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"Your Leafy Screens Throw Down": Act 5, Scene 6 in the Macbeth Prompt Books
By Douglas Reside, Curator, Theatre Collection | May 24, 2022An examination of the staging of Act 5, Scene 6 of Macbeth in various productions using the Library's collection of prompt books.NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Kathleen “Kat” Cruz Gutierrez
By Nikki Lopez, Librarian II | May 24, 2022Gutierrez is an assistant professor at UCSC and Mellon Fellow with the Humanities Institute Fellow at the New York Botanical Garden.NYC Banned Books Challenge: Fight Book Banning By Reading Banned Books
By NYPL Staff | May 23, 2022We're challenging New Yorkers to read books that represent voices, identities, and perspectives that book banning threatens to erase.Views from the Digital Collections: The 42nd Street Library
By Carrie McBride, Communications | May 23, 2022Images of the beloved building that has hosted researchers, readers, and tourists from around the world.Statue Honoring Playwright Lorraine Hansberry To Be on View at Schomburg Center
By Lisa Herndon, Managers, Schomburg Communications and Publicity | May 20, 2022Learn about in-person and online materials in the Schomburg Center's collections on award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry.Women's Sexual Health: A Reading List
By Laura Stein, Adult Librarian | May 19, 2022Books to shed light on gender and race bias in medicine and help women better understand their bodies and health.Social Media, Vlad, and Electronics! (Wait, What?), Ep. 217
By NYPL Podcasts | May 19, 2022A discussion about how social media affects society and a new campus novel, Vladimir, by Julia May Jonas.NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Michael Cannell
By Andy Mccarthy, Librarian II | May 19, 2022"The Allen Room is a Shangri-La: utter quiet, no chattering office distractions, all the greatest resources a short stroll down the hall."The Korean Collections at the New York Public Library: A Survey
By Hee-Gwone Yoo, Librarian, General Research Division | May 17, 2022Our LibGuide highlights collections of rare Korean prints and manuscripts, photographs, maps, and other printed texts.Helping Students Visualize the Violence of Residential Schools
By Emily Uruchima, Research Associate, Curriculum Development, Center for Education and Schools | May 16, 2022Teaching the Indigenous history of residential schools with primary sources from NYPL's collections.
