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16 unusual facts about New York Public Library


Boston Public Library

The New York Public Library is the only other public library that is a member of the ARL.

Christopher Robin Milne

Milne gave the original stuffed animals that inspired the Pooh characters to the books' editor, who in turn donated them to the New York Public Library; Marjorie Taylor (in her book Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them) recounts how many were disappointed at this, and Milne had to explain that he preferred to concentrate on the things that currently interested him.

David Shulman

He felt most at home in the New York Public Library, undertaking his lexicographic research there and donating many valuable items to it.

E. Millicent Sowerby

Sowerby served as a British counterintelligence agent in France during World War I and moved to the United States in 1923, eventually finding employment in the rare book department of the New York Public Library and with A. S. W. Rosenbach.

Edmund Pearson

In 1914, Pearson and his wife moved to New York City and from 1914 to 1927 he worked at the New York Public Library as the Editor of Publications.

Harold Rosenberg

Later, he often said he was "educated on the steps of the New York Public Library." From 1938 to 1942 he was art editor for the American Guide Series produced by the Works Progress Administration.

Hermione Lee

In the USA, she has been a visiting teaching fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, a Whitney J. Oates Fellow at the Council for the Humanities at Princeton, an Everett Helm visiting fellow at the Lilly Library at the Indiana University at Bloomington, and the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2004-5.

HP Newquist

His book For Boys Only: The Biggest, Baddest Book Ever, with Marc Aronson, was selected as a singular book for “The Teen Age” by the New York Public Library.

Ira D. Wallach

With his wife Miriam, he created a charitable foundation whose beneficiaries included the New York Public Library, Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

James S. Tisch

Tisch's other positions include a seat in the directorate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the chairmanship of WNET, membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, and seats on the boards of General Electric, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, and the New York Public Library.

Jeremy Adler

This side of his work – poetry, drawings, artists’ books – is represented in many anthologies and exhibition catalogues as well as in several major collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel), the New York Public Library, the Sackner Archive (Florida), the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Special Collection, Maughan Library, King’s College London, and the Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart).

Lectionary 175

Currently the codex is located in the New York Public Library, (Rare Books and Manuscripts Divisions, Ms. 103) at New York.

Michael Allaby

The New York Public Library chose Dangerous Weather: Hurricanes as one of its books for the teenage in 1998.

Norbert Pearlroth

He usually worked ten hours a day, six days a week in the New York Public Library's Main Reading Room.

NYPL

New York Public Library, one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of America's most significant research libraries.

Ralph Delaval

His Royal Sovereign log books (1691–1693) are preserved in the archives of the New York Public Library.


Afrocentric education

The value of Schomburg's personal collection was recognized, and it was purchased by the New York Public Library in 1926 with aid of a Carnegie Corporation grant.

Alexander Samuel MacLeod

The California State Library (Sacramento), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts (Stanford University), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the New York Public Library, the Seattle Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), and the University of Hawaii at Manoa are among the public collections holding works by Alexander Samuel MacLeod.

Anna M. Harkness

Anna Harkness also made gifts to Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Natural History in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Zoological Society and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Cinda Williams Chima

They have been named Booksense and Indie Next picks, an International Reading Association Young Adult Choice, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, to the Kirkus Best YA list, and the VOYA Editors’ Choice, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, and Perfect Tens lists.

Clemens Weiss

Clemens Weiss has works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Folkwang Museum (Essen), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), New York Public Library (The Spencer Collection), Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Palace of Nations (Geneva), University of South Florida (Art Museum), Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany) and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (USA).

Harold McGraw III

McGraw is also chairman of the National Council on Economic Education; co-chair of Carnegie Hall's Corporate Leadership Committee and member of its Board of Trustees; member of the boards of the New York Public Library, National Organization on Disability, National Academy Foundation, Partnership for New York City, National Actors Theater and Prep for Prep.

Henry Ledyard

Lewis Cass Ledyard was a prominent New York lawyer in the firm Carter Ledyard & Milburn, president of the New York Public Library, and personal counsel to J. Pierpont Morgan.

Henry Roth

In 2005, ten years after Roth’s death, the first full biography of his life, the prize-winning Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, by literary scholar Steven G. Kellman, was published, followed in 2006 by Henry Roth’s centenary, which was marked by a literary tribute at the New York Public Library, sponsored by CCNY and organized by Lawrence I. Fox, Roth’s literary executor.

Institute of Cultural Inquiry

The bottles have been publicly displayed at or outside such venues as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New Museum (New York), and the New York Public Library.

International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition

Among the initiatives that marked the commemorative year was a virtual exhibition, Lest We Forget: The Triumph over Slavery, created by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and New York Public Library.

James H. Beal

Working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Beal was able to help recover stolen philatelic material, such as those stolen in the May 1977 theft at the New York Public Library, as well as several of the stolen and rare “invented airplane” (Scott C3a) which were stolen from collector Ethel Bergstresser McCoy in 1955.

Joseph William Drexel

When the Lenox Library was joined with those of John Jacob Astor and Samuel Tilden to form The New York Public Library, Drexel's collection became the basis for the Library's Music Division, housed today in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Leonard Lopate

He has also appeared in a similar capacity at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Queens College, Brooklyn College, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Alliance Française, and The New School; and he has created a series of discussions on literature for the writers’ organization, PEN International.

Louise Hawes

Waiting for Christopher (Candlewick, 2002), a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age and the first campus-wide Reading Initiative Novel at the Mississippi University for Women, and

Manuel Lima

Among these venues are TED Global, Lift, Ars Electronica, OFFF, Eyeo, Reboot, VizThink, IxDA Interaction, Royal Society of Arts, New York Public Library, TEDx Buenos Aires, Royal College of Art, Open University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ENSAD Paris, University of Amsterdam, MediaLab Prado Madrid, Sheffield School of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon.

Megan McCafferty

Her work has been translated into eleven languages including Bulgarian, Chinese and German and has been awarded numerous honors by such associations as the American Library Association and the New York Public Library.

Melissa Fay Greene

Last Man Out was named a Best Book of the Year by Chicago Tribune, Globe and Mail, the Cox newspaper chain, and the New York Public Library.

Minfong Ho

She had received many awards, including Commonwealth Book Awards from the Commonwealth Book Council and Best Books for Young Adults from the American Library Association for Rice without Rain, Pick of the Lists from the American Booksellers Association for The Clay Marble, and Best Books selection from the New York Public Library for Maples in the Mist: Children's Poems from the Tang Dynasty, among others.

Neil L. Rudenstine

He is currently on the Board of the New York Public Library, the Goldman Sachs Foundation, the Barnes Foundation, as well as many others both in the United States and in Europe.

Raoul Middleman

Paintings by Raoul Middleman can be found in private and corporate collections such as Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; National Academy of Design, NY; New York Public Library, NY; and Syracuse University, NY.

Richard Haas

These include Chase Field; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Building & Courthouse in Beckley, West Virginia; the main branch of the New York Public Library, the Lakewood Public Library (Ohio), the Sarasota County, Florida Judicial Center and the former Board of Education building in Brooklyn, NY´.