Events

Please contact us if you’re interested in joining the Programming Committee or simply have an idea for an event.

UPCOMING EVENTS

October 18, 2018, 6PM-8PM

• Fall Social at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery (144 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011).
• See the exhibit John Ashberry: The Construction of Fiction. Curated by Antonio Sergio Bessa
• We would Love to meet you and hear your thoughts and concerns on Librarianship as a career! Learn about the club including its social events, members, history and its vision.
• Take advantage of Networking/Mentoring and Leadership Opportunities
• Explore the details regarding our available yearly Scholarship Award
• Light refreshments will be served

Please RSVP to membership@nylibraryclub.org with your name and affiliation by October 17th so we can get a list to Security and assure your entry.

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