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    Siva Ramakrishnan and Steven Mahoney Receive Movers & Shakers Honor from Library Journal

    By NYPL Staff | May 1, 2024

    NYPL Staff Steven Mahoney and Services Siva Ramakrishnan named as Library Journal Movers & Shakers.

  • A woman stands on a city rooftop wearing a camel color coat with her brown hair blowing in the wind

    NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Brenda Wineapple

    By Lyudmila Sholokhova, Curator, Dorot Jewish Division | April 30, 2024

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Wineapple is working on a new biography of Fiorello La Guardia with a focus on his Jewish legacy.

  • three people sit at a table holding digital pencils and drawing in iPads

    Learn to Draw with Procreate & Enter Our Digital Art Challenge!

    By Walter Ferguson, TechConnect | April 26, 2024

    This May, we're inviting participants in our digital art classes to create new book cover art for your favorite banned books.

  • interior of Cullman center showing a round table with chairs and several sofas

    Meet the 2024–2025 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

    By NYPL Staff | April 23, 2024

    Selected from a pool of 620 applicants from 66 countries, they include academics, independent scholars, novelists, playwrights, and poets.

  • collage of five book covers

    Announcing the 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists

    By NYPL Staff | April 18, 2024

    These five talented authors are finalists for the 24th annual Young Lions Fiction Award.

  • headshot of LeVar Burton alongside graphic that reads: Join Me: Stand With Libraries, Sign a Letter

    Message from LeVar Burton: On Library Workers Day, Tell City Leaders "No Cuts to Libraries"

    By LeVar Burton | April 9, 2024

    Library workers provide critical free resources that set kids up for success—we can't risk their futures.

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