Queens Library to offer universal pre-K at Woodhaven and Ravenswood branches - NY Daily News

Queens Library to offer universal pre-K at Woodhaven and Ravenswood branches - NY Daily News:



If you live in Queens, universal prekindergarten classes could be coming to a library near you.

Two Queens Library branches in Woodhaven and Astoria will soon start
offering free pre-K programs, which officials believe will be the first
of its kind in the country.



"The library has a history of providing lifelong learning," said Nick
Buron, vice president of Public Library Service, who advocated for the
new program. "We wanted to latch onto this challenge."




It is one of the last libraries built with money from steel magnate and
philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.The recently renovated Woodhaven branch
will kick off the program when it launches in September. One class of 18
children will run from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/queens-library-offer-pre-k-classes-woodhaven-ravenswood-branches-article-1.1859414#ixzz37YdVBKOo

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Queens Library at Arverne Celebrates Re-Opening, Following Superstorm Sandy Re-Build » Public Libraries Online

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Queens Library at Arverne Celebrates Re-Opening, Following Superstorm Sandy Re-Build

by by Thomas W. Galante, President and CEO, Queens Library on April 22, 2014

On April 18, Queens Library celebrated the
grand re-opening of its library in Arverne, one of four on the
beachfront peninsula known as “the Rockaways.” Members of the community
and elected officials crowded the rebuilt library to marvel at how
wonderful it looked and to trade memories about the dark weeks following
Superstorm Sandy. Queens Library at Arverne was one of four Queens
Libraries devastated by the October 2012 hurricane. Storm surge 4 feet
high ruined the walls, furniture, computers and all electrical wiring.
The community residents fared much worse. Economically challenged before
the storm, they depended on their library for after school enrichment,
computer access, job skills training, so much more.

The Arverne library – after the hurricane. Read more...

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Archivists Bringing Past Into Future Are Now Less Cloistered - NYTimes.com

Archiving in the Digital Era: Want to see Einstein's family tea set? How about scripts from "The Carol Burnett Show"? Archivists are the specialists who protect and display these objects for posterity, now more online than ever.

By ALISON LEIGH COWAN

Published: April 28, 2013

Their gatherings take place at locations as disparate as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan or the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in Queens, but they always reflect their consummate knowledge of New York. And when the conversation turns to topics like chaos or history’s turning points, no one is in a hurry to go home. 

In fact, there is often a waitlist to get in. 

Meet New York City’s archivists. Read more...

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By VIVIAN YEE

Published: November 25, 2012

A library bus parked outside the original branch in the Rockaways has become a place for warmth and useful information.

It was the little things, the sudden absence of everyday fixtures, that disoriented residents in the Rockaways in the days after the storm, as much as the loss of house and home. The traffic lights had gone dark. Where was one to get a prescription filled? And oh, what about books due at the library?   Read more....

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