- Do you know what each January bestows on us? Exciting works of art that are now in the public domain!! Feast on all we can now freely access & adapt!
- New York is a City of Readers. Enjoy a peek into our city’s past and how reading added to our collective personality.
- Bibliotherapy is real & really helpful! Some bright souls even prescribe specific poetry for what ails you and Brooklyn’s own Center for Fiction is now getting into the game!
- Time is a precious resource for all of us, so subscribe to “The Marginalian” so that Maria Popova can share her thoughts on amazing books and do some “pre-reading” for you!
- We have LOTS of new books in our Library! They each proudly sport a red sticker on their spine, so check them out when you have a chance!
- Serious about YA books? Check out Stacked!
- Librarians fight back against push to ban books from schools.
- Join Goodreads, feel free to “friend” me & sign up for the Goodreads Reading Challenge! I pledged to read 33 books in 2022, and am on my way!
- If you don’t already, sign up for JSTOR Daily! Here are their most popular stories from 2021.
- Since 2014, Tom Whitwell has been compiling a great list full of 52 fascinating facts you didn’t know but might like knowing! Jason Kottke started keeping one, too!
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Here is 1 thing I thought was worth sharing: 1. READ MORE BOOKS!! They are rectangular tickets to internal VR experiences and one of the most effective ways to boost your empathy quotient! Here are some end of year Best Books Lists that I collected for you. Happy Shopping, Happy Reading & Happy 2022 to you all!
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 (Time) NPR’s Book Concierge 2021 100 Notable Books of 2021 (New York Times) Best Books 2021 (Publishers Weekly) Best Books of 2021 (New York Public Library) Best Books of the Year (So Far) (Amazon) Best Books 2021 (School Library Journal) Best Books of 2021 So Far (Book Riot) The Best Books of the Year 2021 (Barnes & Noble) Best of 2021 (Kirkus Reviews) The 10 Best Books of 2021 (Washington Post) Smithsonian Scholars pick their favorite books of 2021 Best Books 2021 (Library Journal) Our 20 Favorite Books of 2021 (Oprah Daily) The 50 Best Books of 2021 (Esquire) Best Books of the Year (The Guardian) The 2021 Book Releases to Order Now and Thank Yourself Later (Marie Claire) The Best YA Books of 2021 (Read Brightly) The Best Books to Read in 2021 (Vogue) 200 Books that Shaped 200 Years of Literature (Center for Fiction) Here are 14 things I thought were worth sharing:
Here are 12 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. Publishing companies want to tell you all about their new books!
2. To help commemorate their 125th Anniversary, the New York Public Library has some opinions on their favorite 125 Books for Teens. 3. A new kind of historical podcast series from a new kind of public educator. 4. The American Experience in 737 Novels: a history of American literature in map form. 5. For those of you who loved The Things They Carried, it will now be a movie! 6. Some thoughts from our amazing National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, in the middle of his 2-year term. 7. Open access image libraries – a handy list! 8. I missed this in October, but we now have a LIVE NYC Subway Map! Here’s a great video about how this complicated digital map was created. 9. Are you a bit moody after the year we’ve all had? Use your moods to find your next book! 10. If you haven’t checked it out already, head to Bookshop, the “Rebel Alliance” fighting Amazon for market share, and in turn, supporting scores of independent bookstores. 11. Here are some of the top Best Books lists of 2020: Time Magazine’s Best YA and Children's Books of 2020 NPR’s Book Concierge 2020 100 Notable Books of 2020 (New York Times) Best Books of 2020 (Goodreads) Best Books 2020 (Publishers Weekly) The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 (Time Magazine) Best Books of 2020 (New York Public Library) Best Books of the Year (So Far) (Amazon) Best Books 2020 (School Library Journal) Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books of 2020 Best Books 2020 (Worst Year/Best Books; Library Journal) Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 The Best Books we read in 2020 (The New Yorker) Best Books of 2020 (Book Riot) The Ten Best History Books of 2020 (Smithsonian) The Ten Best Books of 2020 (The Washington Post) Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books of 2020 The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 (Time Magazine) The Best Books of the Year 2020 (Barnes & Noble) 12. As we hurtle towards January, we can look backward (just like the God Janus), at the many book awards that were given out this past year... Here are 13 things I thought were worth sharing:
Here are 4 things I thought were worth sharing before we break for the Summer: 1. Here is the link to my Black Lives Matter Non-Exhaustive Anti-Racism Reading List that is updated on a weekly basis. These books will help dismantle the racism, both internal and external, that is all around us...
2. Here is a treasure trove of Summer Reading Lists that should keep you busy: The Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List (contains multiple lists) Publisher’s Weekly Summer Reads 2020 125 Books We Love (NYPL) The Best Books of 2020 So Far (BBC) Summer Reading 2020 with Bill Gates Summer Reading at NY Libraries BKLYN Public Library Summer Reading (Middle School) BKLYN Public Library Summer Reading (High School) Summer Reading List from ALSC (Grades 6-8) UC Berkeley Summer Reading List Let Books Create Your Summer (NYTimes) NPR’s Book Concierge (Young Adult) The 30 Best Beach Reads of 2020 (Parade Magazine) The Best Books of 2020 (So Far) (Real Simple) 100 Books of Summer (Barnes & Noble) The Best Books of 2020 so far (BBC) New York Times Book Review New York Public Library Quest for Adventure Summer 2020 SLJ Summer Series Best Reads 2020 (School Library Journal) Summer Reading 2020 (Brooklyn Public Library) ALA’s 2020 Best Lists 3. Take a minute to sign up for NYPL’s Connect newsletter which will keep you up to date on online author events, book clubs, and literary events in the community. 4. Please tell the teens in your life that It’s time for the 11th Annual New York Times Summer Reading Contest! A chance to think deeply and creatively about what is going on in our world, and a chance to get published in the New York Times! Here are 17 things I thought were worth sharing:
Here are 17 things I thought were worth sharing:
Here are 11 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. It’s the best time of the year to buy books for yourselves (and maybe other people!) Here are some helpful end-of-year lists you can check out to help you make your decisions!
100 Notable Books (New York Times) Best Books of the Year (So Far) (Amazon) Best Books of 2019 (Goodreads) Best Books 2019 (Publishers Weekly) Best Books 2019 (School Library Journal) Best Young Adult Books of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) Best Books of 2019 (New York Public Library) CSMCL Best Books of 2019 NPR’s Book Concierge 2019 Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2019 2. Better World Books + the Internet Archive = Perfect Together! 3. Even in these trying global and local times, there are reasons to be cheerful... 4. Want to get ahead and add more tools to your mental toolkit? Take some of these classes/certifications! 5. Teaching climate change to your students? Subscribe to Acid News for free! 6. There are more and more great books for teens about depression and other mental health issues. Check out some of them here and here. 7. Did you know that Poets.org created poetry lesson plans for multiple subject areas? 8. Brooklyn Prospect now has access to Adam Matthew’s Race Relations in America database! Click here for more details! 9. Stay tuned for details on our new free online access to the Financial Times and their lesson plans for teachers! 10. The folks at Stanford are really helpful! Check out their new & free Civic Online Reasoning curriculum that you can use with your students to help them better evaluate the information they come across in their digital lives. 11. Teachers, check out FindNYCulture! It is a “a searchable directory of New York’s 4600+ museums, libraries, historical societies, science centers, parks, zoos, university art galleries, planetariums, and more.” Perfect for teachers and parents! Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing...
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