NYPL launches its new website, WWW.NYPL.ORG. The dramatically redesigned site boasts improved navigation, direct access to reference librarians, easier searching, and rich content from staff members across the Library.
The interactive online exhibitionON THE ROAD WITH CANDIDE showcases pioneering digital content, using the on-site exhibition Candide at 250: Scandal and Success as an embarkation point for a unique online journey. This unconventional presentation of Candide solicits the involvement of diverse communities, including students, visual artists, and scholars, while aspiring to inspire a whole new generation of readers.
The 2010 edition of CONNECTIONS: A GUIDE FOR FORMERLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE TO INFORMATION SOURCES IN NEW YORK CITY is published by the Library's Correctional Services Program. The guide is free to those incarcerated in New York State prisons and local jails and to agencies that help to provide services to former inmates. Upon request, copies are sent to federal and state correctional facilities and to local city government agencies, including community-based organizations serving the prison population.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority partners with NYPL for its TRAIN OF THOUGHT series; the Library's expert staff select pithy quotations (history, philosophy, literature, science), which appear on subway car posters and the back of MetroCards.
