Posted in General | January 7, 2022
We hope you will join us for our special virtual 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, and a special surprise from our Queens Memory team! All Queens Public Library…
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Posted in General | November 4, 2021
Do you have children ages 0-17? Raising children can be expensive, but there's financial help waiting for you, the Child Tax Credit. You may be able to claim half of the fully refundable Child Tax Credit - worth up to $3,600 per child - as advance monthly payments in 2021 and…
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Posted in General | October 26, 2021
Meral Agish, Queens Memory community coordinator, recently held a workshop on conducting oral histories. Queens Memory is a community archiving program supported by Queens Public Library and Queens College, CUNY. They seek to promote local histories in the community through…
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Posted in General | October 25, 2021
Sixty to eighty percent of all jobs are filled through networking, according to the Job and Business Academy’s Blanca Baquero who led a recent workshop on networking. Baquero spent most of her career in human resources. Networking helps us to maintain quality relationships,…
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Posted in General | October 21, 2021
Happy National Friends of Libraries Week! It’s the annual celebration of library Friends groups and everything they do for their neighborhood libraries. In honor of Friends of Libraries Week, we asked the staff at our branches to talk about the special relationship they have…
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