Class Visits

The Library in My Community

Our new building tour of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, designed for younger students, introduces children to the beautiful building and helps them understand the special role that this great research library plays in preserving our past for future researchers.
Duration: 2 hours. Grades: K-3.

Working with Primary Source Materials

We shall not sleep (Poem); Photograph depicting graves of American soldiers in Flanders, Belgium, 1918.
NYPL Photography Collection.

Drawing from our vast collection of digitized historical resources, we will customize a class based on students’ current study and research needs. This program is especialy appropriate for History Day and Exit Project Workshops.
Duration: 2 hours. Grades: 5-12.

My Neighborhood Then and Now

Using the collections of the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, students explore a series of maps that trace the history of their school's neighborhood.
Duration: 2 hours. Grades: 4 & 7.

Wanted Dead or Alive: An Introduction to Biographical Research

This hands-on class will introduce students to the wide variety of biographical resources available at The New York Public Library. Students will trace the lives of two individuals to contrast ways of researching historical figures and ways of researching contemporary writers and thinkers.
Duration: 2 hours. Grades: 7-12.