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More Videos for Your Uncommon Economic Indicators

Your Uncommon Economic Indicators contributor St. John McKay asks, "What has happened in the church during the recession? Do more or less people go? How about donations?" Here is one of his video...

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After Your Turkey, a Day of Listening

Art and life and storytelling are being celebrated at the New York Public Library's main branch on 42nd Street on the day after Thanksgiving. The library is participating in the National Day of...

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Voltaire's "Candide" Goes Digital

On its first publication in 1759, Voltaire's Candide was banned, pirated, and talked about all over Europe. In 2010, the notorious French satire can be rediscovered by clicking on a newly launched New...

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Battery Park Opens Green Library

While the state has cut funding for public libraries around the city and many have been scaling back their hours and cutting services, it's not all grim news for the New York Public Library system....

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Talk to Me: 'Eight White Nights' with André Aciman

“Most of literature is about love, if it’s not about war,” declared writer André Aciman. He spoke with New York Public Library President Paul LeClerc about the meaning of literature during a recent...

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Three Faiths: NY Public Library Exhibition Celebrates Shared Religious...

George Fletcher, the head curator of the New York Public Library's “Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam,” is beaming. Beginning on Friday, he will finally get the chance to show off two years of...

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NY Public Library Encourages Kids to Chill Out with Summer Reading

The school year isn't over yet, and technically it isn't even summer. But as temps soared into the 90s Thursday, the New York Public Library launched its annual summer reading program. And for the...

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Got Overdue Fines at City Library Branches? Forget About It.

Forgot to return a library book or DVD? Got library fines that you are reluctant to pay? The solution is here. Programs at libraries in Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island are helping...

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New York Public Library Celebrating 100 Years

Elaine Charnov, director of education, programming and exhibitions at the New York Public Library, talks about the exhibition “Celebrating 100 Years,” which includes artifacts belonging to literary...

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Read Down Your Debt

Parents, your child has only a few more days to read away his or her library fines. Since July 25, the New York Public Library’s Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island branches have given children,...

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Former New York Officials' Trip Paid by Pearson

Hadas Goshen "School cuts hurt," chanted parents, teachers and education advocates who gathered in front of the Tweed building on Wednesday in another protest over the pending layoffs of school aides...

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Students With Library Fines Get 'New Chapter'

The slate is clean. City students under the age of 18 can now return their overdue library books without any penalties through Oct. 31. The city's three public library systems (the Queens, Brooklyn and...

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City Libraries Want Young Readers to Turn Over a New Leaf

Benevolence is the latest thing young patrons can check out with their library cards. A program called the "New Chapter" that started on Thursday will forgive fines on overdue library books for patrons...

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New York Public Library Chief Arrested on Drunken Driving Charges

The president of the New York Public Library was arrested on Sunday afternoon on drunken driving charges. A New York Police Department spokesperson said Anthony Marx reversed his car and sideswiped a...

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New York Public Library President Anthony Marx

New York Public Library President Anthony Marx talks about the library's plan for its 42nd Street building, and will address the criticism and controversy over those plans. that Scott Sherman and Caleb...

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Public Library Access Expands to 400 Schools

A program that allows students to order library books directly from their schools is set to expand this year beyond Manhattan. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that about 250,000 students will be...

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The Future of Libraries

Despite the growth of e-readers and digital technology, New Yorkers are spending more time in libraries than ever. That's according to a new report out today from the Center for an Urban Future about...

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Giving Libraries Their Due

David Giles, research director at the Center for an Urban Future and the author of the report, "Branches of Opportunity", argues that New York City's public libraries deserve even more support in the...

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NY Public Library President Defends Renovation Plans

Four years of planning, and a $300 million price tag. But the New York Public Library’s large-scale renovation still isn’t impressing a prominent architecture critic. In his review of the project...

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NYC's Public Libraries

Linda Johnson, president and CEO of The Brooklyn Public Library, Thomas Galante, president and CEO of Queens Library and Anthony Marx, president of New York Public Library, come together to talk about...

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