Tag: New York Public Library
WSJ: Library Systems in Four NYC Boroughs Plan to Unify Some Tasks
From The Wall Street Journal*: For two years, New York’s three separate library systems have been working on a plan to offer a single, seamless library account for all New Yorkers that would unify checkouts, returns, deliveries and even late fees for the New York, Brooklyn and Queens public libraries. [Clip] By May, the New […]
Financial Times: NYPL Has Spent $1 Million on 45,000 E-books Since 2009
A new article from the Financial Times about the planned renovation of the New York Public Library’s 42nd St. Building includes the $1 million/45,000 ebooks number mentioned in the headline of our post. From the FT Article: …[NYPL President Tony] Marx also knows that the pressures for change are growing. As it happens, his institution […]
2nd Edition of New York Public Library’s Biblion, The Boundless Library iPad App Now Available (Free)
The second edition of Biblion: The Boundless Library app for iPad from the NYPL is is now online. It’s a free download from the app store. This edition is titled, Frankenstein: The Afterlife of Shelley’s Circle. Don’t have access to an iPad? Here’s the web version of the new Biblion. — From the iTunes App […]
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Salman Rushdie Joins Writers Protesting New York Library Revamp
From The Guardian: Major literary names including Salman Rushdie, Art Spiegelman and Mario Vargas Llosa are protesting the planned $300m restructuring of the iconic Fifth Avenue branch of the New York Public Library, saying it is “a misplaced use of funds in a time of great scarcity”. A letter signed by more than 700 writers, […]
New York Public Library Launches John Cage Digital Archive
From SSG Music: The New York Public Library has launched a John Cage digital archive project, John Cage Unbound: A Living Archive. On the archive, Cage fans can celebrate Cage’s centennial curated series of browsable Cage curios; Want to see him play an amplified cacti and plant matter with a feather, review his notes from […]
The New York Public Library Digitizes Early American History
From the NYPL Announcement: Thousands of historical documents at The New York Public Library – including material handwritten by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and papers from authors such as Mark Twain – will soon be accessible to the public online, thanks in large part due to a generous gift of $500,000 from The Polonsky […]
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WSJ: The Changing Culture of the New York Public Library
Note: We’ve updated this post (at the bottom) with a link to a recent keynote lecture (video) by Anthony Grafton. It’s titled, “The Transforming Book”. From an WSJ “Ideas” Blog Post: Anthony Grafton, a professor of history at Princeton and past president of the American Historical Association, is distressed when he contemplates the changes afoot […]
Video: Crowd Sourcing Metadata (Briefing Session from CNI Fall 2011 Meeting)
The video is of a presentation by Barbara Taranto, Digital Program Director, New York Public Library, at the CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Fall 2011 Membership Meeting held in Arlington, VA. The video was recorded on December 12, 2011 and made available on March 26, 2012. Direct to Video (via YouTube) Runs about 38 minutes. […]
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Processing the Timothy Leary Papers at the New York Public Library
A new blog post by Jennifer Ulrich, Specialist, Manuscripts and Archives Division at the NYPL. The post includes several pictures. Ulrich writes: People ask me what my work entails as I process the Timothy Leary papers. As I pore through the boxes, I am faced with over 400 linear ft. of material created and collected […]
New York Public Library and FIT Archives Launch Digital Archive of Historic Fashion Drawings and Sketches
From The NY Times: After two years of planning, the Picture Collection of the New York Public Library and the Special Collections & FIT Archives of the Fashion Institute of Technology Library have recently started a digital archive of fashion drawings and sketches by André Fashion Studios, The collection, André Studios 1930-1941: Fashion Drawings & […]
