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Inside the Grolier Club, an Upper East Side Private Club Dedicated to the Book Arts | Untapped Cities

Nestled among the beautiful townhouses of the Upper East Side is the Grolier Club, a private club dedicated to the book arts. Founded in 1884 and named for the great French Renaissance bibliophile Jean Grolier, the club hosts eight exhibitions … Continue reading

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Georgians Revealed | Georgian Exhibition at the British Library

  Tasteful and polite, or riotous and pleasure-obsessed? Discover the Georgians as they really were, through the objects that tell the stories of their lives. From beautifully furnished homes to raucous gambling dens, Georgians Revealed explores the revolution in everyday … Continue reading

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BUILD YOUR RESEARCH SKILLS WITH OUR MYMETRO RESEARCHERS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

  Now in its third year, the myMETRO Researchers program offers myMETRO members an opportunity to build their research chops in a supportive environment. The first two cohorts of myMETRO Researchers have had opportunities to design full-fledged research projects and … Continue reading

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Petition | Designate 31 West 57th Street as an individual and interior landmark. | Change.org

Petitioning New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission The Rizzoli Bookstore building is an icon of New York City architecture and one of the most beautiful commercial spaces in America. It is an impressive example of adaptive reuse of a former … Continue reading

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Call for Papers : World Library and Information Congress: 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly Lyon, France, from 16-22 August 2014 Congress theme: “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge”

Please share with colleagues.  Any questions, please contact Fred Gitner, Queens Library, as indicated below.  Thanks.   Please excuse any duplication.     Call for Papers Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section Theme: Libraries as Modern Towers of Babel: Fostering … Continue reading

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10 Ways LinkedIn’s New ‘Contacts’ Can Help Job Hunters – OEDB.org

Ellyssa Kroski: January 24, 2014 LinkedIn used to be just another place to post your resume, but over the past couple of years it has evolved to be so much more. Most recently, LinkedIn rolled out enhanced functionality to its … Continue reading

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The User Is (Still) Not Broken There are disruptions everywhere—formats, distribution, and technology—but the one constant that gets forgotten is people By Bryan Kenney | Jan 27, 2014

Back in 2006, Karen Schneider, now university librarian at Oakland, Calif.’s Holy Names University, published “The User Is Not Broken: A Meme Masquerading as a Manifesto” on her blog, the Free Range Librarian. The post, as radical as it was … Continue reading

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6 Terms that Instantly Reveal You as a Librarian Ellyssa Kroski — January 29, 2014

Few professions are as steeped in tradition and esoteric knowledge as librarianship. We have our own dialect packed with specialized jargon that only others in our vocation would understand. To decipher all of this we even have our own dictionary! … Continue reading

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Wiki Edit-a-thon@Eyebeam Saturday February 1st, noon-6pm

    Join the “Art + Feminism” Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Eyebeam, aimed at collaboratively expanding Wikipedia articles covering Art and Feminism, and the biographies of women artists organized by Eyebeam Fellows, members of ARLIS, faculty of CUNY College of Staten … Continue reading

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Kristin Heitman on Health Efforts in 16th-Century London–History of Medicine Lecture at NYAM–Thursday, February 20th @ 6:00 pm

  Dr. Kristin Heitman’s lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine, “Counting the Dead in Reformation London: 16th-Century Community Health Efforts,” originally schedule for Tuesday, January 21, but postponed due to snow, is now rescheduled for Thursday, February 20—lecture … Continue reading

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