[CASL-L] Library Way in NYC

[David Bilmes]

I've actually walked down that street a number of times. The quotes are wonderful. You want to give yourself time to read them, and make sure you're walking from 5th Avenue (which is where the main branch of the NY Public Library is) toward Park Avenue so you'll be facing the same way as the quotes.


On the topic of New York, I spent yesterday at the Brooklyn Book Festival, which is the largest free literary event in NY. There were hundreds of authors, hundreds of book publishers and related vendors, and dozens of programs, including a whole series of presentations featuring YA authors. I attended a wonderful presentation sponsored by PEN about Banned Books, called, The Words Your Child Cannot Read. It featured Libba Bray, Matt De La Pena, Roby Harris and Christopher Myers  reading excerpts from banned books and discussing the topic. Libba Bray stole the show with her reading of And Tango Makes Three. On Saturday, they had a separate Children's Day program, geared for children ages 2-11. Being in Brooklyn, there were many people with tattoos, including a young woman who had a typewriter tattooed on the back of her left shoulder. In any case, I highly recommend it for next year if you're not afraid of a trip to Brooklyn.

http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/?


David Bilmes
Library Media Specialist
Oxford High School
Oxford, CT
(203) 888-2468, ext. 301

Reading or listening to:
I Was Here written by Gayle Forman

The library is the heart of the school, it's the hub.

-Ron Black

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From: CASL-L <casl-l-bounces at mylist.net> on behalf of Lynn Rappaport <lynfo16 at gmail.com>
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Subject: [CASL-L] Library Way in NYC

I can't believe I just learned about this -- next time when I am in NYC....how cool. Anyone been?


http://www.grandcentralpartnership.nyc/our-neighborhood/library-way

In the late '90s, the Grand Central Partnership transformed East 41st Street between Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue into a dramatic promenade to the New York Public Library's majestic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building<http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman>, the length of which is regularly studded with bronze sidewalk plaques featuring quotes from literature and poetry and the whole of which is now known as "Library Way."


Lynn


Lynn A. Rappaport
School Librarian
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