Yesterday the New York Public Library’s Board of Trustees announced that the library had acquired approximately 3,000 linear feet of editorial materials from the New York Review of Books archive. The papers date… Read more »

Librarians’ patience has been tested at least as long as there have been libraries. Oh, and as long as there have been people. People to bother them. People who need… 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 »

  Good news, mid-20th-century-printing-technology-heads! The definitive history of the Linotype Company is here: Frank Romano’s unfussily titled History of the Linotype Company (the lack of an “A” or “The” somehow… Read more »

Scott Sherman, the author of a series of award-winning cover stories for The Nation magazine about the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan, will come out with a book… Read more »

The Center for an Urban Future (CUF) released a lengthy report last week that details the issues facing New York City’s various library branches and how to address them, Lisa… Read more »

The New York Public Library is set to display a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence, and, if they’ve learned anything from National Treasure––a modern classic––the library will now… Read more »

In late May, a piece of plaster tumbled down from the ceiling of the New York Public Library’s famous, if somewhat superfluously named, Deborah, Jonathan F.P., Samuel Priest, and Adam… Read more »

In an article in the New York Times on Sunday, Robin Pogrebin reports that the New York Public Library has at last admitted what critics of the now-defunct Central Library… Read more »

The New York Public Library has abandoned a plan to transform the flagship 42nd Street research library and sell the Mid-Manhattan Library. According to a New York Times report by… Read more »