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Library Events: Early Fall 2010

09/21/2010: Mark Twain's Travels - Roy Blount Jr. with Max Rudin
10/03/2010: Love is Here to Stay: The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Michael Lasser
10/04/2010: Ongoing Writers' Groups
10/05/2010: A Conversation with Shirley Hazzard - Robert Harrison
10/14/2010: Raising Passionate Readers - Nancy Newman
10/17/2010: Library Staff Walk in Central Park for Cancer Research - American Cancer Society
10/18/2010: Reading Nostalgia - Carol Rial
10/19/2010: Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris
10/19/2010: Dante's Inferno - Donald McDonough
10/20/2010: Henry James' The Golden Bowl - James Kraft
10/21/2010: Beloved Plays by A.R. Gurney - Bill Connington and Razor's Edge Productions
10/28/2010: Beloved Plays by A.R. Gurney - Bill Connington and Razor's Edge Productions
11/03/2010: Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography - Susan Cheever
11/05/2010: Secret Letters from 0 to 10 by Susie Morgenstern - Mother-Daughter Book Discussion
11/09/2010: Writing Your Life: A Memoir Workshop - Sallie Bingham
11/09/2010: Open Mic Night III
11/10/2010: Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff
11/10/2010: Henry James' The Golden Bowl - James Kraft
11/11/2010: Writing Your Life: A Memoir Workshop - Sallie Bingham
11/12/2010: Broken Pencils and Dried-Up Paint - An Unfortunate Evening with Brett Helquist
11/15/2010: Reading Nostalgia - Carol Rial
11/21/2010: Tea and Trollope - Blanche Siegal
12/08/2010: Henry James' The Golden Bowl - James Kraft
12/19/2010: Tea and Trollope - Blanche Siegal
12/20/2010: Reading Nostalgia - Carol Rial
01/12/2011: Henry James' The Golden Bowl - James Kraft
01/16/2011: Tea and Trollope - Blanche Siegal
01/31/2011: Exhibition Reminder - Literary Lives

Library Events: April & May 2010

05/05/2010: The New York City Book Awards 2009-2010
05/19/2010: The Eighth Annual Young Writers Awards
04/12/2010: Ongoing Writers' Groups
04/28/2010: Paul and Me - A.E. Hotchner with Mark Singer
04/29/2010: Sounds from the World of Francis Steegmuller and Shirley Hazzard - Opus Nine Chamber Ensemble
05/23/2010: A Terrible Beauty - Peter Behrens & Paul Sullivan
04/20/2010: Primary Previews: A Drama Seminar - Primary Stages
05/06/2010: Computer and Technology Classes

Library Notes: Spring 2010

From the Head Librarian: Spring 2010 - Mark Bartlett
Off the Shelf: A Reader's Review - Andrew Corbin
Words from William Makepeace Thackeray - Laura O'Keefe, Head of Cataloging

Library Events: March 2010

03/01/2010: Welcome to the Library
03/24/2010: Literary Lives - Library Exhibition
03/10/2010: Too Big to Fail - Andrew Ross Sorkin
03/16/2010: Evocations of Armenia - Nora Armani and David Bakamjian
03/25/2010: Dvorak in New York - Joelle Wallach
04/06/2010: Proust the Reader - Anka Muhlstein
04/29/2010: Francis Steegmuller and Shirley Hazzard - Opus Nine Chamber Ensemble
04/13/2010: This Book is Overdue - Marilyn Johnson
04/17/2010: Early Homes of the Society Library - Walking Tours with Maria Dering
05/05/2010: Awards Ceremony 2010 - New York City Book Awards
03/10/2010: Henry James' The Ambassadors - James Kraft
04/06/2010: Murder in Faraway Places - B.J. Rahn
04/20/2010: Primary Previews: A Drama Seminar - Primary Stages
03/09/2010: The Google Book Settlement - Jan Constantine
04/13/2010: Social Networking for Writers - Gretchin Rubin
03/01/2010: Ongoing Writers' Groups
03/18/2010: Open Mic Night: Readings and Refreshments
03/12/2010: The Tree That Time Built - Mary Ann Hoberman with Linda Winston
03/01/2010: The Eighth Annual Young Writers Awards
04/16/2010: Neighborhood of Stories - Steven Kroll

Library Events: January 2010

01/11/2010: Young Writers Awards Competition Open
01/12/2010: Understanding Print and Digital Piracy
01/27/2010: The Last Empress - Hannah Pakula
01/28/2010: A Literary Magazine Salon
02/07/2010: The Graphic Novel and Memoir - Carol Rial
02/07/2010: Angelina Ballerina - Katharine Holabird
02/09/2010: Working with an Editor
02/11/2010: Inside of a Dog - Alexandra Horowitz
02/17/2010: Beowulf and Gawain Meet Alys - Donald McDonough
02/22/2010: Project Cicero Book Collection
02/25/2010: The Changing World of Sports Journalism - H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger
02/26/2010: Understood Betsy - Book Discussion
03/09/2010: The Google Book Settlement
03/12/2010: The Tree That Time Built - Mary Ann Hoberman with Linda Winston
03/16/2010: Evocations of Armenia - Nora Armani and David Bakamjian
03/18/2010: Open Mic Night: Readings and Refreshments
03/24/2010: Literary Lives: The World of Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller
03/25/2010: Dvorák in New York - Joelle Wallach
04/13/2010: Social Networking for Writers

Library Events: November 2009

Library Notes: October 2009

More Contact with the Library
Next Season in The Writing Life
Author Joyce Carol Oates Visits Library
11/08/2009: Prima le Parole - The Center for Contemporary Opera
11/10/2009: Dealing with Permissions and Copyright - The Writing Life
11/11/2009: Wings of the Dove - James Kraft on Henry James
11/11/2009: Landmark Herodotus - Robert B. Strassler
11/12/2009: New York Stories - Johanna Hurwitz
12/06/2009: For the Time Being - Affinity Collaborative Theater
12/08/2009: Self-Publishing 101 - The Writing Life
12/12/2009: Cheer from Chawton - Karen Eterovich
12/16/2009: A Season of Gifts - Richard Peck

Library Events: September 2009

09/17/2009: Dancing At the River's Edge - Alida Brill & Dr. Michael D. Lockshin
09/22/2009: Old Masters, New World - Cynthia Saltzman
09/23/2009: Passing - Carol Rial
09/24/2009: An Imperfect Offering - Dr. James Orbinski
09/25/2009: Excursion to Sagamore Hill - Harriet Shapiro
09/30/2009: Words by the Water and Other Poems - William Jay Smith
10/01/2009: Beowulf and Gawain Meet Alys - Donald McDonough
10/06/2009: Joyce Carol Oates - Bill Connington & Razors Edge Productions
10/13/2009: The Changing Face of the News
10/15/2009: Happens Every Day - Isabel Gillies
10/22/2009: Technology Workshops
10/27/2009: Open Mic Night - The Writing Life
10/28/2009: The Tale of Despereaux - Family Book Discussion
10/29/2009: The War That Killed Achilles - Caroline Alexander
11/10/2009: Dealing with Permissions and Copyright - The Writing Life
11/12/2009: New York Stories - Johanna Hurwitz

Library Events: January 2009

01/12/2009: The Seventh Annual Young Writers Awards
01/13/2009: Publishing 101 - Chris Evans
01/15/2009: Reader's Theater - Rob Ackerman
01/21/2009: Nobel Laureates for Literature - Carol Rial
02/03/2009: My Cosmopolitanism - Kwame Anthony Appiah
02/10/2009: The Screenwriting Life - William Finkelstein
02/14/2009: Love Songs for New York - Michael Lasser
02/23/2009: Project Cicero 2009
02/26/2009: Distracted - Maggie Jackson
03/04/2009: Primary Previews: A Drama Seminar - Tessa LeNeve
03/05/2009: Leading with Kindness - William F. Baker
03/12/2009: Trying Leviathan - D. Graham Burnett
04/21/2009: The Hidden Girl - Lois Metzger and Lola Rein Kaufman

Library Events: November 2008

12/15/2008: The Miraculous Messiah of George Frederick Handel by Joelle Wallach
12/07/2008: For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio - Affinity Collaborative Theater
12/03/2008: Why the Dalai Lama Matters - Robert Thurman
11/22/2008: Book Sale
11/12/2008: Balanchine Variations - Nancy Goldner with Merrill Ashley
11/06/2008: Shelf Life: Books in Brass - Christopher Hewat

Library Notes: October 2008

10/01/2008: From the Head Librarian: A Community of Readers
10/01/2008: Having an Impact - Joan Zimmett
10/01/2008: Miss an Event? Attend Virtually
10/01/2008: Status: In Cataloging

Library Events: September 2008

11/11/2008: Monsters, Myths and Magic by Bruce Coville
10/30/2008: Red Car in Context by Sallie Bingham
10/28/2008: Kingmakers - Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer
10/23/2008: The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story - Frances Kiernan
10/21/2008: First the Author - Laura Vaccaro Seeger
10/15/2008: The Way It Wasn't by Daniel Javitch with Gus Powell
10/15/2008: Workshops: Fall 2008
10/02/2008: East Meets West - John Koller
10/01/2008: Virgil's Aeneid - Donald McDonough
09/29/2008: Bikeman - Thomas F. Flynn with Jim Dale
09/22/2008: Can Political Memoirs be Literature? - Carol Rial
09/19/2008: Cooling Mother Earth - Robert Spiegelman
09/16/2008: Moyers on Democracy - Bill Moyers

Library Notes: June 2008

07/09/2008: Primary Previews: A Drama Seminar - Tessa LeNeve
06/01/2008: From the Head Librarian: Summer 2008
06/01/2008: Library Legacies
06/01/2008: New Electronic Resource: Project Muse
06/01/2008: Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery News
06/01/2008: Wireless Internet Access

Library Notes: April 2008

03/01/2008: A Visit with Irving Kahn
03/01/2008: From the Chairman of the Board: Spring 2008
03/01/2008: From the Head Librarian: Spring 2008
03/01/2008: Interlibrary Loan: Linking Libraries
03/01/2008: Rare Books News: Another Day, Another Treasure
03/01/2008: Rumor, Ghost - Jane Simon

Library Events: March 2008

05/19/2008: New Yorkers and the New Yorker - Mark Singer & Nick Paumgarten
05/15/2008: The Things That Matter To Us - Patricia Reilly Giff
05/14/2008: New York City Book Awards 2007
05/14/2008: NYC Book Awards 2007
05/13/2008: Einstein: His Life And Universe - Walter Isaacson
05/08/2008: Young Writers Awards 2008 Ceremony
05/01/2008: Scottsboro - Ellen Feldman
04/24/2008: Marie-Thèrése: Child Of Terror - Susan Nagel
04/19/2008: Washington Irving - Brian Jay Jones
04/17/2008: Henry, The Dog With No Tail - Jules & Kate Feiffer
04/16/2008: Annual Meeting 2008
04/15/2008: The Book Is Dead! Long Live The Book!
04/02/2008: Technology and Book Workshops: Spring 2008
03/26/2008: Primary Previews - Tessa LeNeve and Bill Connington
03/14/2008: Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery Dedication and Reception

Library Notes: January 2008

03/13/2008: The Magic School Bus and Beyond - Bruce Degen
03/11/2008: The Man Who Laughs - The Octuor de France
02/25/2008: Project Cicero Book Collection
02/21/2008: Women and the Men Who Love Them - Rob Ackerman
02/20/2008: The Border of Truth - Victoria Redel
02/19/2008: The Odyssey - Donald McDonough
02/12/2008: Television Tightrope - Ralph Baruch
02/08/2008: Genre-Crossing Authors - Carol Rial
02/07/2008: Becoming a Writer - Elizabeth Winthrop
01/30/2008: America's Membership Libraries - Richard Wendorf
01/22/2008: My Travels with Clara - Mary Tavener Holmes
01/14/2008: Young Writers Awards 2008 Competition Open
01/01/2008: From the Chairman of the Board: Winter 2008
01/01/2008: From the Head Librarian: Winter 2008

Library Notes: November 2007

12/15/2007: The Library Moves Uptown
12/13/2007: Helen Clay Frick - Martha Frick Symington Sanger
12/04/2007: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu - Laurence Bergreen
11/14/2007: The Wayward Muse - Elizabeth Hickey
11/12/2007: Gustave Flaubert and George Sand - Kathleen Chalfant & Harris Yulin
11/09/2007: The Book: Past, Present and Future - Nicolas Barker
11/08/2007: Broken Pencils, Dried-Up Paint - Brett Helquist
11/01/2007: Books to Bind? - George Muñoz
11/01/2007: From the Chairman of the Board: Winter 2007
11/01/2007: From the Head Librarian: Winter 2007
11/01/2007: Harriet Shapiro is the New Exhibitions Coordinator
11/01/2007: Publication Announcement: America's Membership Libraries
11/01/2007: Remembering Brooke Astor

Library Notes: September 2007

11/01/2007: The Library Mouse - Daniel Kirk
10/25/2007: New York's Left Bank - Virginia Budny
10/20/2007: Theater on Your Toes - Ingrid Abrams
10/12/2007: Going Global: New Writing from Three Continents - Carol Rial
10/11/2007: American Food Writing - Molly O'Neill
10/03/2007: The Odyssey - Donald McDonough
10/02/2007: Technology and Library Workshops: Fall 2007
09/26/2007: The Law of Dreams - Peter Behrens
09/01/2007: From the Chairman of the Board: Fall 2007
09/01/2007: From the Head Librarian: Fall 2007
09/01/2007: Introducing the Herman Melville Supporters
09/01/2007: NYSL at ALA
09/01/2007: Rare Books News
09/01/2007: What Are You Thinking?
09/01/2007: Where are November and December Events?

Library Notes: June 2007

07/01/2007: New Zip Code
06/01/2007: A Generous Gift
06/01/2007: From the Chairman of the Board: Summer 2007
06/01/2007: From the Head Librarian: Summer 2007
06/01/2007: New Online Resources
06/01/2007: Rare Books News
06/01/2007: Readers Connecting
06/01/2007: The Library and Its History - Christopher Gray
06/01/2007: Website: Main Page vs. Library Catalog
05/10/2007: Young Writers Awards 2007 Follow-Up
05/03/2007: New York City Book Awards 2006 Ceremony

Library Events: May 1007

05/16/2007: Mayflower - Nathaniel Philbrick
05/13/2007: The Songs of World War I - Lasser, Holliday & Campos
04/09/2007: Exhibition from the Rare Collection

Library Notes: March 2007

05/10/2007: Young Writers Awards 2007 Ceremony
05/03/2007: New York City Book Awards 2006 - Mike Wallace
05/03/2007: Technology Workshops: Spring 2007
05/01/2007: History - It Can't Happen Without You - Buckley &Leacock
04/25/2007: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
04/17/2007: The Spoken Word - Marie Ponsot
04/09/2007: Bringing Home the Exotic: Europeans as Foreigners 1670-1840
03/28/2007: Watanabe Kazan: Painter and Patriot of Japan - Donald Keene
03/22/2007: American Family Drama - Rob Ackerman
03/14/2007: The Iliad - Donald McDonough
03/01/2007: Anniversary Commemorative Book Still Available
03/01/2007: From the Chairman of the Board: Spring 2007
03/01/2007: From the Head Librarian: Spring 2007
03/01/2007: Looking for a Magazine?
03/01/2007: New Circulation Department Structure

Library Notes: January 2007

03/15/2007: The Hello, Goodbye Window - Chris Raschka
03/05/2007: An Ordinary Man - Paul Rusesabagina
03/01/2007: Don Quixote - Edith Grossman and George Guidall
02/28/2007: Project Cicero 2007: Book Collection at the Library
02/20/2007: The Lives of George Sand - Benita Eisler
02/15/2007: Counting on Grace - Elizabeth Winthrop
02/06/2007: Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
01/24/2007: Women Authors on the Family - Carol Rial
01/22/2007: Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire - Rafe Esquith
01/15/2007: Young Writers Awards 2007 Competition Open
01/01/2007: An Old Trustee Gains a New Look
01/01/2007: From the Chairman of the Board: Winter 2007
01/01/2007: From the Head Librarian: Winter 2007
01/01/2007: Library Now Accepting Credit Cards
01/01/2007: Member Marion Edel Donates an Elzevir Bible
01/01/2007: Remembering Rita Atterton

Library Notes: September 2006

12/17/2006: "May Your Days Be Merry and Bright" - Lasser, Holliday & Campos
11/29/2006: Melville: His World and Work - Andrew Delbanco
11/09/2006: From Librarian to Author - Johanna Hurwitz
10/26/2006: Book Discussion: Al Capone Does My Shirts - Carrie Silberman
10/25/2006: The World of H.C. Bunner - Linda Selman
10/18/2006: Technology Workshops: Fall 2006
10/12/2006: The Costume Copycat - Maryann Macdonald
10/05/2006: Illusion and Disillusion in America - Rob Ackerman
10/04/2006: The Iliad - Donald McDonough
09/26/2006: The Civil War Draft Riots - Barnet Schecter
09/01/2006: And Yet the Books - Czeslaw Milosz
09/01/2006: Book Sales at Library Events
09/01/2006: Books to Bind? - George Muñoz
09/01/2006: For Researchers, Bad News and Good News
09/01/2006: From the Chairman of the Board: Fall 2006
09/01/2006: From the Head Librarian: Fall 2006
09/01/2006: Interior Work All But Complete
09/01/2006: Winthrop Collection - Arevig Caprielian & Milica Pavlovic
09/01/2006: Two New Trustees

Library Notes: June 2006

06/01/2006: From the Interim Head Librarian: Summer 2006
06/01/2006: Looking for Bibliographic Resources?
06/01/2006: Renovation Update: Summer 2006
06/01/2006: Staff Announcement: Benjamin Ryan - Carrie Silberman
05/09/2006: Young Writers Awards 2006 Ceremony
05/03/2006: New York City Book Awards 2005 Ceremony
03/06/2006: Project Cicero 2006

Library Notes: March 2006

05/11/2006: Blending Words and Pictures - Lynne Barasch
05/11/2006: The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore - Peter Pennoyer & Anne Walker
05/10/2006: Against Depression - Peter D. Kramer
05/03/2006: New York City Book Awards 2005
05/02/2006: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her - Melanie Rehak
04/04/2006: Technology Workshops: Spring 2006
04/04/2006: William Maxwell: A Literary Life - Barbara Burkhardt
03/30/2006: Fiction of Conscience - Roxana Robinson
03/29/2006: Writings from Japanese and Chinese Americans - Carol Rial
03/23/2006: Zlata's Diary - Zlata Filipovic
03/01/2006: From the Interim Head Librarian: Spring 2006
03/01/2006: Library Author Honored - Chris Raschka
03/01/2006: Remembering Wendy Wasserstein
03/01/2006: Renovation Update: Spring 2006
03/01/2006: The Library's Contribution to the "Mozart Year"
03/01/2006: Young Writers Awards 2006 Competition Open

Library Notes: January 2006

04/10/2006: The Fourth Annual Young Writers Awards
03/15/2006: The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Robert A. Caro
03/07/2006: Bookbinding Workshop - George Muñoz
03/01/2006: Project Cicero 2006
02/22/2006: The Last of Mrs. Lincoln - T.E.S.T. Theater Company
02/07/2006: The Inner Life of Marie Curie - Barbara Goldsmith
02/07/2006: Young Writers Workshop: Playwriting - Rob Ackerman
02/03/2006: All in the Family - Jules & Kate Feiffer
01/25/2006: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre - Hazel Rowley
01/09/2006: Staff Change
01/01/2006: An Historic Bequest - Joseph Chamberlain Furnas
01/01/2006: Books to Bind? - George Muñoz
01/01/2006: New Staff Members - Keren Fleshler, Thomas Meaney & George Munoz
01/01/2006: Renovation Update: Winter 2006
01/01/2006: Times Literary Supplement

Library Notes: October 2005

12/07/2005: The Extra Man and Wake Up, Sir! - Jonathan Ames
11/17/2005: Beethoven: The Universal Composer - Edmund Morris
11/10/2005: Imagination to the Page - Brian Selznick
10/20/2005: Walt Whitman: Voice of America - David S. Reynolds
10/19/2005: Them: A Memoir of Parents - Francine du Plessix Gray
10/06/2005: Technology Workshops: Fall 2005
09/29/2005: Nine Short Stories - Carol Rial
09/01/2005: From the Head Librarian: Fall 2005

Library Notes: June 2005

06/01/2005: From the Head Librarian: Summer 2005
06/01/2005: New Board Officers
05/17/2005: In Memorandum: Margaret Mather Byard
05/04/2005: New York City Book Awards 2004 Ceremony

Library Notes: April 2005

05/18/2005: Anne Frank in America - Ellen Feldman
05/12/2005: Melanie in Manhattan - Carol Weston
05/10/2005: New Poems - John Hollander
05/04/2005: New York City Book Awards 2004
04/27/2005: The Island at the Center of the World - Russell Shorto
04/13/2005: Technology Workshops: Spring 2005
04/12/2005: Mistress of the Elgin Marbles - Susan Nagel
04/11/2005: Young Writers Awards 2005 Competition Still Open
04/06/2005: Pat the Bunny Turns Sixty - Edith Kunhardt Davis
03/29/2005: Happily Ever After? - Nancy Newman
03/24/2005: Books of Three Continents - Carol Rial
03/12/2005: New Project Cicero Website
03/01/2005: Books in Print
03/01/2005: From the Head Librarian: Spring 2005

Library Notes: January 2005

03/09/2005: Picture This - Mo Willems
03/08/2005: Lincoln and Whitman - Daniel Mark Epstein
03/02/2005: Maximum City - Suketu Mehta
02/28/2005: Project Cicero 2005
02/17/2005: Young Writers' Workshop: Poetry - Ellen Hagan
02/10/2005: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty - Caroline Alexander
02/06/2005: I am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
02/03/2005: The Teacher's Funeral and Other Stories - Richard Peck
01/23/2005: Open House Honoring Mark Piel
01/20/2005: Life Studies: Stories - Susan Vreeland
01/01/2005: 17th Head Librarian - Charles Cronin
01/01/2005: Young Writers Awards 2005

Library Notes: October 2004

12/16/2004: The Inner Voice: Notes From a Life Onstage - Renée Fleming
12/01/2004: Not About Heroes - Aurea
11/18/2004: Alexandra David-Néel - Barbara Foster
11/17/2004: Young Writers' Workshop: Photojournalism - Roberta Fineberg
11/16/2004: Becoming a Writer - Elizabeth Winthrop
11/11/2004: Because of Winn-Dixie & Olive's Ocean - Carrie Silberman
11/11/2004: Tours of the Library Building - Christopher Gray
11/10/2004: George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker - Robert Gottlieb
11/09/2004: Technology Workshops: Fall 2004
10/19/2004: The Invisible Century - Richard Panek
10/14/2004: Upstairs, Downstairs and In the Middle - Carol Rial
09/01/2004: Renovation Update: Fall 2004
09/01/2004: Retrospective Conversion of Rare Books
07/08/2004: Remembering Paula Danziger

Library Notes: May 2004

06/03/2004: New York City: The Home Front - Mike Wallace
05/27/2004: Rhe Shape of Auden's Biography - Edward Mendelson
05/01/2004: New York City Book Awards 2003 Ceremony
05/01/2004: New York Society Library: 250 Years Now Available
05/01/2004: Project Cicero 2004
05/01/2004: Renovation Update: Spring 2004
04/27/2004: Young Writers Awards 2004
04/17/2004: 250th Anniversary Celebration

Library Notes: March 2004

05/18/2004: Subjects and Predicates - Karl Kirchwey
05/13/2004: Great Books for Boys: Dear Mr. Henshaw - Carrie Silberman
05/05/2004: A Festival of Library Songwriters - Sara Holliday
05/04/2004: Yours, Anne: The Life of Anne Frank - Lois Metzger
04/22/2004: Young Writers' Workshop: Poetry - Dave Johnson
04/18/2004: 250th Anniversary Events
04/15/2004: The World of Lorenzo da Ponte - Nimet Habachy
04/07/2004: Sappho's Leap - Erica Jong
03/29/2004: An Evening with Jonathan Franzen - Jonathan Franzen
03/24/2004: The Father and Mother of American Poetry - Galway Kinnell
03/17/2004: Glimpses of New York - Carol Rial
03/17/2004: Technology Workshops: Spring 2004
03/16/2004: Paradise Lost - Donald McDonough
03/01/2004: Anniversary Commemorative Book
03/01/2004: New York City Book Awards 2003

Library Notes: January 2004

03/10/2004: The Peloponnesian War - Donald Kagan
03/02/2004: Young Writers Workshop: Playwriting - Rob Ackerman
02/19/2004: Edith Wharton, Italian Style - Eleanor Dwight
02/10/2004: Imagining a Biography of Odysseus - Charles Rowan Beye
02/06/2004: Say Cheese - Jon Scieszka
02/03/2004: Dancer - Colum McCann
02/03/2004: Young Writers' Workshop: Fiction Writing - Rachel Cohn
01/29/2004: Book Discussion - Carrie Silberman & Randi Levy
01/22/2004: New York City, An Intellectual Capital - Anthony Gronowicz
01/13/2004: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling - Ross King
01/01/2004: Mark Piel Announces Intention to Retire
01/01/2004: Project Cicero 2004
01/01/2004: The New System - Ingrid Richter
01/01/2004: Young Writers Awards 2004

Library Notes: December 2003

Library Notes: September 2003

12/09/2003: First Great Triumph - Warren Zimmermann
12/03/2003: What Every Person Should Know About War - Chris Hedges
11/13/2003: The Things That Matter To Us - Patricia Reilly Giff
11/11/2003: The Music of Chopin's Last Days - Benita Eisler
11/04/2003: Keeping a Journal - Carol Weston
10/30/2003: The Irrepressible Pig - Michael Cart
10/23/2003: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life - Walter Isaacson
10/16/2003: John C. Frémont, the Pathfinder - Tom Chaffin
10/09/2003: Memory and Memoir - Carol Rial
10/09/2003: Robert Stuart - Laton McCartney
10/07/2003: Book Discussions - Carrie Silberman
10/02/2003: Lewis and Clark - Robert McCracken Peck
09/30/2003: Intimate Strangers in Contemporary Fiction - Nancy Newman
09/25/2003: Young Writers' Workshop: Poetry - Dave Johnson
09/21/2003: New York is Book Country 2003
09/01/2003: Exhibition: Sharpe & Sharaff-Sze

Library Notes: June 2003

06/17/2003: Harry Potter Rides Again
06/10/2003: New York Streetscapes Stories - Christopher Gray
06/01/2003: New York City Book Awards 2002 Ceremony
06/01/2003: Project Cicero 2003
06/01/2003: Who Are Those People in the Stairwells?
06/01/2003: Young Writers Awards 2003

Library Notes: March 2003

05/20/2003: Horace: The Odes - J. D. McClatchy
05/08/2003: The Thief Lord - Carrie Silberman
05/07/2003: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov - Cathy Popkin
05/02/2003: Books Alive - Chris Raschka
05/01/2003: New York City Book Awards 2002
04/09/2003: Lucy: A Novel - Ellen Feldman
04/02/2003: Glimpses of New York's History - Cantwell and Wall
03/27/2003: What to Make of a Life? - Angeline Goreau
03/01/2003: A Piano for the Library?
03/01/2003: On Turning 250
03/01/2003: Oxford Reference Online
03/01/2003: Policy on Cellular Phones
03/01/2003: Preparing for the New System
03/01/2003: Young Writers Awards 2003 Ceremony

Library Notes: January 2003

03/18/2003: Biography, Art and Craft - Donald Spoto
03/04/2003: Searching for Titles - Alan Furst
02/28/2003: Jules Feiffer Draws His Favorite Stories - Jules Feiffer
02/25/2003: The Darkness and the Light - Anthony Hecht
02/13/2003: Understood Betsy & Bat 6 - Carrie Silberman
02/12/2003: Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia - Ahmed Rashid
01/30/2003: Secrets and Lies in Fiction - Nancy Newman
01/28/2003: Girltalk: An Evening - Carol Weston
01/23/2003: The Battle for New York - Barnet Schecter
01/21/2003: NYSL Computer Users Group
01/01/2003: Access to Archives and Articles
01/01/2003: Capturing the State of the Library
01/01/2003: Connect to the Internet through your Laptop
01/01/2003: New Member Relations Committee
01/01/2003: New Things at www.nysoclib.org
01/01/2003: Project Cicero 2003
01/01/2003: Young Writers Awards 2003 Deadline

Library Notes: September 2002

12/04/2002: American Bloomsbury - Susan Cheever
11/21/2002: Writing and Loving It - Paula Danziger
11/07/2002: No Certain Rest - Jim Lehrer
10/30/2002: The Cask of Amontillado - Norman George
10/29/2002: The Cat in the Library - Robert D. Richardson Jr.
10/22/2002: Highlights from Harry Potter - Jim Dale
10/17/2002: Because of Winn-Dixie & Bloomability - Carrie Silberman
10/09/2002: Fiction Imitating Life - Jill Davis
10/05/2002: Technology Workshops: Fall 2002
10/03/2002: Classics of the Bard - Donald McDonough
09/29/2002: New York is Book Country 2002
09/25/2002: The Ethnic History of New York City - Anthony Gronowicz
09/22/2002: Walking Tour: Brooklyn Heights - Hope Cooke
09/01/2002: Exhibition: Malebranche & Klee

Library Notes: June 2002

06/01/2002: Beware the Library Gods!
06/01/2002: In Memory of Walter Lord (1917-2002)
06/01/2002: New York City Book Awards 2001 Ceremony
06/01/2002: President Bush Honors Library Author - Richard Peck
06/01/2002: Project Cicero 2002

Library Notes: March 2002

05/21/2002: Family Book Discussion: The View from Saturday
05/15/2002: Adventures of a New York City Bird Watcher - Paul Kerlinger
05/09/2002: All For Love - Ved Mehta and Linn Cary Mehta
05/01/2002: New York City Book Awards 2001
04/16/2002: April is Poetry Month - Dave Johnson
04/11/2002: Technology Workshops: Spring 2002
04/10/2002: Dante - R.W.B. Lewis
04/06/2002: The Library Top to Bottom - Christopher Gray
04/02/2002: Keys to Edgar Allan Poe - Daniel Hoffman
03/28/2002: Rediscovering the Short Story - Meg Wolitzer
03/21/2002: The Art of the Biography - Brenda Wineapple

Library Notes: January 2002

02/27/2002: How Scientists Learned in the Twentieth Century - Gerard Piel
02/07/2002: Storytelling Your History - Susan Buckley and Elspeth Leacock
02/06/2002: Depression, Too, is a Thing with Feathers - Andrew Solomon
01/26/2002: Volunteers Needed for a Catalog Focus Group - Paul Burley
01/23/2002: H.M.S. Pinafore: Things Are Seldom What They Seem - Gayden Wren
01/01/2002: Get News by E-Mail
01/01/2002: New Library Cataloger - Paul Burley
01/01/2002: Project Cicero 2002

Library Events: November 2001

12/05/2001: Landscape Design - Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
12/04/2001: Third Parties in American History - Anthony Gronowicz

Library Notes: September 2001

11/20/2001: Herman Melville - Andrew Delbanco
11/08/2001: Becoming a Writer - Elizabeth Winthrop
10/25/2001: The Art of Biography - Brenda Wineapple
10/17/2001: Shiksa Goddess - Wendy Wasserstein
10/17/2001: The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
10/16/2001: Smart Surfing for Kids - Carrie Silberman
10/11/2001: Libraries of the Ancient World - Lionel Casson
10/06/2001: 79th Street Tour - Christopher Gray
09/25/2001: Modern Fiction - Ellen Feldman
09/23/2001: New York is Book Country 2001
09/12/2001: Technology Workshops: Fall 2001
09/01/2001: Books from the Special Collections
09/01/2001: Goodbye Susan - Susan O'Brien
09/01/2001: Hello Steven - Steven McGuirl

Library Notes: April 2001

05/24/2001: A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck
05/17/2001: What is the Future of Digital Publishing? - Jason Epstein
05/02/2001: New York City Book Awards 2000 Ceremony
04/24/2001: Book Discussion: Because of Winn-Dixie - Carrie Silberman
04/19/2001: April is Poetry Month
04/10/2001: Fire at the Core of the World - Robert D. Richardson Jr.
04/07/2001: Second Chance for "The NYSL Top to Bottom" - Christopher Gray
04/01/2001: New Exhibition from our Special Collections
04/01/2001: Teachers and Students Receive Books from Project Cicero
04/01/2001: The Library Embraces New Technology

Library Notes: January 2001

03/27/2001: Technology Workshops: Spring 2001
03/20/2001: Scarlet Letters and White Lies - Brenda Wineapple
03/06/2001: The Synthetic Sublime - Cynthia Ozick
02/21/2001: Contemporary Fiction - Meg Wolitzer
02/20/2001: The Constitution and the Country - Anthony Gronowicz
02/06/2001: A Life in the Twentieth Century - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
01/27/2001: The NYSL Top to Bottom - Christopher Gray
01/01/2001: New Card Catalog Relocates
01/01/2001: New Librarian and Junior Council - Allison Koslow
01/01/2001: Project Cicero Brings Books to Kids
01/01/2001: Question for the Membership
01/01/2001: What Are You Thinking?

Library Notes: September 2000

12/05/2000: Tournament of Shadows - Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac
11/15/2000: The Aeneid: Interpretation and Meaning - Michael C.J. Putnam
10/24/2000: Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life - Susan Hertog
10/24/2000: Technology Workshops: Fall 2000
10/18/2000: New Voices: Asian-American Novelists - Hope Cooke
10/17/2000: Current Fiction - Ellen Feldman
10/01/2000: Walt Whitman's Brooklyn - Hope Cooke
09/24/2000: New York is Book Country 2000
09/01/2000: Children's Librarian - Carrie Silberman
09/01/2000: Events Coordinator - Sara Holliday

Library Notes: April 2000

05/23/2000: New York City Readers - Donald Oresman
05/07/2000: Walking Tour: Walt Whitman's New York - Hope Cooke
04/19/2000: Technology Workshops: Spring 2000
04/01/2000: A Tribute to Sylvia Hilton - Rita Atterton
04/01/2000: Replacement Books?
04/01/2000: Twenty Year Anniversary - Doris Glick

Library Notes: January 2000

04/05/2000: Current Biography - Stacy Schiff
03/06/2000: Lord Byron: The Poet as an Autobiographer - Benita Eisler
02/25/2000: Greene on Capri - Shirley Hazzard
02/08/2000: Current Fiction - Ellen Feldman
01/29/2000: Old and New Tales - Eleni Constantelos
01/25/2000: A Celebration of New York Writing - Phillip Lopate
01/01/2000: New York City Book Awards 1999

Library Notes: September 1999

10/27/1999: The Odyssey - Charles Rowan Beye
10/19/1999: Poetry of the Bible - James Kugel
10/16/1999: Twice Upon a Tale - Eleni Constantelos
10/06/1999: Current Biography - Hope Cooke
10/05/1999: Current Fiction - Ellen Feldman
09/26/1999: New York is Book Country 1999
09/16/1999: The American Century - Harold Evans
09/01/1999: A Note on Library Notes - Jenny Lawrence
09/01/1999: A Tribute to Helen Ruskell - Rita Atterton
09/01/1999: Extended Library Hours on Monday

Library Notes: June 1999

06/01/1999: New York City Book Awards 1998
06/01/1999: NYSL's Home Page - Ingrid Richter
06/01/1999: Poetrypalooza: A Festival of Poems

Library Notes: January 1999

04/14/1999: Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame - Benita Eisler
02/18/1999: Alexander Pushkin: Father of Russian Literature - Ellen Chances
02/18/1999: Reading Group in Biography - Hope Cooke
02/16/1999: Reading Group in Fiction - Ellen Feldman
02/10/1999: Broadway's Broadway - Deborah Grace Winer
01/23/1999: Magical Stories From Around the World - Eleni Constantelos
01/01/1999: Children's Librarian - Kathleen O'Donnell
01/01/1999: Computer Specialist - Ingrid Richter
01/01/1999: Electronic Doings in the Library - Steven Baumholtz
01/01/1999: Memorial Gift for Mark Hampton
01/01/1999: Requests for a Podium
01/01/1999: The John S. & Catherine Rogers House

Library Notes: September 1998

12/08/1998: Literary New York - Mike Wallace
12/02/1998: The Question of Poetry - J. D. McClatchy
11/11/1998: Oona O'Neill Chaplin: Living in the Shadow - Jane Scovell
10/20/1998: Inventing a Life - Amanda Vaill
09/30/1998: Paradise Lost - John Milton's Epic Tradition - Abbe Blum
09/26/1998: Around the World with Words - Eleni Constantelos
09/12/1998: A James Joyce Evening - The Honorable David Norris
09/01/1998: Children's Library and Catalog Room Renovations
09/01/1998: Helping the Visitors Committee
09/01/1998: Staff Changes - Jane Goldstein
09/01/1998: Staff Changes - Sharon Brown

Library Notes: July 1998

10/6/1998: Reading Group: Current Fiction - Ellen Feldman
07/01/1998: Going On-line - Mark Piel
07/01/1998: Going to Berlin? - Linda Fritzinger
07/01/1998: Historians Wanted
07/01/1998: Letter to the Editor - Margaret Maxwell
07/01/1998: New Head of the Visitors' Committee - Lucienne Bloch
07/01/1998: New York City Book Awards 1997
07/01/1998: The Library's Ratzen Plan - Robert Augustyn
07/01/1998: Thirsty?

Library Notes: April 1998

05/12/1998: Collecting Readers - Donald Oresman
05/06/1998: Keats: The Making of a Poet - Aileen Ward
04/28/1998: Mystery Writers of America - Donald Westlake
04/01/1998: Reflections on Twenty Years at the Library - Mark Piel

Library Notes: January 1998

04/28/1998: An Aura of Mystery - Donald Westlake
04/01/1998: New York Music in the City's Oldest Library - Trio Bell' Arte
02/26/1998: Lyric Poetry and Shakespeare's Sonnets - Helen Vendler
02/03/1998: Other Powers - Barbara Goldsmith
01/31/1998: Winter Tales - Eleni Constantelos
01/01/1998: Electronic Access to the Library's Collection
01/01/1998: In Memoriam - Brendan Gill (1914-1997)
01/01/1998: New Head of Technical Services - Steven Baumholtz

Library Notes: October 1997

12/03/1997: The Fiction of Henry James - R. W. B. Lewis
11/18/1997: Robert Moses and the Making of New York - Robert Caro
11/10/1997: The Party - Kathleen Chalfant
11/04/1997: Library & Art Museum Excursion - Princeton University
10/25/1997: America's Stories - Eleni Constantelos
10/01/1997: A Library Tale - Alice Gore King

Library Notes: June 1997

06/25/1997: Brooklyn! An Illustrated History - Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
06/01/1997: Gifts in Memory of Anton Myrer - Barbara Stanton
06/01/1997: James Joyce's Dublin - Marylin Bender Altschul
06/01/1997: Library Staff Member wins Academy Award - Leonard Lionnet
06/01/1997: Library Tales - Margaret Mather Byard
06/01/1997: Visitors Committee

Library Notes: March 1997

05/14/1997: Greek Tragic Drama - Charles Rowan Beye
05/06/1997: An Evening with George Templeton Strong - George Plimpton
03/01/1997: Creative Connections - Jamie Winnick
03/01/1997: New York's "Other" Library - Christopher Hawtree
03/01/1997: W. H. Auden - At Work in the Library

Library Notes: January 1997

01/22/1997: The Iliad - Caroline Alexander & Simon Prebble
01/01/1997: Shelf Talk - Heidi Hass
01/11/1997: Library on TV - Mark Piel
01/01/1997: The Dictionary of Art Donated - Barbara & Walter Wriston
03/04/1997: Houdini Unmasked - Kenneth Silverman
04/01/1997: A Disposition to be Rich - Geoffrey C. Ward
01/01/1997: Wallet Note - Barbara Stern
01/01/1997: Books by NYSL Members - Library Exhibition
01/25/1997: Tales from Around the World - Eleni Constantelos

Library Notes: September 1996

10/30/1996: Proust's In Search of Lost Time - John W. Kneller
10/15/1996: The Missions of Henry R. Luce - Alan Brinkley
09/01/1996: The City's Oldest Library - Exhibition
11/02/1996: New York Stories - Jamie Winnick
11/21/1996: Excursion: Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Columbia University
09/01/1996: Wallet Note - Barbara Stanton
09/01/1996: Books on Wheels - Nancy McCartney
09/01/1996: Letter to the Editor - Virginia Stern

Library Notes: June 1996

06/01/1996: First New York City Book Awards - Kenneth Jackson
06/01/1996: Conversations on Great Books - John Anthony Mazzeo & Jacques Barzun
06/01/1996: The Wallet - Barbara H. Stanton
06/01/1996: Books on Wheels - Nancy McCartney
06/01/1996: The Winthrop Collection - Margaret M. Byard

Library Notes: January 1996

02/28/1996: Dante's Divine Comedy - Conversations on Great Books
04/27/1996: Boswell Redux - Henry S. F. Cooper
01/01/1996: To Library Members - William J. Dean
03/20/1996: Napoleon of Finance - Jean Strouse
01/27/1996: Tales to Treasure - Nadine Grisar
01/01/1996: Shelf Talk: Membership Libraries - Mark Piel
01/01/1996: The Wallet - Barbara H. Stanton

Library Notes: June 1995

06/01/1995: From a Twenty-Seven Year Perspective - Jacques Barzun
06/01/1995: The Wallet - Barbara H. Stanton
06/01/1995: To Library Members - William J. Dean
06/01/1995: Appeal to Library Members
06/01/1995: Letter to the Library - Gabriel Austin
06/01/1995: What is Retrospective Conversion? - Heidi Haas
06/01/1995: The Annual Meeting
06/01/1995: Report from the Visitors - Jules Cohn

Library Notes: February 1995

02/01/1995: An Evening with Sam Boswell - Sam Waterston
02/01/1995: Biography Lecture Series - Judith Thurman
02/01/1995: The Art of Biography for Young People - Jamie Winnick,
02/01/1995: To Library Members - William J. Dean
02/01/1995: The Wallet - Barbara H. Stanton
02/01/1995: Shelf Talk - Mark Piel
02/01/1995: Letters to the Library - James Raven

Library Notes: September 1994

09/01/1994: Discovery in the Stacks - William J. Dean
09/01/1994: The Art of Biography Lecture Series - Geoffrey C. Ward
10/17/1994: NYSL Excursion for Bibliophiles
11/09/1994: The Art of Biography - Geoffrey Ward
09/01/1994: In Memoriam: Phyllis Goodhart Gordan - Henry S. F. Cooper
09/01/1994: The Wallet - Barbara H. Stanton
09/01/1994: Shelf Talk - Mark Piel
09/01/1994: Letters to the Library - James Munves

Library Notes: June 1994

06/01/1994: To Library Members - William J. Dean
06/01/1994: The Spencer Byard Fund - Henry S. F. Cooper
06/01/1994: The Wallet - Barbara H. Stanton
06/01/1994: The Library's First Bookplate (1758)
06/01/1994: Shelf Talk - Mark Piel
06/01/1994: Programs
06/01/1994: Awards - Walter Lord & Janet Howard
06/01/1994: New Trustees

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