The Brooklyn Public Library's Grand Army Plaza branch is unveiling a new showcase space, The Shelby White and Leon Levy Information Commons. According to The Wall Street Journal, it was designed with freelancers in mind. System upgrades include iMacs with lots of new software and new classrooms [Full Story…]
Transforming NY #Libraries for the #Digital Age
January 11, 2013 at 4:08 pm
More than 40.5 million people visited the NY public libraries last year, more than the combined attendance at professional sporting events and major cultural institutions. According to a report from Center for an Urban Future, libraries are most popular with seniors, foreign-born NYers, at-risk [Full Story…]
Bklyn Espresso Book Machine Dispenses Paperbacks
March 10, 2012 at 2:03 pm
The Brooklyn Public Library’s newest espresso machine doesn’t serve coffee. Instead, the Espresso Book Machine prints paperbacks on demand. Linda Johnson, BPL’s president and CEO, told The Wall Street Journal that when she started looking for a book machine last year, the price $125,000 [Full Story…]
“Internets Celebrities” Videos Take On NY Social Issues
June 5, 2010 at 11:00 am
Three New York men, Casmir Nozkowski, Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam, who call themselves the "Internets Celebrities", are gaining notoriety from their short online video social critiques. The blue-language laden videos are deconstructing "the worlds of check-cashing outlets, street vendors [Full Story…]
Brooklyn Library to Get $3.25 Million Tech Upgrade
May 25, 2010 at 10:47 am
New York Philanthropist Shelby White is donating $3.25 million to the Brooklyn Public Library to create the Leon Levy Information Commons, a technology-based learning and research hub at the Central Library. The donation comes at a time when NYC libraries are facing severe budget cuts.The Commons, [Full Story…]
NYC Budget Cuts Could Mean Library Closings and Lost Internet
May 21, 2010 at 7:11 am
The new cuts proposed by Mayor Bloomberg's executive budget for the 2010 fiscal year could potentially devastate New York's library systems, which means cutting off Internet access to many New Yorkers. An example, according to an article in The New York Times is the Queens Library, [Full Story…]
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