NYPL Blogs

March is Women's History Month—a time to celebrate achievements women have made throughout the course of American history in various fields. This booklist highlights four women: Alice Waters, Patsy Takemoto Mink, Florence Merriam Bailey, and Coco Chanel with an outstanding children's book about each along with recommended titles related to each woman's great passion (healthy eating, gender equality in sports, birds, and fashion). These would be 

每月一次的網上中文書籍討論會。在討論會中，大家講，大家聽，大家都能暢所欲言，講出各自獨特的見解。

Coblentz was a dedicated librarian whose work created catalog and authority records that were the products of detective work, deep research, and scholarly skepticism about assumed facts.

If seeing art around New York City inspires young kids to learn more, NYPL has many wonderful children's books about inspiring women artists.

Whether your family member is missing from the family album, or you can't identify someone in photos, this guide is full of information about using NYPL's collections for image research.

Psychological thrillers, a sci-fi classic, historical fiction set in Japan, romance in Regency London, and a time travel mystery—check them out before you stream them.

This guide features some of the items on view in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures that demonstrate the barriers women have broken and spaces they have made for themselves in the arts, sciences, literature, politics, and more through innovation, creativity, and advocacy.

From books about courageous and trailblazing women to books that empower and inspire young readers, it's never too early to read to your little one.

If you are watching the program 'Harlem' on Amazon Prime Video, you might have seen the Schomburg Center in episode nine, titled "Secrets." Emmy and Peabody Award–winner Neema Barnette directed the episode. Learn more about this trailblazing director and find out which one of our exhibitions inspired the set created for the program.

Through painting, sculpture, photography, and many other art forms, these artists express struggles, hopes, oppression, dreams, and strength.

From empresses to activists, pioneering scientists to secret spies, these 10 titles highlight remarkable women and their stories.

No matter what you're interested in, something in this list of works from women authors will click.

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" is only good advice if you can tell the difference between the two.

This week, hosts Crystal and Frank were joined for a chat by AJ Muhammad, the Head Reference Librarian in the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.  

In this episode, NYPL's Elizabeth Cronin spoke with writer Lydia Pyne about her book 'Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Social Network'. They discussed how these personal connections can be traced within the Library's beloved Picture Collection.

Whether you're looking to enhance your hygge-ness through knitting, baking, sewing, or cozy decor or you just want to settle down with an entertaining magazine to read, here is just a small sampling of all the e-magazines available with your library card.

Kiese Laymon, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Will Smith, and more—here are the books that won an Image Award this year

These children’s books show respectful and genuine representation of disability.

These titles feature the work of Black authors and illustrators and showcase Black characters, experiences, and history.