East Elmhurst, NY, June 28, 2019—Queens Public Library (QPL) and the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) joined with the community and local elected officials today to celebrate the re-opening of the East Elmhurst Community Library after a $9.9 million expansion and…
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After careful consideration, starting July 1, 2019, Queens Public Library will no longer offer customers free access to Kanopy, the video streaming service. While we understand that some cardholders enjoyed this service, the increasing cost of Kanopy and the need to devote our…
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Statement on the City’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget by Queens Public Library President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott, Brooklyn Public Library President and CEO Linda E. Johnson, and The New York Public Library President and CEO Anthony Marx…
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This year, Kenneth C. Davis, author of books about American history, visited eleven schools in Queens in a series organized by the MyLibraryNYC program. More than 2,000 students and adults attended the author’s presentations, where he primarily spoke about two of his books, In…
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This spring, Kwame Alexander spoke to a rapt audience of fourth and fifth graders at PS 48 in Queens as part of a program that Queens Public Library organized through South Jamaica Reads to bring authors to schools. Bestselling author Alexander says he owes his success to…
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