Start Traveling with the Help From NYPL’s Periodical Collections!
Sick of NYC’s cold weather? Got the traveling bug in you? Why not stop by the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building to check out our latest travel magazines for the newest tips, trips, and activities...
View ArticlePrecarity: A Reader's Guide
It is striking the United States has not developed a discourse of precarity. Today,the gap between rich and poor stands at its widest in history, and the unemployment rate hangs around at 8.9%; this...
View ArticleEarth Day Booklist
The first Earth Day was proclaimed on April 22, 1970 by one of its principal founders, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. Already frustrated by the attitudes of big business, Senator Nelson, as the...
View ArticleAdventures in Marketing Research: SimplyMap
It's already been a couple of months since I and a colleague attended a morning of presentations by budding entrepreneurs finishing up their session of FastTrac® NewVenture™. Two weeks before that...
View ArticleBeyond Black Friday and Cyber Monday: Be an Educated Consumer All Year Long
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have entered our lexicon as the first days of the traditional holiday shopping season, marked by door-busters and free shipping for online purchases. The deals come fast...
View ArticleEducation and Employment: Online Diploma Mills
In an environment of globalization, economic volatility and rapid advancement of technologies, the American world of work is evolving with an upward spiral of academic requirements and qualifications....
View ArticleConquer Clutter in 2013
New Year's greetings.,[Newsboy throwing confetti], Digital ID 1587814, New York Public LibraryHappy New Year's Eve! This year remember that the New York Public Library can help you in achieving any of...
View ArticleBookstore Mystique: Martin Boyd, Joyce Cary, and Elizabeth Bowen
There was a time — in what has come to seem more and more a mythical past — when books were everywhere. Along the relatively short stretch of Fifth Avenue between the New York Public Library and...
View ArticleEnvironmental Special Libraries and Museums
Ever since I was young, spurred on by my Recycling Queen aunt, my brother and I become very conscious of recycling and our global footprints. I started recycling papers, cans, bottles and reusing...
View ArticleBooktalking "Human Footprint" by Ellen Kirk
People may not be aware of how much they eat, wear, buy and throw out in their lifetimes. This book brings in the numbers.In your lifetime, you will drive 627,000 miles in a car, eat enough bread to...
View ArticleMake Your Move
There is a good chance that you are starting your summer off in a new home. May, which has been referred to as National Moving Month, kicked off the relocation season. Anyone who has ever moved knows...
View ArticlePalaces of Consumption: The History of Department Stores
A.T. Stewart opened New York City’s first department store in 1846. New Yorkers flocked to the palazzo style “Marble Palace," on Broadway between Chambers and Reade Street to browse through a wide...
View ArticleHow to Clean Things
How to Clean... in NYPL Digital CollectionsHow did you learn how to clean? I guess my parents taught me, and after a few years of chores it just became second nature. Don't mix ammonia and bleach. Sort...
View ArticleBooktalking "Get Real" by Mara Rockliff
Cheap stuff wreaks havoc on the environment. Organic, fair trade, and recycled goods are better for the environment and for the people, plants and animals who inhabit it. The United States and Canada...
View ArticlePreservation Week 2015: Taking Care of Your Collections at Home
The New York Public Library has an enormous amount and variety of collection materials, and those collections require care to help them last. But the Library also has a Preservation Division to care...
View Article130 Years of Good Housekeeping Tips
On May 2, 1885, the first issue of Good Housekeeping was published, and today it is one of the five surviving "Seven Sisters" of women's magazines. In some ways, the word "housekeeping" alone seems...
View ArticleBack in the U.S.S.R.: The Color Red in Early Advertising
Art in Advertising, 1895Green, as you know, is the color of money. Red is for everything else, or at least it may seem so from the way it was used in early advertisements. Red, indeed, has been...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning in 5 Steps
The sunlight is streaming through the curtains and illuminating all of the dust which means that it's time for SPRING CLEANING! Never fear, because the experts have graciously put all their knowledge...
View ArticleGetting Free E-Audiobooks On Your Phone
When I tell people that I listen to free e-audiobooks from the library on both my phone and my computer, I often get a puzzled look and the question, "We can do that?"Yes, we can!You don’t even need a...
View ArticleCelebrate Health Literacy Month: Be Your Own Healthcare Advocate
If you are coping with health issues, for yourself or loved ones, there is a lot to keep track of. In addition to office appointments, there is medical information, various advice and opinions from...
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