Every year the Brooklyn Public Library hosts an Artist in Residence to connect local artists to the library and its patrons. According to the library website, the program offers library… Read more »

In honor of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday this Friday (May 31), I originally wanted to write 200 different ways to remember and celebrate him. After staring my list, I thought… Read more »

True fact: Libraries are the best, even beside the fact that their most basic function—to make an endless supply of books available, for free, to everybody—is just psychedelically excellent. For… Read more »

Last week we wrote about the secret (and kind of spooky) history of apartments located within the walls of various branches of the New York Public Library. Based on what… Read more »

Urban Librarians Unite, an association of urban librarian professionals and advocates, held their third annual conference last Friday at the Brooklyn Public Library. Featured speakers included Lancelot Chase, a gaming… Read more »

When I was in high school, I checked a book of Greek mythology out of the school library. That, or I simply walked out with it in my pocket—I don’t… Read more »

Events to celebrate the life of Thomas Merton, the poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator and social critic, are planned around the world—from Ireland to Iowa, to Sydney and Brazil—to mark… Read more »

New York City is home to three wonderful library systems — the New York Public Library (NYPL), the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and the Queens Library (QL). Each system issues… Read more »

Brooklyn Public Library’s unanimous vote on Tuesday to approve a 52 million dollar sale of the Brooklyn Heights Branch to developer Hudson Companies was met with outrage from Citizens Defending Libraries, the… Read more »

Melissa Morrone, a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library, helps patrons navigate the internet safely and securely every day. In an essay for Waging Nonviolence, she describes how digital information… Read more »