Webcasts, "how to" videos, audio clips, and much more...
View webcasts (a combination of audio and video presentations) of past library events and speakers, watch informative "how-to" business seminars, listen to what teens have to say, and take the opportunity to view selected clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History project.
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ARCHIVE FEVER:
Okwui Enwezor, Christian Boltanski, Luc Sante, Lorna Simpson, George Lewis & Paul Holdengräber
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PICO IYER
in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
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AGAINST THE MACHINE: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
LEE SIEGEL
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AN INNOCENT MAN IN GUANTANAMO: Five Years of My Life Murat Kurnaz
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NICHOLSON BAKER in conversation with SIMON WINCHESTER Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
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A JAMES BALDWIN Tribute COLM TÓIBÍN with JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN, MANTHIA DIAWARA, FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN
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EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn Fritz Haeg, Peter Sellars, Dolores Hayden, Frederick Kaufman, Shamim Momin & Paul Holdengräber
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Conservators Preview Club with Sean Wilentz
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SAMANTHA POWER in conversation with AZAR NAFISI:
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello & the Fight to Save the World
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KRISTA TIPPETT & STUART BROWN in conversation with Paul Holdengräber: FOR PLAY
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Opening Night! JOHN RICHARDSON in conversation with ROBERT HUGHES: The Paradox of Picasso and The Role of the Biographer
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Peter Martins In Conversation with Pia Catton on New York City Ballet's Romeo and Juliet
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NICHOLAS KRISTOF: Darfur The First Genocide of the 21st Century
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CEES NOOTEBOOM in conversation with Paul Holdengräber:Lost Paradise
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PIERRE BAYARD & UMBERTO ECO with Paul Holdengraber:How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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Graphic Modernism Lecture Series
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UMBERTO ECO in conversation with Paul Holdengräber: On Ugliness, Hot Wars & Media Populism
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CARYL PHILLIPS in conversation with IAN BURUMA:Foreigners, Race, Class & Antisemitism
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PÉTER NÁDAS in conversation with Paul Holdengräber:Fire and Knowledge
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Meanings of Modernity in Central Europe
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THERE YOU GO AGAIN: Orwell Comes to America Part I PROPAGANDA THEN AND NOW:WHAT ORWELL DID AND DIDN’T KNOW
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THERE YOU GO AGAIN: Orwell Comes to America Part II DECEIVING IMAGES:THE SCIENCE OF MANIPULATION
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THERE YOU GO AGAIN: Orwell Comes to America Part III SOLUTIONS:THE FUTURE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
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BLIND SPOT: Collapsing Images Part I A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JACK PIERSON & JERRY SCHATZBERG
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BLIND SPOT: Collapsing Images Part II MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY
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BLIND SPOT: Collapsing Images Part III TRUTH AND AUTHENTICITY IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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The Katharine Hepburn Papers. Curator Bob Taylor talks about the timeless icon.
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NEWT GINGRICH in conversation with JEFFREY SACHS:A Contract with the Earth
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n+1 MAGAZINE: Fright Night, On the Politics of Fear Benjamin Kunkel, Meghan Falvey, Alex Gourevitch, Mark Greif & Chad Harbach
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MAIRA KALMAN in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY in conversation with Keith Gessen
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OUT OF FASHION: THE ABSENCE OF COLOR
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THE MOTH: Stories about Loss Melissa Bank, Bliss Broyard, Ophira Eisenberg, Jeffrey Rudell & Josh Swiller
Paul Holdengräber, host
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JAMES GEARY Juggles Aphorisms
Flash Rosenberg performs Quote Repair
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KEN BURNS in conversation with Robert Stone: The War
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NAOMI KLEIN in conversation with Roger D. Hodge:
The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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ORHAN PAMUK
in conversation with
Paul Holdengräber
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MIRANDA JULY
& Friends: David Byrne & Becky Stark
No One Belongs Here More Than You
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS and AL SHARPTON:
A Debate
God Is Not Great
1 hr 29 min
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ADAM PHILLIPS
in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
SIDE EFFECTS: What Falls out of your Pockets once you Start to Speak
1 hr 41 min
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VOYAGE & VOYEUR: Travel and Travel Writing
PEN WORLD VOICES: The New York Festival of International Literature
1 hr 16 min
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SEX & DANGER
PEN WORLD VOICES: The New York Festival of International Literature
1 hr 22 min
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JULIA ALVAREZ:
Saving the World
1 hr 31 min
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JAN MORRIS, Travel Writer Extraordinaire,
in conversation with Paul Holdengräber:
Around the World in 50 Years
1 hr 39 min
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Leslie BENNETTS & Elissa SCHAPPELL
debate
"The Feminine Mistake"
1 hr 35 min
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A Tribute to
PRIMO LEVI
1 hr 46 min
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REBECCA MEAD in conversation with
Henry Alford:
The Selling of the American Wedding
1 hr 03 min
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"Grow Your Child's Brain with Songs and Games"
1 hr 17 min
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ANDRÉ ACIMAN & COLM TÓIBÍN:
Landscapes of Eros
and Loss
1 hr 01 min
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WERNER HERZOG
in conversation with Paul Holdengräber:
Was the 20th Century a Mistake?
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ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB in conversation with R. CRUMB:
Need More Love
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A Master Class with Barbara Cook
2 hr 9 min
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DANIEL MENDELSOHN: From Roman Games to Reality TV--Mass Entertainment & Imperial Politics
1 hr 19 min
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THOMAS CAHILL in conversation with MARGARET ATWOOD: Thinking Medievally
1 hr 11 min
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN RECONSIDERED: A Conversation with HENRY LOUIS GATES & MARGO JEFFERSON
1 hr 16 min
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THE WORLD IN 2050:
China the Superpower?
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The CHANGING FACE OF GLOBAL FINANCE:
Can America's Capital Markets Compete?
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BEHIND THE SCENES WITH PBS:
The Emotional Animal
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GLUTTONY
MARIO BATALI, DAN BARBER, BARBARA KAFKA & CORBY KUMMER
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THE TROUBLE WITH DIVERSITY: An Argument between WALTER BENN MICHAELS & KATHA POLLITT. SCOTT STOSSEL Moderates
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LUST
ESTHER PEREL, LAURA KIPNIS, and PAUL HOLDENGRÄBER, instigator
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CREATIVE TIME & THE ATLANTIC: The Art of Disarmament: PAUL CHAN in conversation with KATHY KELLY
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A Double Celebration: The Atlantic & Sigmund Freud @ 150
GEORGE PROCHNIK, WAYNE KOESTENBAUM & SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
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SAVING THE WORLD: KATI MARTON in conversation with SAMANTHA POWER
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2006 Anne Carroll Moore Lecture presented by Patricia McKissack
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DAVID NASAW & VARTAN GREGORIAN: On Andrew Carnegie
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SPY Magazine: The Funny Years, the 20th Anniversary with GRAYDON CARTER, KURT ANDERSEN, GEORGE KALOGERAKIS & DAVID CARR
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The Library at Night: ALBERTO MANGUEL in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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ANDY BOROWITZ
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The Japanese Illustrated Book: Continuity and Change
4 hr 48 min
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Celebrating SPECTACLE: A conversation with DAVID ROCKWELL, Julie Taymor, Simon Doonan. John Hockenberry, Instigator
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ADAM GOPNIK in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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BILL MOYERS in conversation with Bill McKibben: Welcome to Doomsday
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ROBERT FRANK in conversation with Howard Norman: Beirut
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FRANK RICH in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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CHRIS ANDERSON in conversation with Lawrence Lessig
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SAM HARRIS in conversation with Oliver McTernan
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INVISIBLE SYMPOSIUM: European Dream Festival with CHARLES GRODIN, master of ceremonies
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E.O. WILSON in conversation with Ira Flatow
1 hr 22 min
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TIMOTHY GREENFIELD-SANDERS with André Leon Talley, Tim Gunn & Martha Nelson
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JOEL MEYEROWITZ: Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive
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KITCHEN SECRETS: BILL BUFORD with Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain
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JOHN UPDIKE in conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg
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A Tribute to OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
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REPORTING: DAVID REMNICK in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
DAVID REMNICK in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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DUONG THU HUONG in conversation with Robert Stone
PEN WORLD VOICES: The New York Festival of International Literature
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AYAAN HIRSI ALI in conversation with Philip Gourevitch
PEN WORLD VOICES: The New York Festival of International Literature
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ZADIE SMITH in conversation with Kurt Andersen
PEN WORLD VOICES: The New York Festival of International Literature
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AMARTYA SEN in conversation with Salman Rushdie
PEN WORLD VOICES: The New York Festival of International Literature
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THE LIMITS OF TOLERANCE? Multiculturalism Now
PEN WORLD VOICES: The New York Festival of International Literature
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REVOLUTION: A User's Manual
PEN WORLD VOICES: The New York Festival of International Literature
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Kathy Hirsch-Pasek: Einstein Never Used Flash Cards
1 hr 19 min
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ALFRED BRENDEL in conversation with Paul Holdengraber
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AMERICAN VERTIGO: Bernard-Henri Lévy and Tina Brown
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DESTROYING THE COLOR LINE: John Hope Franklin and President Bill Clinton
1 hr 23 min
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"Mahoosuc Notch"
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Free Speech Zone: Authors Read From Banned Books
1 hr 59 min
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The Subway at 100: General William Barclay Parsons and the Birth of the NYC Subway
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An Evening with Hal Prince
57 min
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Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
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"The SIBL Experience" Video
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Accounting & Bookkeeping Essentials
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Pricing your product or service: Break Even Analysis Primer
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How Certification Can Lead to Contracts for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses
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Credit Management & Credit Repair for Entrepreneurs
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Good Business Practices for Entrepreneurs
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A Quick Guide to Building a Successful Export Business
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How to Start a Fashion Line in Today's Market
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Legal Strategies for Small Businesses
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Market Research: Information Sources for Small Business
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Tips for Opening and Running a Restaurant in NYC
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Retail Essentials: How to Open and Run a Successful Retail Store
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Break the Rules and Win More Business
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SCORE: Essentials for Starting and Growing Your Own Business
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Turn it up! @ The Library. NYC Teens talk out loud
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RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI:
A Tribute
PEN WORLD VOICES: The New York Festival of International Literature
1 hr 44 min
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