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The Biggest Threat To The Public Library

Christian Zabriskie | Posted 05.25.2012

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Christian Zabriskie

Google has not killed the library and ebooks won't do it either. The biggest threat to the public library in American culture is limited hours.

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NYPL Embraces the Future of Libraries - Today

The New York Public Library | Posted 04.11.2012

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The New York Public Library

As interest grows around next steps for our libraries, I wanted to address some of the questions we have received. But first, I want to state up front: our absolute priority is to preserve the integrity of the Library and its collections.

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Thousands Of Documents By Thoreau, Whitman And More To Be Available Online

The Huffington Post | Amber Genuske | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Nypl Digitization Project, New York Library, New York Public Library, New York Public Library Digitization Project, New York Public Library Archive, Nypl Archive, Nypl, Video, Culture News

Imagine being able to walk through Henry David Thoreau's hand-drawn map of Walden Pond. With the New York Public Library's recently started digitizati...

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Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF?

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 03.27.2012

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New York Public Library's Stereogranimator Lets You Make GIFs Out Of 19th Century Stereographs

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New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands

The New York Public Library | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Public Domain, New York Public Library, 3d, Animated Gif, Nypl, Animation, Photography, New York Public Library Stereographs, Stereographs, New York News
The New York Public Library

What is a photograph if not an invitation to step, however hesitantly, however briefly, into another time?

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New York Public Library President Is Sentenced For DWI

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.12.2011

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Anthony Marx, who has been president of New York Public Library since July 2011, was sentenced Friday on charges stemming from an earlier DWI incident...

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Gregory Beyer

The Future Of New York's Libraries

HuffingtonPost.com | Gregory Beyer | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Anthony Marx, Video, Libraries in Crisis, Public Library, President of New York Public Library, New York Public Library, Public Libraries, Nypl, Future of Libraries, Books News

This article is part of our ongoing series on Libraries In Crisis. On a recent afternoon Anthony W. Marx walked slowly around a bank of computers a...

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All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections

The New York Public Library | Posted 11.16.2011

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The New York Public Library

By Vicky Gan, Intern, Strategic Planning Office, The New York Public Library Crowdsourcing is a loaded term. Since its 2006 debut, the word has burge...

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Like Is the New Link: Attracting Clients in a Social Media World

The New York Public Library | Posted 10.03.2011

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The New York Public Library

Almost half of the world's Internet users are on Facebook. But how many are "likable?" For anyone with something to sell, this is a particularly tricky question.

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NYC Haunts: Bronx Teens Discover Their Neighborhood Through an Interactive Look at the Dead

The New York Public Library | Posted 09.13.2011

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The New York Public Library

by H. Jack Martin, Assistant Director for Public Programs/Lifelong Learning for Children, Teens and Families, The New York Public Library Who's dea...

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Knowledge Never Goes Out of Style: Resources and Research to Build New Old Technology

The New York Public Library | Posted 08.22.2011

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The New York Public Library

World fairs are the cutting edge of where ideas that have become material are showcased. These exhibitions present to the world the future innovations that are going to affect and shape the lives of the participants.

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Anti-Prom: An Alternative to Proms That Suck

The New York Public Library | Posted 08.20.2011

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The New York Public Library

For one night, quiet is a rare commodity at the New York Public Library as Anti-Prom takes over the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

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A Villain Who Looks Like a Fascist and Talks Like a Communist: The Strange Politics of John Ford's The Fugitive

The New York Public Library | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Nypl, Cinema, New York Public Library, Movies, John Ford, Fascism, Community, Mexico, Cold War, The Fugitive, Seth Fein, New York News
The New York Public Library

How did the Cold War play out in Mexico? For Seth Fein, who is giving a free lecture at The New York Public Library tomorrow evening, much of the story can be understood in the production of a 1947 John Ford movie.

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A Journalist to Watch: Shane Harris Talks Scandal, Surveillance and the State of Reporting

The New York Public Library | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: New York Public Library, Print Journalism, Journalism, Nypl, The Watchers Review, Ronald Reagan, National Security Advisors, John Poindexter, Book Reviews, Author Interviews, Shane Harris, New York News
The New York Public Library

It's not every day that a former national security advisor recognizes you, taps you on the shoulder and apologizes for not returning your calls. But that's exactly what happened to journalist Shane Harris.

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A Library Book, Or Rather A Book About The Library

The New York Public Library | Posted 08.01.2011

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The New York Public Library

The Author's Note explains that I went scuba diving in abandoned marble quarries in Vermont, and wondered where all the marble had gone. That's the truth.

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How To Get A Book Into The New York Public Library

electricliterature.com | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Malcolm X, Find the Future, Night at the Museum, Bryant Park, Jack Kerouac, New York Public Library, Nypl, Books News

I spent Friday night at the New York Public Library's main branch with 499 other people (plus an uncounted slew of librarians, volunteers, security gu...

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New York Public Library Launches iPad App

nytimes.com | FELICIA LEE | Posted 07.17.2011

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Here an app, there an app, everywhere an apt app. Now, the New York Public Library has created a new iPad app that bring the library’s research coll...

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Why Libraries Still Matter

salon.com | Natasha Lennard | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Jane McGonigal, New York Public Library, New York Public Library Centennial, Libraries, Jerry Brown, Charles Dickens, Rose Reading Room, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Mary Shelley, New York, Nypl, Books News

There are bigger and busier libraries in America, but none more iconic than the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, that state...

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Which eBook Has A 250-Person Waitlist To Check Out From The New York Public Library?

nypost.com | GARETT SLOANE | Posted 06.21.2011

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Amazon is finally in a lending mood. The world's largest online retailer is opening its popular Kindle e-reader to 11,000 libraries in the US, allo...

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Winning the Golden Ticket: the Cullman Institute for Teachers

The New York Public Library | Posted 06.06.2011

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The New York Public Library

By Jess deCourcy Hinds After my week-long fellowship at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center Institute for Teachers last year, I held onto on...

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Artists as Critics

The New York Public Library | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Performing Arts, New York Public Library, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Graphic Design, Broadway, Design, Nypl, Theater, Fraver, Posters, New York News
The New York Public Library

Along with the artwork I've created for other great Broadway classics, including Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George, I am now watching my own designs contribute to Times Square.

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It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Public Library

Writer and editor Elizabeth Livingston is currently working in the New York Public Library's special Wertheim Study researching a book about a family wedding gown gown.

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Dancing in the Dark: Experiencing Dance Without Sight

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Public Library

Dance troupe Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums perform what they call "unseen dance" -- original dances experienced through senses other than sight.

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Freedom of Information Day: Five Questions With David Barstow, Investigative Reporter for the New York Times

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Public Library

We asked Barstow a few questions about the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and its effect on the general public.

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Verso: Looking Behind the Picture

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Public Library

A photographic print has two surfaces. The back side, or verso, can reveal just as much of a photograph's life story.

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