Events

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UPCOMING EVENTS

July 19, 2022, 6pm

• Annual Business Meeting at The Lambs Club:
  WHEN:
  Tuesday July 19, 2022 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
  WHERE:
  The Lambs 3 West 51st Street, New York, NY 10019

  PLEASE NOTE: This is not The Chatwal Hotel’s Lambs Club Restaurant.

  About the Tour:
  

  The Lambs: founded in 1874, is the oldest professional theatrical organization in the United States. Come on a private free tour led by the Club historian/Librarian of the landmark clubhouse at 3 W. 51st St., between fifth and sixth Avenues. See more than 150 years of history, paintings, art, photos, memorabilia, archival items and more. The club has had more than 6600 members, hear some stories about some of the most famous ones. Afterwards enjoy dinner and drinks in the pub, credit cards accepted. Dress code is business casual.

  https://the-lambs.org/

  Dress Code: 

  Business Casual

  Cost/RSVP:
  None. Please RSVP by July 12 by replying to this email or on EventBrite:

  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nylc-annual-business-meeting-at-the-lambs-tickets-377980187917
  Membership Renewals:
  Please join or renew your membership for 2022-2023 on our website
  https://nylibraryclub.org/membership/

PAST EVENTS

• Annual Business Meeting at the Goethe Institut Library
• Annual Spring Event at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library
• Annual Holiday Dinner and Scholarship Award at Forlini’s Restaurant – Monday December 5, 2016

2015-2016

• Annual Business Meeting  at the The Yale Club of New York City
  – Monday, June 13, 2016
• Annual Holiday Dinner and Scholarship Award at the Charlie Palmer at the Knick – Tuesday, December 1, 2015

2014-2015

• Annual Business Meeting at the French Institute Alliance Française – Tour of the Haskell Library – Monday June 22, 2015 – Please see our Blog for details.
• Spring Event at the Center for Jewish History – Tour of the newly renovated Berg Rare Book Room, main library, Genealogy Institute, and Digital Lab – Monday April 27, 2015
• Annual Holiday Dinner and Scholarship Award at the Algonquin Hotel – Monday, December 1, 2014
• Fall Event Thursday October 23, 2014 – Tour of the Boo-Hooray Gallery and Archive

2013-2014

• Opening event Thursday, September 12, 2013-Tour of the National Museum of the American Indian  followed by a reception at the Fraunces Tavern
• Fall event Tuesday, October 22, 2013-Tour of the Strand Bookstore   followed by a break-out event at Cosi Restaurant.
• Holiday event, Thursday, November 21, 2013 – Il Riccio Restaurant
• Spring event Tuesday, April 8, 2014 – Tour of the Fashion Institute of Technology and Gladys Marcus Library.

2012-2013

• Fall reception, September 13, 2012 – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
• Annual Business Meeting, June 18, 2013 – Information Commons Guttman Community College or CUNY

2011-2012

• Fall reception, September 2011 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J. Watson Library

 2010-2011

• Annual Business Meeting, June 22, 2011-New York Society Library 

2009-2010

• Opening Reception, September 17, 2009 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J. Watson Library
• Fall event, November 17, 2009 – Ellis Island Archives
• Holiday event, December 2, 2009 – Les Sans Culottes
• Annual Business Meeting 2009  – Poet’s House

2008-2009

• Annual Business Meeting, June 2009 – New York Public Library’s new Grand Central Branch
• April 2009 – The Grolier Club,Vivat Rex! (Long Live the King!—Henry VIII, that is)
• March 2009 – Paley Center for Media
• November 2008 – Brooklyn Historical Society
• Fall Reception, September 2008 – NYPL’s Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center

2007-2008

• Spring Event, April 2008 – French Culinary Institute Library
• Mid-Winter Meeting, February 2008 – The Foundation Center Library
  • Foundation Center Data, Where It Comes From, How It Is Disseminated
  • David Jacobs, Senior Editor
  • Rebecca MacLean, Director of Grants Processing
• Holiday Social, November 2007 – The New York Historical Society Library
• Fall Reception, September 2007 – New York Public Library, Science, Business & Industry Library

2006-2007

• Business Meeting, May 2007 – New York Public Library, Seward Park Branch
• Spring Event, April 2007 – New York County Lawyers’ Association Library
  • President Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney
  • Professor James Simon, New York Law School
• Holiday Social, December 2006 – Rubin Museum of Art
  • Dragons of the Desert, Dinosaur Findings in the Gobi
  • Dr. Mark Norell, American Museum of Natural History
• Fall Reception, September 2006 – Trinity Church Archives
  • Getting Control of Your Anger
  • Dr. Robert Allan, Weil Medical College of Cornell University

2005-2006

• Business Meeting, May 2006 – Joan B. and William G. Spears Center for Pastoral Research Library at the HealthCare Chaplaincy
• Spring Event, March 2006 – Williams Club
  • Putting Women on the Map, Participants in the Early Modern Map Trade
  • Alice Hudson, Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division, New York Public Library
• Holiday Social, December 2005 – The Accompanied Library at the National Arts Club
  • Books on Ice, the British and American Literature of Polar Exploration
  • Drs. David and Dierdre Stam
• Fall Reception, September 2005 – Poets House Library