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There are a lot of ways to take stock of the year as New Year's Eve draws near and, naturally, the librarians and staff at the Queens Public Library are

There are a lot of ways to take stock of the year as New Year's Eve draws near and, naturally, the librarians and staff at the Brooklyn Public Library are

People in the world's borough can now swiftly hurdle a language barrier at the library.

Take Action For QPL To The Editor: Fittingly, the story of how I became a librarian began inside of a library. After graduating from college with a degree in history, I had absolutely no idea what pro­fession could combine my love of infor­mation and research with a desire to serve the community. I turned to

MAYOR ADDRESSES FINANCE, WAYS & MEANS COM’S: New York City Mayor Eric Adams provided testimony on Feb. 15 to the New York State Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees, focusing on critical investments in jobs, safety, housing, and care as well as fiscal challenges facing the city. Adams told a joint legislative budget

New York’s public libraries could be forced to cut their hours and programming. The City Council wants to protect their funding in the next budget battle.

NYC Public Libraries Eye Next Phase Of Reopening arrow When the pandemic hit, much of the city shut down, including its public libraries—they closed on March 14, 2020, and over a year later have yet to restore full service. Natalya Murakhver is an Upper West Side mom and a self-described “fan and frequent patron” of her local public library. She said she can’t understand why the city’s library systems have been so slow to restore something similar to pre-pandemic service, wh...

Book returned to New York library was 63 years overdue By (0) Wisconsin resident Betty Diamond mailed a book back to the Queens Public Library in New York 63 years after she checked it out. File photo by Valkr/Shutterstock March 17 (UPI) -- A woman who checked a book out from a New York library in 1957 mailed the overdue volume back to the facility with a $500 donation. Ol Paul, the Mighty Logger, a collection of Paul Bunyan stories by Glen Rounds, from a Queens Public Library branch in 1957....