Archive: People in the News

2009

Grand Concourse Branch Library Site Manager Gloria Hughes Receives 2009 Maher Stern Award for Excellence in Community Service

Deanna Lee Joins The New York Public Library as Vice President for Communications and Marketing

Dee Dee Bridgewater to Appear in The Duke Jazz Talks at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Shepard Fairey, Akeel Bilgrami & Hari Kunzru, Frances Fitzgerald, and Adam Gopnik Among Featured Speakers at The New York Public Library During Spring 2009 Season

George D. Mihaltses Joins The New York Public Library as Vice President for Government and Community Affairs

Bucky and John Pizzarelli Appear at The Duke Jazz Talks at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

2008

The New York Public Library's Arezoo Moseni Honored with The Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award

Jan Schmidt Appointed Curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library Honors Edward Albee, Ashley Bryan, Nora Ephron, and Salman Rushdie at Annual Library Lions Benefit

Ron Currie Jr. Wins The 2008 Young Lions Fiction Award for His Debut Novel God Is Dead

Todd M. Corbin Appointed Chief Investment Officer for The New York Public Library

Library Honors James B. Lee, Jr., Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Co-Chairman, The Investment Bank, at Annual Corporate Dinner--June 26, 2008

The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Names 2008-2009 Fellows

2007

The New York Public Library Honors John Hope Franklin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Martin Scorsese, and Tom Stoppard at Tenth Anniversary Library Lions Benefit, November 5, 2007

Chief Librarian of The New York Public Library's Bronx Library Center, receives the 2007 Maher Stern Award

Brooke Russell Astor, Honorary Chairman of The New York Public Library, Dies

Anthony Calnek Joins The New York Public Library As Vice President for Communications and Marketing

LPA Welcomes New Curators

LPA Names New Assistant Director

Mid-Manhattan Library and Donnell World Languages Collection Appointments Announced

NYPL featured in WNET documentary

 

2006

Center For Scholars and Writers Names new Fellows (05-16-07)

Annual Library Lions Benefit, November 13, 2006

Magician David Blaine Works his Magic for Summer Reading (06-06)

2005

Summer Reading celebrates local reading superstars (08-09-05)

Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces Class of 2005-2006 (05-05-06)

New Deputy Directors named to Branch Libraries Office (03-28-05)

2004

Catherine C. Marron named Chairman of the Board of Trustees (11-17-04)

Evelyn Frangakis appointed Chief Librarian for Preservation (08-05-04)

Paul Holdengräber appointed Director of Public Programs (06-15-04)

David Offensend appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer (06-09-04)

Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers names new Fellows (06-07-04)

Susan Kent appointed Director and Chief Executive of The Branch Libraries (05-24-04)

David S. Ferriero appointed Andrew W. Mellon Director and Chief Executive of The Research Libraries (04-26-04)


2003

In memoriam: Young Adult Coordinator Mary Jane Tacchi (09-04-03)

Jean Strouse appointed Director of Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (05-15-03)

Heike Kordish appointed Director of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library (04-03)


2001

Mary K. Conwell named Senior Vice President and Director of The Branch Libraries (07-18-01)

Norman Holman appointed Senior Vice President and Director of Capital Planning and Construction (07-18-01)

Betty Corwin and TOFT win special Tony Award (05-07-01)

Jane Fisher named Coordinator of Information Services (3-28-01)

Margaret Tice chosen Coordinator of Children's Services (3-28-01)


2000

Jacqueline Z. Davis appointed Executive Director of Performing Arts Library (06-22-00)

Hannah Nuba, pioneer in early childhood services, dies (12-05-00)

Betty Corwin, founder of NYPL's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, retires (9-14-00)

Jacqueline Z. Davis appointed to head Performing Arts Library (6-23-00)

Rodney Phillips Named Director of Humanities and Social Sciences Library (2-29-00)


1999

Professor Peter Gay, Director of the Center for Scholars and Writers, Wins Geschwister-Scholl-Prize (11-17-99)

Samuel C. Butler appointed NYPL Chairman (05-19-99)

H. George Fletcher appointed Brooke Russell Astor Director for Special Collections (3-3-99)


1997

Nancy Donner named Director for Communications and Marketing (7-31-97)

Catherine Carver Dunn named Senior Vice President for Development and Government Affairs (5-21-97)

Mary K. Conwell named Deputy Director of The Branch Libraries (2-18-97)

Norman Holman appointed Director of NYPL's Branch Libraries (8-6-96)

Kristin McDonough named Director of NYPL's Science, Industry and Business Library (8-6-96)

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