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Connecting Cultures Through Books!

The presence of three books in the new Connecting Cultures installation  gives me a welcome opportunity to talk about these key works that are in the…

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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
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Libraries & Archives, Newly on View
Portraits of a People

A Recent Donation from Camille and Luther Clark

The Brooklyn Museum Library collection has recently been enriched with the donation of several rare items of African American art given by Camille and Luther…

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
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Arts of Africa, Libraries & Archives

Brooklyn Museum books online!

About a year ago, inspired by LACMA’s Reading Room, we started thinking about digitizing some Brooklyn Museum publications. We were excited to learn that many…

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Friday, March 11th, 2011
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Digital Lab, Libraries & Archives, Publications, Technology

A Titanic–Egypt Connection in the Wilbour Library of Egyptology

Like people, books have histories. Bookplates, inscriptions and marginal notes all tell us something about where the book has been and who owned it. The…

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Monday, July 28th, 2008
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Libraries & Archives

Click! The Book

Cover: Marcia Bricker Halperin. Dubrow’s Cafeteria, 1979. Softcover: 86 pages, 7 x 7 inches. Details, including a special $3-off coupon from Blurb.com, can be found…

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Monday, July 7th, 2008
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Click Exhibition, Photography, Publications, Technology

What is a book?

On April 5th we had our second talk in a series of discussions to commemorate the 185th anniversary of the founding of the Library. The…

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Monday, April 21st, 2008
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Event, Libraries & Archives
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