Posts by Colleen Gibson

How do we #LoveReading? Let us count the ways.

Patience and Fortitude are the beloved lions located outside of our 42nd Street location. These timeless lions have been guarding the Library for over 100 years—but how well do you really know them? Our fact-filled quiz will help you find out!

We're celebrating the publication anniversary of the Dickens' classic with this special reading by Neil Gaiman from 2013.

Get out and vote.

This year the Library is pleased to announce the 2019 Library Lions: Elizabeth Alexander, Philip Glass, Jamaica Kincaid, Jill Lepore, and Frederick Wiseman.

Banned Books Week is an annual event promoting the importance of the freedom to read, and highlighting attempts to censor books in schools and libraries.

Tattooing has been around for thousands of years, and it's no surprise that books and literature often serve as tattoo inspiration.

To honor one of the biggest movie franchises of our time, we started wondering: What should the Avengers read?

Welcome to NYPL's Sixth Annual Literary March Madness (#LiteraryMarchMadness)! This is a bracket-style tournament like the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, but with a bookish twist: our competition pits popular heroes and villains against each other and the winner is decided by you!

Every year on the fourth Wednesday of January, libraries and book lovers across social media put a bookish spin on a selfie by taking photos with bookshelves and using the perfect hashtag—#LibraryShelfie!

The nominees for the 2019 Academy Awards have been announced. While the films are being celebrated, we couldn't help but notice something: books played major roles in many of the contenders for the 91st Oscars.

On the morning of the National Book Awards, we sat down with some of the finalists to ask them questions about books they have read a million times, which NYPL lion they identify with the most, and more.

The New York Public Library and Boston Public Library have teamed up to have some fun around the American League Division Series between longtime, bitter rivals The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.

There are about as many parts to a poem as the imagination can hold.

As adults, nostalgia may lead us to revisit and reconsider the stories of our youth, so we've assembled this list of adult books that turn a critical eye toward children's favorites.

With 92 locations across New York City, there's a lot going on! We're highlighting some of our events here, including author talks, free classes, community art shows, performances, concerts, and exhibitions.

The New York Public Library is pleased to announce that nationally-syndicated radio personality, lifelong New Yorker, and die-hard library enthusiast Angela Yee is now an NYPL Ambassador.

On August 16, The New York Public Library will be honoring three young readers who participated in our Summer Reading Challenge. For this year's challenge, patrons between ages 6-18 were asked to write an essay about a favorite book and how it impacted them.

Patience and Fortitude, the lions that stand proudly in front of the Library's 42nd Street location, have captured the imagination and affection of New Yorkers since 1911. But which lion do you identify more with: Patience or Fortitude?