Court Square Library, located at 25-01 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, will be closed starting on Saturday, February 15 at 5pm. We have enjoyed serving you at this location over the past 30 years and look forward to seeing you again when we open a new location in the…
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JANUARY 8, 2020—The following is a statement by Queens Public Library President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott about today's rally at Court Square Library in Long Island City. My team and I have worked for more than a year to find alternatives and have visited numerous locations.…
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We hope you will join us this month for our special events that pay tribute to the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. We also have suggestions below for great books and movies about Dr. King. All Queens Public Library locations will be closed on Monday, January 20 for…
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You can remember all of the exciting things that happened at the Library this year with the top twelve Queens Public Library Magazine articles of 2019! (That's right, it was such a busy and eventful year for us, we couldn't pick just ten!) From our Black History Month passport…
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George Ford, a pioneering children’s book illustrator who received the first Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, reflects on his life in publishing and growing up in the immigrant community of Brownsville, Brooklyn. Ford visited Langston Hughes Library this year to give a…
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