New York Times: A Doll’s Magic, Free to Renew

A resourceful children's librarian at New York Public Library's Ottendorfer location began lending young girls American Girl doll, Kirsten Larson, for those who admired her at library but didn't have one of their own to play with.

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The New York Public Library Announces Historic Agreement to Display Original Copy of the Bill of Rights

MAY 22 – Members of the public in both New York City and Pennsylvania will soon get to see The New York Public Library’s original copy of the Bill of Rights, which will be exhibited for the first time in decades.

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We will soon be wrapping up Writing Through Memory: Memoir and Storytelling, a ten week workshop we have been hosting at the Kingsbridge Branch, brought to us through the Creative Aging program from Lifetime Arts. After a recent class, I caught up with one of the students,

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