LIBRARY NOTES 2009

January 2009:

• 01/12/2009:   Young Writers Awards 2009 - Seventh Annual Deadline
• 01/13/2009:   Publishing 101 - Chris Evans
• 01/15/2009:   Reader's Theater: Life is a Dream and Other Plays - Rob Ackerman
• 01/21/2009:   Nobel Laureates for Literature - Carol Rial

February 2009:

• 02/03/2009:      My Cosmopolitanism - Kwame Anthony Appiah
• 02/10/2009:    The Screenwriting Life - William Finkelstein
• 02/14/2009:      Mingling with the Old-Time Throng: Love Songs for New York - Michael Lasser
• 02/23/2009:   Project Cicero 2009 - Children's Library
• 02/26/2009:      Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age - Maggie Jackson

March 2009:

• 03/01/2009:   The Big Read 2009: Washington Square - Mercantile Library Center for Fiction
• 03/04/2009:   Primary Previews: A Drama Seminar - Tessa LeNeve
• 03/05/2009:    Leading with Kindness: How Good People Consistently Get Superior Results - William F. Baker
• 03/10/2009:    The Market for Literary Magazines - Rob Casper, Karen Gisonny & Ed Park
• 03/12/2009:      Trying Leviathan - D. Graham Burnett
• 03/26/2009:   Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters - Bakerloo Theatre Project

April 2009:

• From the Chairman of the Board - Charles Berry
• The Library's Five Homes
• Celebration of Forty Years or More of Membership - Development Department
• Planning a Trip? Visit a Membership Library - Jane Goldstein

• 04/02/2009:    The President's Wife and the Librarian - Library Exhibition
• 04/07/2009:   Out of the Past: Mystery and Crime Novels - B.J. Rahn
• 04/09/2009:   Technology Workshops: Spring 2009 - Systems Department
• 04/14/2009:   Marketing and Publicity
• 04/21/2009:      The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust - Lois Metzger and Lola Rein Kaufman
• 04/22/2009:      A Conversation on Washington Square - James Kraft
• 04/25/2009:   The Heiress - Metropolitan Playhouse
• 04/29/2009:   The Shoe Bird - Jim Dale
• 04/30/2009:    Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady - Sylvia Jukes Morris

May 2009:

• 05/06/2009:      New York City Book Awards 2008 - Thirteenth Annual
• 05/12/2009:      Public Art New York - Jean Parker Phifer
• 05/12/2009:    Poetry and the Blending of Voices - Brian Bartlett
• 05/13/2009:    Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• 05/14/2009:   Young Writers Awards 2009 - Seventh Annual Ceremony

July 2009:

• From the Head Librarian - Mark Bartlett
• A Magnificent Gift from Marian Naumburg
• Board Departure and Arrival - Jenny Lawrence & Ada Peluso
• Books to Bind? - George Muñoz
• Library Members Take Literary Honors
• The Penelope K. Bardel Book Fund
• Summer Reading, Staff Style
• The First Annual New Members Party
• New York City Book Awards 2008 Ceremony - Thirteenth Annual Ceremony
• Young Writers Awards 2009 - Seventh Annual Winners
• Meet the Staff - Rachel Henry & Heather Paulson

September 2009:

• 09/17/2009:      Dancing At the River's Edge - Alida Brill & Dr. Michael D. Lockshin
• 09/22/2009:   Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures - Cynthia Saltzman
• 09/23/2009:   Passing - Carol Rial
• 09/24/2009:   An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century - James Orbinski
• 09/25/2009:   Excurson - Sagamore Hill, the Roosevelt House - Harriet Shapiro
• 09/30/2009:      Words by the Water and Other Poems - William Jay Smith

October 2009:

• 10/01/2009:   Beowulf and Gawain Meet Alys: Old and Middle English Classics - Donald McDonough
• 10/06/2009:   Plays by Joyce Carol Oates - Bill Connington and Razors Edge Productions
• 10/13/2009:    The Changing Face of the News - The Writing Life
• 10/15/2009:      Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story - Isabel Gillies
• 10/22/2009:   Technology Workshops: Fall 2009 - Systems Department
• 10/27/2009:   Open Mic Night: Readings and Refreshments - The Writing Life
• 10/28/2009:   The Tale of Despereaux
• 10/29/2009:    The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War - Caroline Alexander

November 2009:

• More Contact with the Library
• Next Season in The Writing Life
• Author Joyce Carol Oates Visits Library

• 11/08/2009:   Prima le Parole (First the Words) - The Center for Contemporary Opera
• 11/10/2009:    Dealing with Permissions and Copyright - The Writing Life
• 11/11/2009:      The Landmark Herodotus and the Landmark Xenophon - Robert B. Strassler
• 11/11/2009:   The Wings of the Dove and Selected Stories - James Kraft on Henry James
• 11/12/2009:    New York Stories - Johanna Hurwitz

December 2009:

• From the Head Librarian - Mark Bartlett
• A Visit with the Acquisitions Department
• Exploring Encyclopedias
• Tax Savings Opportunity
• Celebrate the Holidays with the Library

• 12/06/2009:   For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio - Affinity Collaborative Theater
• 12/08/2009:   Self-Publishing 101 - The Writing Life
• 12/12/2009:   Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical - Karen Eterovich
• 12/16/2009:    A Season of Gifts, with seasonal refreshments - Richard Peck

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