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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>NYPL News Update</title><link>http://www.nypl.org/news/index.cfm</link><description>Updates on New York Public Library news, programs and events</description><image><title>NYPL News Update</title><url>http://www.nypl.org/databases/images/onsite.gif</url><link>http://www.nypl.org/news/index.cfm</link></image><generator>FeedSpring - http://feedspring.com/</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:59:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>NYPL Celebrates Immigrant Heritage Week</title><link>http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=111</link><description>The New York Public Library Celebrates Immigrant Heritage Week with 27 Free, Vibrant Programs of Dance, Music, and Storytelling - April 14-20, 2008

Festivities to Include Immigrant Resource Fair on Jobs, Health, Education, Home Buying, and Citizenship - Bronx Library Center, Saturday, April 19

</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=111</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:58:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tony Kushner and Edmund White help launch new NYPL donor support group</title><link>http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=109</link><description>Tony Kushner and Edmund White Help Launch New Support Group for The New York Public Library's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collections

LGBT @ NYPL Announces over $500,000 in Major Corporate Gifts from Time Warner, MAC AIDS Fund, and Estee Lauder and Private Donations at April 3 Kickoff


(New York, NY) April 4, 2008 – A new donor support group, LGBT @ NYPL, will help to expand, build, and make accessible The New York Public Library’s extensive Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) collections, one of the few such efforts by a non-LGBT organization.

At an inaugural reception last night at the Library, LGBT @ NYPL’s Co-Chairmen Hermes Mallea and Carey Maloney announced it has raised more than $500,000 in corporate and private donations to strengthen LGBT collections across the The New York Public Library’s four research libraries and 87 branches. Mallea and Maloney were joined by Library Chairman Catherine C. Marron and President Paul LeClerc as well as Honorary Chairmen Tony Kushner and Edmund White. (Honorary Chairman Rita Mae Brown was unable to attend.)

</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=109</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:41:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NYPL's Cullman Center announces its 2008-2009 Fellows</title><link>http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=107</link><description>The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers announces the selection of its tenth class of Fellows: fifteen exceptional creative writers, independent scholars, and academics, coming to the Library from as near as Brooklyn and as far away as Warsaw. The Fellows, whose appointments were announced today by Library President Dr. Paul LeClerc and Jean Strouse, the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Center, will use the research collections and online resources of The New York Public Library’s landmark Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street to pursue a variety of book projects. They will be in residence at the Center from September 2008 through May 2009.
</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=107</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:09:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The New York Public Library News,  April 2008 Issue</title><link>http://ga6.org/enypl/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=16617136</link><description>This month's e-newsletter includes stories on expanding our online presence, the new LGBT Committee, Library President and CEO Paul LeClerc, National Poetry Month, the Rose Haggadah, and this month's public programs. </description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ga6.org/enypl/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=16617136</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:37:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Library to restore Fifth Avenue facade</title><link>http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/FacadeRestor.cfm</link><description>The New York Public Library Will Restore its Fifth Avenue Building's Historic Facade. Project to be Completed in Time for Building's 2011 Centennial.

</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/FacadeRestor.cfm</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:33:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Young Lions Fiction Award nominees revealed</title><link>http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=100</link><description>Five Young Literary Talents Chosen as Finalists for The New York Public Library’s 2008 Young Lions Fiction Award. Winning writer, aged 35 or younger, to be awarded $10,000 prize at April 28, 2008 ceremony hosted by Actor Ethan Hawke.

The finalists for The New York Public Library’s 2008 Young Lion Fictions Award are:

Ron Currie, Jr., God Is Dead
Ellen Litman, The Last Chicken in America
Peter Nathaniel Malae, Teach the Free Man
Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Emily Mitchell, The Last Summer of the World
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