|
Calendars and Datebooks  The New York Public Library Student Planner 2007-2008You need your brain (this is a proven fact) for dealing with student life. By organizing the details surrounding your studies, The New York Public Library Student Planner leaves you with more brain space to devote to higher education. This powerful, feature-packed tool includes space to record daily class and work schedules (whether quarter or semester system, day or night); full-page monthly grids for long-term planning; space for addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail; lunar phases; weights and measures; inspiring, often comical quotations; and lists of Internet resources, recommended reference books, U.S. and Canadian holidays, and toll-free numbers and websites for travel and lodging concerns. $9.99 / Buy it from The Library Shop  A Calendar for the Jewish Year 5768 (2007-2008) This wall calendar showcases a selecton of illuminations from two delightful Hebrew manuscripts produced in Germany during the Middle Ages and now in the collection of The New York Public Library's Dorot Jewish Division: the Xanten Bible, written in 1294 and one of the most authoritative surviving texts of the Hebrew Bible, and the David bar Pesah Mahzor, a magnificent 14th-century prayer book for the Jewish holidays. Beginning in September 2007 and continuing through December 2008, the calendar also includes Sabbath and festival candle-lighting times and a complete list of Jewish as well as secular holidays. $13.99 / Buy it from The Library Shop  A Journey into 366 Days of Black History: Migrations 2008 Wall CalendarToday's African Americans represent the most diverse population in the United States--a population shaped by millions of individual men and women on the move, looking for better opportunities, starting over, paving the way, making sacrifices for future generations. With fascinating photographs and engaging text, this year's Journey spotlights abolitionist Henry "Box" Brown, congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael, and others. Compiled from the vast resources of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and edited by IOKTS, the calendar also lists daily milestones in black history. $13.99 / Buy it from The Library Shop  366 Days of Black History: Migrations 2008 Engagement CalendarFor 2008, 366 Days of Black History focuses on migrations--historic shifts in black populations resulting from slavery, war, and other factors. Drawing on the vast collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and edited by IOKTS, 366 Days spotlights Malvin Johnson, Claude McKay, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and other eminent black artists, intellectuals, and activists. Each day lists an important black-history milestone or an important birth date. $14.99 / Buy it from The Library Shop  Antique Maps 2008 Wall CalendarMaps of old give us a glimpse of cultural and political history, showing us the social climate of the age. These antique maps are not only slices of time from three centuries past but also art forms. Like landscape paintings, they required great skill and creativity to produce; the cartographer was both tradesman and artist. Reflecting the sensibilities of their creators, antique maps transport us to a time when the world was still largely uncharted, cultures were discovering one another, and a global village was only just being born. This calendar features 12 spectacular maps--of the world and various regions--from three of the Library's great collections: The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, the Print Collection of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, and the Spencer Collection. $13.99 / Buy it from The Library Shop B. Bergeron, rev. 7/07 |
