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Tag: New York Public Library

March 4, 2019 by Betsy Bird

The Quintessential Librarian Stereotype: Wrestling With the Legacy of Anne Carroll Moore

Folks, it's time to have a reckoning when it comes to Anne Carroll Moore.

August 23, 2018 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: The Story Collector by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb

The Story Collector By Kristin O’Donnell Tubb Illustrated by Iacopo Bruno Henry Holt & Co. (an imprint of Macmillan) $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-250-14380-8 Ages 9-12 On shelves August 28th From 2007 until about 2012 I had the distinct pleasure of working in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of New York Public Library. It’s one of those […]

September 17, 2017 by Betsy Bird

Video Sunday: Storytime Now

Top o’ the Sunday to you! Let’s get down to business, shall we? First up, the best of the best of the best. Now I have scoured the internet for information on whether or not documentarian Frederick Wiseman will be showing Ex Libris, his latest film on New York Public Library, on PBS any time […]

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Fusenews: Digitization for the Win

July 3, 2017 by Betsy Bird

One of the many things I liked about working for New York Public Library was the institution’s longstanding dedication to diversity in children’s literature. NYPL from 1913 to about seven years ago produced a regularly updated booklist that was originally called The Negro Experience in Children’s Books and later The Black Experience in Children’s Books. […]

Video Sunday: One Earworm to Rule Them All

October 16, 2016 by Betsy Bird

I usually begin with a video of myself whenever I’ve a chance, but this week I’m preempting my own face because this video is the coolest thing ever.  By the time I left New York Public Library its Rose Reading Room had already been closed for half a year.  Now you get to see the […]

Video Sunday: Pregnant iguanas galore

May 25, 2014 by Betsy Bird

This may sound a little crazy, but even though I’m on maternity leave for three months or so, this video made me nostalgic for my system. It’s the rather remarkable Why Libraries Matter short documentary from The Atlantic. Beautifully shot and LOOK! There’s Rita Meade again! Somebody give that gal her own show. While we’re […]

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Fusenews: Coldplay, Sendak, and Golden Book Bodices

May 8, 2014 by Betsy Bird

The biggest news of the day came in the form of a single headline in The New York Times yesterday: New York Library Drops Plan to Renovate Flagship. Whoa!   So.  That happened.  Wowzah. This news comes to us less than a week after Coldplay (yes, that Coldplay) hid something in one of the books […]

Fusenews: Pretty sneaky, sis.

October 28, 2013 by Betsy Bird

I have a sister.  Did you know that?  Tis true.  She’s not a librarian and her interest in children’s literature pretty much begins and ends with me, which is probably why she hasn’t come up before.  One thing she is?  Crafty.  Crafty as all get out.  And the kicker is that she’s just started this […]

Fusenews: “Who is Fishface, and where can I find him?”

August 8, 2013 by Betsy Bird

Required Reading of the Day: Roger Sutton already told you to read it, and now I’m backing him up.  If you have not cast thine eyes upon Christopher Myers’s piece Young Dreamers in which he talks about the Trayvon Martin decision as well as Christopher’s own role in the world of children’s literature and the […]

The ABC of It: New York Public Library gives a children’s literary exhibit its all

June 29, 2013 by Betsy Bird

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when you have easy access to amazing things the relative value you place upon those things diminishes significantly after a surprisingly short amount of time. Case in Point: When I worked across the street from the MOMA for several years it was apparently too difficult for me, even […]

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