It’s National Volunteer Week! Service Takes Many Forms here at the Library, and one of the ways we recognize it is with our Friends of QPL Shining Star Award. The Shining Star Award is given to individual Friends members that demonstrate exceptional leadership qualities that…
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We hope you will join us for our special events that pay tribute to the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. We also have recommendations for great books and movies about Dr. King, and a special resource from our Queens Memory team. All Queens Public Library locations…
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Queens Public Library’s Queens Memory Project has embarked on an ambitious, new participatory digital archiving project—and we’re seeking your input. The recently launched Queens Name Explorer map unlocks the history behind our borough’s named places—including streets,…
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Do you remember your first library card? I do. I was eight years old when my mother took me to the South Hollis branch of Queens Public Library. She told me to speak up and tell the librarian that I wanted a library card. I am still astounded by the idea that there’s a place…
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Queens Public Library joins our City in celebrating Italian Heritage Day & Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which honors the past, present, and future contributions of Indigenous communities and Italian Americans. In 2021, President Biden issued a proclamation recognizing…
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