The LLAGNY Book Club met once again in late February to discuss Australian author Sulari Gentill’s mystery novel The Woman in the Library….
For more on the book club’s discussion of this very contemporary mystery, click here for my full review as posted in Law Lines…. & keep an eye out for posting & […]
We were more than a little surprised when Elvis Presley showed up at NYLI with his entourage — Carmen Miranda, Tina Turner, Marilyn Monroe and Amy Winehouse, for our Favorite Song Lyric Contest Drawing. Tina had the honor of drawing the winners — but all of of our celebrity guests were […]
Law Day is over 60 years old but its mission remains the same: held annually on May 1, it is a national day set aside to celebrate the rule of law.
Past Law Day Themes included celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the Constitution in Times of Change, and Advancing the […]
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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