It’s National Volunteer Week 2016, and we want to celebrate the important role of volunteers at Queens Library!All this week, we will share stories of our volunteers on our blog. Thank you to them, and to every Queens Library volunteer, for their service!Mark Mehler was a…
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It’s National Volunteer Week 2016, and we want to celebrate the important role of volunteers at Queens Library!All this week, we will share stories of our volunteers on our blog. Thank you to them, and to every Queens Library volunteer, for their service!Mary Ann Grassl serves…
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Twitter Q&A session with Dennis Walcott on April 6!Our new President and CEO answered questions about quiet at the library, the path to 7-day service, which book he's currently reading, and more.In case you missed it, you can read…
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Andrew Jackson (Sekou Molefi Baako) has been Executive Director of the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center since 1980. He is retiring this year, and Queens Library will miss him, as will the countless people outside the Library whose lives he has enriched. The…
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New York City has had the honor of hosting the World’s Fair three times — and two of them have been held in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park! Now, 50 years after our city’s last World’s Fair, a new project has been created to preserve their memory by talking with the people who were…
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