Statement by Queens Public Library President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott on the Passing of Mayor David N. Dinkins “Mayor Dinkins gave New Yorkers the gifts of learning, literacy, and opportunity by increasing the City’s investment in public libraries, even in the face of…
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Queens Public Library And Queens Defenders Form Partnership To Equip Parolees Released From Prison During The Covid-19 Pandemic With Smartphones, Data Plans And Other Tech Resources Funded Through a $330,000 Federal CARES Act Grant for Museums and Libraries, the “Immediate…
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Every Thursday, the library hosts an author for its Literary Thursdays program. On November 5, our guest was Carlton F.W. Larson, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law and leading treason scholar. Larson’s new book, On…
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Join us for our virtual celebration of Indie Author Day, the annual event which brings local writing and reading communities together. Our special online events will include readings by local authors of children's and adult prose and poetry and the workshop "Publishing Practice…
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Every Thursday at 4pm, the Library hosts a guest author for Literary Thursdays. On Thursday, October 22, our guest was Margaret Andersen, the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Emeritus of Sociology from the University of Delaware. Andersen’s latest book,…
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