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This is a multimedia showroom for librarians, curators, event speakers, scholars, and writers working and creating at The New York Public Library. Explore staff blogs, view original videos, download podcasts, browse print publications, interact with digital exhibitions, and connect with NYPL on Facebook, Twitter, and beyond. Explore and get inspired!

Rikers

by Alice Gavin, Correctional Services Volunteer
May 20, 2013

The prison is a structure. It has walls and it has smells and there are sounds you hear inside the prison. There are people who work and who live there. There are rules and there are gates and there are also friendships, and barbershops, and rabbis. I have been going to Rikers Island, which is a piece of land, on one end of a bridge, at the edge of the world.

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Asia's Africans

by Sylviane A. Diouf, Curator of Digital Collections, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
May 2, 2013

May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. What better time to discover or learn more about Afro-Asians? As our groundbreaking exhibition Africans in India shows, some became navy commanders, army generals, and founders of dynasties. In Ahmedabad, in the Indian state of Gujarat, they left an 

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Great Albums You May Have Missed: Hasu Patel's Gayaki Sitar (1996)

by Andy Wagstaff, Central Collection Development
September 4, 2012

When thou commandest me to sing,
It seems that my heart would break with pride;
And I look to thy face,
And tears come to my eyes.

—Rabindranath Tagore*

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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - May 12th, 2013

by Adriana Blancarte-Hayward, Library Manager, New Dorp Library
May 14, 2013

For the week of May 12th, 2013 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

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