Burning of Library of Alexandria. New York City passed its budget for fiscal year 2013 this past Monday, and city libraries survived a proposed major slash in funding. The NYPL and Brooklyn Library both made statements thanking the city for restoring $90 million back to the library budget. Tammany Hall supporters at work (1871, NYPL).…
The New York City Hall Library offers an online search page that one might say lacks all character. City Hall Library website. There is no indication that this site is the reference collection for the Mayor of the City of New York. It looks like a library student’s computer 101 project about a children’s reading…
This past Saturday, the Library of Congress blog noted a milestone in the history of its collection: “Two hundred years ago today, President James Madison set pen to paper to write a message to Congress. His intent was to talk them into making the nation’s first formal declaration of war – on Great Britain, which was…