News
Budget Cuts Force NYC Libraries to Stop Sunday Service
The cuts will also affect spending on materials, programming, and facilities at libraries across the five boroughs.
Libraries
News
New Yorkers Can Pick Up Free At-Home Covid Tests at Select Museums and Libraries
Tests are available at the Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and several branches of the city’s three library systems, among other cultural sites.
Opinion
Just like Museums, Libraries Aren't Neutral
There are many structural inequalities baked into the Library of Congress classification system, contributing to the further marginalization of already marginalized groups.
Art
A Lock of Beethoven’s Hair and Maya Angelou’s Papers Are Among NYPL’s Treasures
The exhibition, on view for the next 75 years, features 250 rare items from the library's collection.
Art
The Disappearance of Books Threatens to Erode Fine Arts Libraries
Two major public universities have recently moved to radically downsize or entirely relocate their fine arts libraries, which is in keeping with broader trends of libraries doing away with books.
History
North America's Largest Witchcraft Collection Has Its First Major Exhibition
The first major exhibit on the Cornell University Witchcraft Collection opens Halloween, and explores the persecution of women through its historic objects.
Art
A Project on the Arctic's Vanishing Ice Launches with an Olafur Eliasson Talk
The Arctic Imagination project is a collaboration between six international libraries that draws attention to the Arctic's disappearing ice.
Art
An Archivist Sets Out to Save the Material History of Video Games
Launched in February by Frank Cifaldi, the Video Game History Foundation is racing to preserve ephemeral gaming material and the physical documentation of video games.
Art
The Lost Art of Library Card Catalogues
The art of writing card catalogue entries may be dying, but they still tell us a lot about our data past.
Books
360-Degree Panoramas of Grand American Libraries
Thomas R. Schiff's photographs capture the American library as it transformed from a members-only space into a public institution.
Art
Penn Libraries Acquires Benjamin Franklin's First Broadside, a Skull-Adorned Elegy
In 1723, a teenaged Benjamin Franklin created his first printing piece, a broadside elegy recently acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.
Art
500 Hundred Years of Failed Utopias
USC Libraries considers what utopia means today, 500 years after Sir Thomas More coined the term for his idealized fictional island.