LLAGNY BOOK CLUB MARCH DISCUSSION
Thursday February 28th, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
The LLAGNY Book Club will be meeting to discuss The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill on Thursday, February 28th from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. The discussion will take place at the New York Law Institute.
Please RSVP to Jill Gray
We conclude our Black History month profiles with Dr. Carla Hayden — the first female and first African-American Librarian of Congress.Appointed by President Obama in 2016, Dr. Hayden began her career with the Chicago Public library as a children’s librarian in the early 1970s. In 1995, she was […]
While George Washington’s Birthday was established as a federal holiday in 1885 and many states also commemorated Lincoln’s birthday as a holiday, the 1971 Uniform Monday Holiday Act created more three day weekends and Washington’s Birthday morphed into the more generic Presidents’ Day.
P.L. 90-363: Public Laws; House, Senate & Congressional Reports, […]
The New York Law Institute will be closed on Monday, February 20, 2023 in observance of the Presidents’ Day national holiday and will reopen on Tuesday, February 21st at 9:00 AM.
Playwright and founder of an experimental theatre, librarian, historian, and instrumental in the Harlem Renaissance — Regina Anderson Andrews was more than pioneer — she was dynamo whose name should be cherished by all who love the arts and the history of New York City.Consider….
First African American to lead a New York Public Library […]
LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group will meet via Zoom on Thursday February 16th at 12. We will discuss Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King . Please see our LibGuide for past and upcoming titles.
Please contact, Eileen Dolan at edolan@NYLI.org to be added to the meeting.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries, is a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.
World renown research center…. but Who was Arthur Schomburg??
Arthur […]
It’s sometimes hard to imagine life without the internet…. and certainly even harder to imagine a perfectly safe internet. But we can make it safer…. Since 2003, an international Safer Internet Day has sought to guide the world in creating both a safer and a better internet, where everyone is empowered to use […]
The phrase “unsung hero” is often overused; in the case of Millie Huston Lee, the term is certainly more than appropriate. In honor of Black History Month, NYLI will be blogging every Wednesday in February about great African-American librarians. Their names may not be known — but their dedication to literacy affected […]
