barbara Isenberg - LIVE Shorts, As Temporary Branch Debuts in Midtown Manhattan, Residents Protest Loss of Donnell Library, Intro to NYPL's Stuff for the Teen Age 2009, War Is - NYPL Stuff for the Teen Age 2009, Super Smash Brothers Brawl - NYPL Stuff for the Teen Age 2009, and 48 more...
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...as The Catalog, includes eight million bibliographic records representing 14 million items. The project took three years. NYPL has purchased several modules of Innovative Interfaces’s Millennium system, including the public interface component as well as...
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Library Journal
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6668599.html?rssid=191
Watch as members of the New York Yankees share their thoughts about the importance of libraries at the Summer Reading 2009 kick off event at The New York Public Library on June 6, 2009.
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...Library not carrying a book for political or social content.” (He also edited Kitty Kelley’s book about the Bush dynasty; the NYPL has 33 copies of that.) Library officials had no comment on the situation, so the Transom called the main help desk. The librarian...
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New York Observer
http://www.observer.com/2009/daily-transom/why-gross-museum-expose-missing-nypl-stacks
Join Bette Midler, Jeff Daniels, Barbara Walters, Tim Gunn, Amy Tan and more...speak out for your library and help fight cuts in resources. Add your own response video, and go to www.nypl.org to take action! ... "bette midler" "jeff daniels" "mario batali" "ellen burstyn" "colson whitehead" "bill irwin" "malcolm gladwell" "barbara walters" "nora ephron" "mike nichols" "amy tan" nypl "new york public library"
, Spain, has been called "the world's most celebrated new building" by The New York Times, and his Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, is considered both a visual and an acoustical masterpiece. Projects from Las Vegas to Abu Dhabi are in the works or preparing to open. Having recently celebrated his eightieth birthday, Gehry talks to Barbara Isenberg, author of "Conversations with Frank Gehry," and New Yorker music critic Alex Ross about his art of moving forms. ... "Frank Gehry" ...
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...But as the program began, a few of the protesters eased their way inside with their signs. They even heckled occasionally as NYPL Chairwoman Catherine Marron and President Paul LeClerc made their remarks. "Save the Donnell," one blurted. "What about the...
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Library Journal
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6655383.html?rssid=191
The following is the end of the Game Company Roleplay from the 4.29.09 Global Kids Playing For Keeps capacity building program's training for the New York Public Libraries. In this activity, everyone pretended to be part of a game company, making a game. The video is the final part, in which the "game producer" makes a pitch about the game development to the "client".
Stuff for the Teen Age 2009represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review Marc Aronson and Patty Campbell's book "War Is..." for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review the video game "Super Smash Brothers Brawl," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review Akihisa Ikeda's manga graphic novel "Rosario Vampire" series, for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review the video game "Rock Band 2," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review Ripely Entertainment's book "Ripley's Believe It or Not," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review Susan Kuklin's novel "No Choirboy," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review Masashi Kishimoto's graphic novel "Naruto," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review the video game "Mortal Combat vs. DC Universe," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review Joann Sfar's graphic novel "Little Vampire," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review Lil Wayne's album "Tha Carter III," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review The Jonas Brother's album "A Little Bit Longer," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review Amy Belasen's novel "Jenny Green's Killer Junior Year," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review the book "Indognito," by Karen Ngo, for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review the video game Guitar Hero World Tour, for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review "Kin," Book 1 in The Good Neighbors series by Holly Black and Ted Naifeh, for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review Tonya Hurley's novel "Ghostgirl," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review the novel "Conception," by Kalisha Buckhanon, for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review the manga graphic novel "Chibi Vampire," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Teens at The New York Public Library review Beyonce's album "I Am... Sasha Fierce," for Stuff for the Teen Age 2009. STA 2009 represents the years hottest books, movies, music, and video games. Check out what teens at branches of The New York Public Library have to say about some of their favorites on the list. For more about STA 2009 and a complete list, visit projects.nypl.org
Every March, the New York Public Library sends librarians and volunteers to Albany to speak with state representatives. This year, for the first time, some teen volunteers came up. Since it happened on a school day, only a few teens were able to come. We made this video so that everyone could have their say.
The NYPL and Wired present a discussion about making art and commerce work together. It posed the question: what is the future for art and ideas in an age when practically anything can be copied, pasted, downloaded, sampled, and re-imagined? Like how street artist Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama portrait was inspired by an AP photo he saw. Here's Shepard Fairey with cultural historian Steven Johnson and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig. blogs.wnyc.org
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...fuel system renovations Real estate market in slump "Attractive terms" not available for now The New York Public Library’s (NYPL) ambitious renovation plans have been snagged by the crash in the city’s real estate market. In March 2008, NYPL announced it...
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Library Journal
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6629133.html?rssid=191
The Gotham Jazzmen, at The Bruno Walter Auditorium, Rogers & Hammerstein Library, Lincoln Center, New York -- Leroy "Sam" Parkins (Clarinet), Lee Lorenz (trumpet), Peter Sokolow (piano & vox). Music by Burton Lane / Lyrics by Frank Loesser.
LIVE from the NYPL presents "DEAD from the NYPL," The Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries: ANN WROE, MARILYN JOHNSON & DANIEL OKRENT, LIVE from the NYPL, October 27, 2008. Ann Wroe, co-author of The Economist Book of Obituaries and its current editor of some of the best obituaries in the world, discusses the making of obituaries, their thrills and pitfalls, their rewards, and their insidious influence with Marilyn Johnson, who has studied the art and peculiar habits of obituary writers around ...
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...is a cooperative Canadian weblog on things legal. I’ve quickly run through all of the NYPL additions and can tell you that there’s a wide range of interesting material here, beginning with the dawn of photography and proceeding up to the 1930s. Here’s the...
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Slaw
http://www.slaw.ca/2008/12/17/nypl-joins-flickr-commons/
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...their studios and make something, based on what they had seen at the Library." More information on the project can be found at the NYPL, as well as at Design*Sponge. The videos also have their own YouTube page. Episodes III and IV, featuring the final reveals,...
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Glam.com
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/books-guides-resources/nypl-and-designsponge-on-design-by-the-book-072250
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...simple, decent, customer service from NYPL," one asks. "There seems to be a huge upheaval in your research libraries with vicious infighting for turf supremacy," asks another. "Why is the interface with the NYPL’s website so cumbersome?" asks another. ...
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Library Journal
http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1010000101/post/1750037775.html?nid=3570
Zadie Smith gives the Robert Silvers lecture "Speaking in Tongues" at the NYPL.
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...nothing (and free is always a positive), and if the wait I regularly endure to get books out the New York Public Library (the NYPL of the title) is anything to go by, there is incredible demand for comics in the library system. So I’m planning to sit down...
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Newsarama
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/newsaramablog/~3/473902802/
artists, who range from a glassblower to a letterpress printer, create unique works inspired by what they found; special guest Isaac Mizrahi will also join us to share his sources of inspiration. The artists are: Lorena Barrezueta, Rebecca Kutys, Mike Perry, John Pomp and Julia Rothman. Music by Clear Tigers. Visit www.nypl.org/research/chss/bythebook for more information. ... designsponge NYPL New York Public Library artist Barrezueta Kutys Moontree Mike Perry John Pomp Julia Rothman Clear ...
The New York Public Library's culinary librarian Rebecca Federman interviews Ferran Adrià, culinary god and head chef of elBulli in Spain. She also talks with The New York Times' Harold McGree; Bill Buford, a contributor to The New Yorker; Corby Kummer, of The Atlantic; and food scholar Paul Freedman.
Chester Burger, an air force staff sergeant, amassed perhaps the most complete collection of US military should patch insignia during the Second World War. Watch as he meets conservators from The New York Public Library who recently restored his collection and showed it to him for the first time in several decades. Please note the correct 23 seconds into the video: Mr. Burger was stationed several places during WWII, not just Los Angeles.
Vincenzo Rutigliano, a librarian in The New York Public Library's Art & Architecture Department, gives an abbreviated version of his class in how to research the history of a building in New York City using resources at the library, city archives, and online databases.
The New York Public Library's Anti-Prom is an alternative, safe space for teens who may not feel welcome at official school proms. Celebrating its fourth year in 2008, the Anti-Prom welcomed special guest Simon Doonan and deejay Johnny Dynell to the main library's grand Astor Hall.
Warren Smith, NYPL Schomburg Center jazz oral history, interviewed 11 August 1994.
Tommy Turrentine, NYPL Schomburg Center jazz oral history, interviewed 12 August 1993.
Milt Hinton, NYPL Schomburg Center jazz oral history, interviewed 1 August 1995.
Marian McPartland, NYPL Schomburg Center jazz oral history, interviewed 27 August 1996.
Jon Faddis, NYPL Schomburg Center jazz oral history, interviewed 20 August 1993.
Jimmy Heath, NYPL Schomburg Center jazz oral history, interviewed 17 July 1996.
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