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UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday June 18, 2018, 5:30pm – 7pm
Located in midtown Manhattan, the Jorge Luis Borges Library houses a collection of approximately 85,000 items in a variety of formats: books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, MP3 audiobooks, CD-ROMs, electronic resources, and more.
The modern facilities include a comfortable reading area as well as multi-system audiovisual equipment for viewing feature films and documentaries in both the European (PAL) and American (NTSC) systems. Open to the public, the library provides services to thousands of users throughout the United States, both in person and through our distance services.
(http://nyork.cervantes.es/en/default.shtm)
WHERE:
Instituto Cervantes, New York
211 E 49th St
Between 2nd & 3rd Ave.
New York, NY 10017
WHEN:
Monday June 18, 2018
5:30pm – 7:00pm
PROGRAM:
5:30-6 Business Meeting
6-6:30 Tour of the Jorge Luis Borges Library
6:30-7 Wine & Cheese Reception
COST:
Members – Free
$15 – Non-members (fee may be applied towards membership)
$10 – Students
RSVP:
Please RSVP no later than Thursday June 14, 2018 with your full name, email address and affiliation to membership@nylibraryclub.org.
PAST EVENTS
2017-2018
- Spring Event at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library
- Winter Event at the Anthology Film Archive
2016-2017
- 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
