NEW YORK - The Brooklyn Public Library is looking to combat a spike in book bans in the United States by offering its extensive collection for free to teenagers nationwide. Earlier this month, the library announced its new program called Books UnBanned, which allows those between the ages...
BPL already had a program offering out-of-state residents the opportunity to obtain a BPL card and borrow ebooks and other content from the library for a $50 annual fee. In April, the library launched Books Unbanned by expanding that program to offer free access to anyone age 13 to 21 wh...
"Our goal is to make sure our customers feel empowered to take advantage of the service that we have," said Dennis Walcott, president of the Queens Public Library. Walcott said, previously, once a library card had more than $15 in fines, the card was then blocked. About 400,000 people ...
Greenpoint resident Antonio Sanchez popped in to sign up for a library card. "I was doing chores and I saw when I was leaving, and I was like, when I come back, I'm going to check it out," he said. The idea came to library staff after the Leonard Branch temporarily closed at ...
If you go to the New York section of Universal studios, you will find a small version of the New York Public Library. The building is mostly a flat painting, but the stone staircase in front is real. And part of the lion statues are real, 3D. The other parts are painted on. To ...
When new Topps blasters hit the shelves in my local big box stores, I check the card count on them, and I’m kind of stunned that it’s orders of magnitude higher than common prices per-card, all for the promise of getting something that I might not even want to keep. On the ...
Downloading: Mapping the World at the New York Public Library As a lifelong gamer, I’ve spent many, many hours staring at maps or drawing my own. Most board games provide maps of sorts that define movement and area control. For players ofDungeons & Dragonsand the like, adventure maps cre...
“Then my friend Dan said ‘you should go back to doing drawings,’” he says as he stands before figurative canvasses in black and white on cardboard. “I said ‘I can’t! It’s too hard! But eventually I began working in my studio five days a week, and I made enough for a ...
In 2019, two partners and I in a foundedCampaign Gamesto create games with a focus on history and narrative play. That spring, we introduced aDungeons and Dragons 5th editioncompatible role playing game adventure calledForts & Frontiers: The Feast of the Deadas part ofFree RPG Day. A month...
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