Cool! Now you can use your multifunction “ABC” library card (with PIN) to download audiobooks and eBooks from digitalbooks.brooklynpubliclibrary.org.
You can download up to 15 titles at a time and read/listen to them on your computer or portable reading/listening devices. “Automatic returns after 14 days makes checking out a book stress-free.”
Strangely, you are not allowed to “return” some audiobooks early.
“Thought flows in terms of stories – stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories.” — Frank Smith
Brooklyn Public Library, at Grand Army Plaza. Brooklyn, New York. | Go look through the archives of Frank Lynch.
Photographer Percy Loomis Sperr (1890-1964) took this photo of 353 Park Place at Underhill Ave. (N.E. corner) on August 29, 1930.
Image from the New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Gallery.
The Brooklyn Public Library "My Brooklyn" is on again. Deadline for entries: April 1. First prize is a $500 Savings Bond, Series EE.
Here’s last year’s winner, submitted by Catherine Brown. Excerpt: "I took the camera from Dave and put in a fresh roll of film. Through the
lens, a baby seemed to be falling from the clouds, a gift, a ray of hope. A
pair of strong hands reached out to catch him. And for the first time after
9/11, my husband laughed."
Click the photo for a larger image.
(ed. note: Not really secret. Also, not actually the Batcave.)
From the DAILY NEWS: "Within the next two months, construction will begin on an underground auditorium that was planned when the Grand Army Plaza Library was built in 1912 … ‘The hole for the auditorium was dug,’ Ginnie Cooper, executive director of Brooklyn Public Library, said. ‘They poured the concrete for the entire building – and then they stopped.’"
"… the $16 million project … also includes a new plaza … The auditorium will seat 200 and will have a sloped floor, a fixed stage and a video screen.
Cooper envisions conversations with authors, panel discussions and small music presentations … The entire project will take 18 months to complete…" Read it…
Also, check out this amazing construction photo from the 1910s, courtesy of our new best friends at the Brooklyn Public Library.
