New York Public Library, New York City, 1910 - George P Hall Postcard
Awesome. Would be nice if our local #libraries did stuff like this.
>Pick Up a Free James Baldwin Title in Celebration of His 100th Birthday
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2024/07/10/pick-free-james-baldwin-title-celebration-his-100th-birthday from #NewYorkPublicLibrary
Leaders of New York City's three library systems have for months warned that if budget cuts instituted last year and funding reductions that together total nearly $60 million included in Mayor Eric Adams' executive budget are enacted, Saturday service across the five boroughs' 219 branches could be eliminated
https://thechiefleader.com/stories/city-libraries-face-prospect-of-5-day-weeks,52374
"Led by suffragist and public librarian Maud Malone, [the Library Employee's Union (LEU) of the New York Public Library] was the first of five American Federation of Labor affiliates to emerge at large east coast libraries. Though they disbanded by the end of the 1920s, the LEU instigated spirited debates about unionization across the field of American librarianship."
#NewYorkPublicLibrary #NYPL #LibraryUnions #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2023/06/06/struggle-stacks-researching-nypls-labor-history
#Coltrane recordings lost in #NewYorkPublicLibrary will finally be heard - unreleased 1961 recordings of live sessions with Eric #Dolphy McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman and Elvin Jones at the Village Gate
As Mayor Eric Adams inks a deal to increase police officer pay by billions, libraries say they may not have enough cash to stay open on weekends.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3g5e/nyc-budget-would-close-libraries-on-weekends-while-police-get-huge-bonuses
#Libraries #NEWYORKCITY #NewYorkPublicLibrary #publiclibraries #Policing #ericadams
Astronomical chart, engraved by Georg Hartmann, 16th century (New York Public Library) #astronomicalchart #GeorgHartmann #16thCentury #NewYorkPublicLibrary
The New York Public Library on 42nd Street.
#travel #NewYorkCity #AllInNYC #Library #NewYorkPublicLibrary #Travel #GayTravel #Architecture #TravelPhotography #ArchitecturePhotography #nightphotography #iloveny #nyc
Up to 75 percent of books published before 1964 may now be in the public domain, according to researchers at the New York Public Library.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzyde/librarians-are-finding-thousands-of-books-no-longer-protected-by-copyright-law
#copyright #intellectualproperty #PublicDomain #NewYorkPublicLibrary #Libraries #openaccess
It’s #FensterFreitag and here are three windows in the #NewYorkPublicLibrary. It’s a panorama of three different photos taken with my Rolleiflex 3,5 and Kodak TRI-X.