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From Paper Maps to the Web: A DIY Digital Maps Primer
*/ I was invited to the National Library of Colombia’s 2nd Digital Book Week as a speaker and to give a workshop on digital mapping tools. I thought it would be useful to share that workshop since it...
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Conflict/Resolution and Changing Geographic Realities in the Peace of the Map...
Newly installed in the Map Division’s exhibition case are three not-so-new maps demonstrating the role that maps play, years after their informative, current-events function, in documenting histories...
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Absolute Sale! NYC Land Auction Catalogs in the Map Division
Eastchester Absolute Bronx Auction Sale, July 13, 1920“Have you $20? Have you $50?” reads the invitation for real estate developers, prospective home owners, investors, and speculators to bid on...
View ArticleNYPL Labs and Map Division host first library Net Artist Residency
NYPL Labs is pleased to announce the Library's first-ever Net Artist Residency, in partnership with local hardware startup Electric...
View ArticlePeeling Off The Painted Layers of NYC Walls: Experiments With The Google...
As a web developer who works on a screen and an illustrator that works on paper, I have always admired those who could paint big—often on impossibly large and inconveniently placed walls—only to be...
View ArticleHistorical Maps in Minecraft
At a recent internal hacking event here, NYPL Labs developer Paul Beaudoin recruited me into an interesting project: transforming one of the library's 20,000 digitized historical maps into the...
View ArticleOpen Access Maps at NYPL: Posts from the Map Division
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads. We believe these maps have no known US...
View ArticleClassroom Connections: 'Grace Aguilar's American Journey,' A...
By 1900, New York City and the United States were undergoing waves of dramatic, traumatic change. Industrialization, Reconstruction and a surge of immigrants from across the globe were remaking every...
View ArticleClassroom Connections: Lists for Lesson Planning (Gr. 6-12) : Posts from the...
Aguilar Library, 1938 - Librarian w/ students. Want to know more about our current educational initiatives? See The ABC of Education: Why Libraries Matter by Maggie Jacobs, Director of Educational...
View ArticleMAPHACK: Hacking NYC's Past with NYPL Labs & Friends: Posts from the...
John Stokell used to make clocks by hand, and a few years back he got his big break. Two inventors came to him with a new networking technology and he wanted John to help make it possible. So John...
View ArticleNYPL Labs Building Inspector: No Sleep Til Brooklyn, API, and Open Source...
A few weeks ago, we launched Building Inspector, NYPL Labs' latest tool for opening up historical maps of New York City. In that time, you (and lots of other Inspectors) have helped unlock an era of...
View ArticleMAPHACK: Hacking NYC's Past with NYPL Labs & Friends
John Stokell used to make clocks by hand, and a few years back he got his big break. Two inventors came to him with a new networking technology and he wanted John to help make it possible. So John...
View ArticleThe New York City Historical GIS Project
In 2010, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded The New York Public Library's Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division a three-year grant for its New York City Historical...
View ArticleWiki Gangs of New York: Editathon Recap
It was time to represent New York City and the Wikipedians showed up in force to do so! Wiki Gangs of New York was a Wikipedia editathon which took place at the Stephen A Schwarzman building on April...
View ArticleGilded Love: Stokes and Sargent
The last time I was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, being classy, I literally stopped in my tracks when I saw this painting:It's called Mr. and Mrs. I.N. Phelps Stokes and it was painted by John...
View ArticleUnbinding the Atlas: Working with Digital Maps
NYPL has now scanned nearly all of its public domain New York City atlases (a collection of now more than 10,000 maps, the wonderfully graphical title page at left is from a recently scanned Sanborn...
View ArticleIslam in Europe: A Resource Guide at NYPL
According to the BBC News, "Islam is widely considered Europe's fastest growing religion, with immigration and above average birth rates leading to a rapid increase in the Muslim population." There are...
View ArticleAll Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections
Users are generating that reality every day at The New York Public Library through two landmark crowdsourcing endeavors, What’s on the Menu? and Map Rectifier. The former enlists the public in the...
View ArticleStart Traveling with the Help From NYPL’s Periodical Collections!
Sick of NYC’s cold weather? Got the traveling bug in you? Why not stop by the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building to check out our latest travel magazines for the newest tips, trips, and activities...
View ArticleRadioactive Artist Lauren Redniss Talks of Love, Science, and Finding...
When artist and writer Lauren Redniss is asked why she created her new graphic biography Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, her reply is as striking and powerful as her...
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