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A recent article in Forbes magazine suggested that Amazon replace Public Libraries. We librarians think that is bad for democracy. A library is one of the only public spaces left, open to anyone, that does not require you buy anything to enter. Libraries are built on the premise that everyone has the right to information, culture, and space to be human in. And libraries and librarians do more than just provide access to books, they work with the homeless, they help people to find jobs, work toward citizenship, and much more.
Read a response to the article

"I’m a librarian. The last thing we need is Silicon Valley ‘disruption.’" A Forbes column arguing that Amazon should replace libraries grossly underestimates how many services libraries offer.

In May we are celebrating May Day and Worker's Rights with a special display about the history of the Labor Movement. Come by and check it out!

Hello MCNY! Welcome back! We hope that everyone's summer has gotten off to a super start. Come by the Learning Common's and meet with a librarian. You can even make an appointment https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduh-TvVhsywZz-yPXwTwofYXOnEEwfg3j_o9lco-B4OTB66A/viewform
to discuss all sorts of things, including strategies for effective efficient research and all the special resources we have available to you here at MCNY,

Research Consultations- MCNY Library Not sure how to get started on a specific research question or assignment? Set up a Research Consultation with a librarian.

"When Henrietta Lacks was dying of cancer in 1951, her cells were harvested without her knowledge. They became crucial to scientific research and her story became a bestseller. Since then, Lacks has become one of the most powerful symbols for informed consent in the history of science."

Henrietta Lacks' Lasting Impact Detailed In New Portrait The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., has unveiled a portrait of Lacks, whose cells have been used for decades — without her consent — to find medical breakthroughs.

The Top 10 Challenged and Banned Books of 2017 has been released. This video discusses censorship in the US and reveals the top 10 list.

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2017 Of the 416 books banned or challenged in 2017, here are the Top 10 Most Challenged. The annual list is compiled by the American Library Association's Office ...

MCNY 4th Annual Poetry Slam! 4/11/18. 4:30pm. (MNHT Campus) Sign up today in the library. Share your rhymes and your voice. Or just join us and celebrate one another and the healing power of poetry.

Martin Luther King was assassinated 50 years ago, on April 4th 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.He had come to Memphis to march in solidarity with the sanitation strikers scheduled to take place on April 8th..

King's widow, Coretta Scott King, together with the couple's four small children, led a crowd on April 8th. An estimated at 40,000 in a silent march through the streets of Memphis to honor the fallen leader and support the cause of the city's black sanitation workers.

Among the many lessons to be to drawn from King's profound legacy is his attention to the material conditions of people's lives, to the policies and practices that create the conditions of injustice. In addition to broad calls for racial harmony, he focused on poverty, on desegregation in housing and in schools, and on the importance and police accountability.

This is a time to remember the profundity of Dr. King's work, the violence of his loss, the aspirations of his legacy and the long, hard, precise work to, as he (sort of) said, bend the long arch of the moral universe toward justice.

Peace

- The MCNY Library

Time to select this year's book for One Book, One New York!

One Book, One New York

Share your voice and your poetry! MCNY's 4th Annual Poetry Slam stop by the library to sign up to read today! And tell all your poet friends, they are welcome to!
April 11th|4:30pm|Community Commons|60 West Street

Today (3/28) see Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart.s the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters and unprecedented subject matter. But Hansberry was also an activist who fought for social justice, a radical intellectual and fascinating woman!
Community Commons
Manhattan
4:30pm

Helpful advice in case you want to continue using Facebook.

How to use Facebook while giving it the minimum amount of personal data The Cambridge Analytica revelations illustrate why we can’t trust Facebook to police its own platform

One of the best ways to empower ourselves as citizens is to keep track of what our elected officials are doing. These step-by-step instructions from the Library of Congress show you how to locate the bills and amendments that your elected officials are sponsoring.

How to Locate the Bills and Amendments a Member of Congress has Sponsored or Cosponsored in Congress.gov | In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress