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Thursday, May 22, 2014

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Stand Up for the Branches


Thanks
to our patrons’ years of hard work and advocacy, Mayor de Blasio has
proposed a budget that maintains funding levels for Brooklyn Public
Library (BPL)—sparing a devastating cut.



However, after years of budget cuts, the city’s three library
systems need $65 million more in public funding to provide more hours,
more programs and more vital resources to New Yorkers.




Now is the time to build the library system that Brooklyn truly deserves.




We have a historic opportunity to ask the City for increased funding to
allow all BPL branches to stay open six days a week, provide more
collections and programs and improve our facilities. But we need your
help.



Here’s how you can Stand Up for the Branches:




» Write to your elected officials to ask for increased funding and share what BPL means to you

» Stay on top of the latest BPL news through Facebook, Twitter and eNews, and share with your friends

» Make a gift to your neighborhood library through our Support the Branches campaign


Thank you for standing up for BPL and making a statement that our libraries are essential to Brooklyn.





Support all NYC libraries.

Visit mylibraryis.org to learn about all three library

systems in the City and the vital role they all play.






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Thursday, May 8, 2014

How ‘Google it’ could be redefined in the smartphone era

How ‘Google it’ could be redefined in the smartphone era





We may increasingly Google things without typing at all. (Alan Diaz/AP)
Here’s a look at five ideas that could impact the way we live, work and play.


1. Context as the new search. Here’s a remarkable stat
— the average Android smartphone user searches the Web only 1.25 times a
day from a Web browser. The future of finding information — or Googling
— on smartphones may be a lot different than the traditional Web
searches we conduct on PCs and laptops. This can happen thanks to the
contextual data smartphones know about us, as Quartz explains: 



In contrast to the paltry number of times users of Everything.Me are
searching the Web each day, they’re engaging in context-based
interactions with their customized home screens dozens of times a day.

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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Washington Heights Library Reopens to Rave Reviews
















After a $12.4 million renovation the public library in Washington Heights re-opened to the public Monday.


Elected officials joined with students and residents for a ribbon cutting ceremony.

The library had been closed for nearly four years.


The branch now boasts one of the largest children's rooms in the entire New
York Public Library system, a brand new elevator and 55 new computers
and laptops.

"The ingredients are here. Amazing staff. Great books. Beautiful building," said New York Public Library President Tony Marx.


"People used to wait 45 minutes to get a computer appointment, and now I am expecting people not to wait any longer because we have so many computers available," said Library Manager Vianela Rivas.

People in the neighborhood are happy the wait is over.  Read more AND View Video...
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