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The 2012 Manhattan Cocktail Classic Wrap-Up: Bigger! Better! Boozier!

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.21.2012

Tony Sachs

Like a plague of locusts or an army of Huns, the cocktailian hordes descended on New York City on May 11 -- bar owners, mixologists, distillers, publi...

NYPL Embraces the Future of Libraries - Today

The New York Public Library | Posted 04.11.2012

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.

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

The Huffington Post | Amber Genuske | Posted 04.06.2012

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...

Gerry Smith

Without Internet, Urban Poor Fear Being Left Behind In Digital Age

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 03.01.2012

Jillian Maldonado is a 29-year-old student at the Mid-Manhattan Adult Learning Center and an Avon sales representative who earns $300 a week. On most ...

Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators Arrested During New York City Protests

Posted 02.29.2012

By Gianna Palmer NEW YORK, Feb 29 (Reuters) - About 10 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were arrested in New York City on Wednesday during prot...

You Won't Believe Where The TVs Are Tuned To Porn

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.22.2012

TVs at electronic retailers may provide customers with a bit of entertainment while they shop, but the images on the screens at one Best Buy had a cus...

LOOK: Stereogranimator Creates Local Historic 3-D Images

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.21.2012

WASHINGTON -- You were probably wondering when the New York Public Library would get around to making a website where you can create 3D and animated G...

Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF?

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 03.27.2012

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

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

The New York Public Library

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

PHOTOS: 10 Awesome Space Illustrations from the 1870's

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 01.12.2012

Today's giant telescopes offer amazing views of distant worlds. But it doesn't take modern technology costing millions to capture the awesome beauty a...

New York Public Library President Is Sentenced For DWI

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.12.2011

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...

Archived Menus Reveal Historic D.C. Restaurant Fare (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 12.03.2011

WASHINGTON -- Although the nation's capital has a grand history of swanky hotels and restaurants, quick turnover has always been a reality. Unlike som...

Gregory Beyer

The Future Of New York's Libraries

HuffingtonPost.com | Gregory Beyer | Posted 11.22.2011

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...

The Future Of Knowledge Architecture

Carla Leitao | Posted 01.09.2012

Carla Leitao

Though information has always changed the structure of its perceiving bodies, there are more opportunities for frequent reconfigurations of our bodies of knowledge.

PHOTOS: New York Public Library Honors Literary Giants

Posted 01.09.2012

Gay Talese was thirsty Monday night, and he let the bartender at the New York Public Library know it. "Keep pouring," the writer, dressed in a well...

NYPL President Arrested For Drunk Driving In Reverse To Avoid Marathon

Posted 01.08.2012

New York Public Library President, Anthony Marx, was arrested on drunk driving charges on Sunday after police officials say he "sideswiped" a parked c...

Libraries: Information and Knowledge Spaces II

Carla Leitao | Posted 11.27.2011

Carla Leitao

Libraries are located at a unique intersection of spatial design. They are spaces that store, articulate and distribute formats (media), which are vessels of information.

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

The New York Public Library | Posted 11.16.2011

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...

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

The New York Public Library | Posted 10.03.2011

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.

UPDATE: JeffCo Library Porn

Posted 09.20.2011

Jefferson County Public Library officials say they cannot control what adults choose to view, according to reports by 9News and the Associated Press. ...

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

The New York Public Library | Posted 09.13.2011

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...

What Big Media Can Learn From The New York Public Library

The Atlantic | Posted 08.23.2011

With all this change -- not to mention a possible $40 million budget cut looming -- it would be no surprise if the library was floundering like the mu...

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

The New York Public Library | Posted 08.22.2011

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.

Anti-Prom: An Alternative to Proms That Suck

The New York Public Library | Posted 08.20.2011

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.

New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers

nytimes.com | Posted 08.16.2011

When the Harvard psychologist and psychedelic explorer Timothy Leary first met the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1960, he welcomed Ginsberg’s particip...