• The Dorot Jewish Division is moving to a new location: room 111, on the first floor of the building, accessible through the Periodicals reading room, room 108.

Service in the Jewish Division's current space on the ground floor will continue through the end of June. The division will be closed from Tuesday, July 1 through Thursday, July 3 for the move. Since the Library as a whole will be closed for the holiday on Friday, July 4 and Saturday, July 5, Jewish Division reading room service will resume in the new location on Tuesday, July 8.

Jewish Division materials, other than rare and fragile items, may be requested in the Rose Main Reading Room while the Jewish Division is closed. Readers are encouraged to call ahead (212.930.0601 or freidus@nypl.org) to confirm availability and have requested items awaiting their arrival in room 315.

• The Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture
  The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Sixty Years On

Please note new date: Thursday September 18 at 7 p.m.
The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street

Leading land of Israel archaeologist Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and currently a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, provides an illustrated retrospective of 60 years of excavation and interpretation

Free program. Please register by e-mail: freidus@nypl.org, or phone: 212-930-0601.

The annual Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture is made possible by the Dorot Foundation as part of its support for the
Dorot Jewish Division of The New York Public Library.