It’s Library Week… and the American Library Association’s 2023 theme is “there’s always more to the story” …
And we’ll be concluding our month long blog celebration of the profession with a profile of great librarians. There is always more to our story — & so here are just a few of the many […]
Well, we are in our third week into blogging about libraries and librarians, and after last week’s rather lighthearted topic of Librarians in Pop Culture, we thought we’d turn our attention to important moments in library history. Which, when you think about it, are important moments in human progress…..
Information really isn’t information […]
Well, here we are, another Wednesday in April, and that means a NYLI blog celebrating librarians….
Sophisticates pretend they aren’t effected by the popular… but images often subtly change our opinions or can, unfortunately, reinforce long-held stereotypes….
So here’s a salute to those pop culture creations that advanced the image of the librarian profession….
While […]
National Library Week isn’t until the end of the month, but we’ve decided to feature a blog celebrating libraries every Wednesday in April. After all, libraries & librarians are just too vital to be relegated to a single week!
How a society values an institution is often reflected in the grandeur of architecture… and so […]
April is here… & that means it’s officially poetry month!
Recently, songwriter Bob Dylan won the Nobel prize for “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”… confirming what we all know… that song lyrics are poetry too!
Send us the title of your favorite Song Lyric…. (a classic rock tune? […]
Author Bryan R. Dunlap stopped by NYLI offices to present a copy of his book, and to thank Lucy Curci-Gonzalez and NYLI librarians for helping him research the life and times of Charles O’Conor….
The Boy from Front Street; Charles O’Conor, Strenuous New Yorker by Bryan R. Dunlap….Signed copy now part of NYLI collection….
We enjoyed […]
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We are wrapping up our salute to Women’s History Month with a shout out to a topic near to our hearts — Women in Librarianship….
You probably know of the recent controversies regarding librarians and censorship…..
Sign designed by Librarian, Technologist, & Blogger Jessamyn West
But did you know that Zoia Horn was the first […]
You probably know that Moore’s Federal Practice is one of the go to sources for federal procedure, appellate procedure, and federal courts. ….
1st Edition of Moore’s… from 1938… part of NYLI’s superseded collection… & available to members….
But did you know that the original Moore’s (1st Edition, 1938) was written by the late […]
For the 17th of March — NYLI & James T. Brady wish a heartfelt céad míle fáilte to all our Blog Readers !
James T. Brady — 19th Century’s greatest criminal defense attorney, NYLI luminary and now permanent resident (or at least his bust is, lol) got into the spirit of things this St. […]
