WINTER 2020 OFF THE SHELF A LOOK INSIDE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The next U.S. Census is just around an atmosphere of trust around the the corner, with the household census,” says Mikel. “We’re already This is a big year for Brooklyn. The 2020 self-response period beginning in reaching hard-to-count communities Census is rapidly approaching, and the mid-March 2020. Mandated by our within our branches and will partner with Library will play a critical role in counting Constitution, the U.S. Census Bureau every possible group to help amplify every Kings County resident—few if counts the entire U.S. population every census awareness.” any civic institutions are as integrated decade. This count determines each Mikel’s team is rolling out dozens of into the life of our neighborhoods as state’s allotment in the House of census-focused programs including the Library. Two branches will open Representatives, how legislative districts storytimes, community forums, public this year: Greenpoint, along with its are redrawn, and the annual distribution lectures and open house events. BPL’s Environmental Education Center, and of billions of dollars of federal state aid. Adams Street, a brand-new location on network of 1700+ computers and laptops the waterfront serving DUMBO, For the first time in history, the 2020 have been readied for the census, Vinegar Hill and Farragut. In branches Census will be primarily conducted including special tablets. Partnerships across the borough, we are excited online. Brooklyn (Kings County) is with neighborhood-based organizations to implement round six of BKLYN considered uniquely hard-to-count, due will ensure that census messaging is Incubator, an initiative focused on to the high population percentage of tailored as much as possible. Says Mikel, innovative programming and staff renters, single parents, children under “the Library has emerged as a key development. This winter issue of Off five, residents who are foreign-born and/ leader, connector and convener among the Shelf proves Brooklyn Public Library or over the age of 65, as well as those the hundreds of groups citywide is as creative and energized as the city with limited English proficiency and supporting the 2020 Census.” we serve. without internet at home. In order to increase 2020 response rates, City and State advocates have secured funding to We’re working connect with key at-risk demographics. towards achieving Linda E. Johnson Public libraries will be a major player and President & CEO Amy Mikel, Manager of Civic 100% participation Engagement, is leading the charge at BPL to ensure Brooklyn’s 2.6M residents in Brooklyn. AMY MIKEL In this Issue are counted. “Libraries are key to building Brooklyn Collection ...... 02 Feature: Capital Projects ...... 04 Donor Spotlight ...... 06 BookMatch...... 07 BKLYN Incubator...... 08 Feature: Best Buy Teen Tech Center. . . 10 BPL Presents ...... 11 BROOKLYN
Cover: Jasmine Wilson performing with the Dream Unfinished Orchestra at BPL’s’Til Victory is Won teach-in held at Central Library in October COUNTS 2019, observing the 400th anniversary of the BROOKLYN AND BPL PREPARE FOR THE 2020 U.S. CENSUS arrival of enslaved Africans to the shores of Jamestown, Virginia. BPL Adult Education program graduates All photos, unless indicated, by Gregg Richards celebrate receiving their high school diplomas at a recent graduation ceremony at Central Library OFF THE SHELF WINTER 2020 1 BROOKLYN COLLECTION the power of those “pulps” in shaping I’ll write as I please and let Asimov’s writing that it showed up in the critics do the analyzing. nearly every obituary written about him. But a bit of digging reveals that Isaac’s ISAAC ASIMOV, 1973 story is more nuanced then that. The door to storytelling may have been opened by By the time Isaac Asimov died in 1992, he pulp stories, but the room it led to was had written or edited over 500 books and Brooklyn Public Library. hundreds of short stories over the course of his 72 years; a staggeringly prolific Asimov’s father secured him a library card career. A giant amongst the Hard Science as a tactic to keep him away from that I, ASIMOV IN Fiction genre, he was considered one of science fiction “trash,” as it was referred the “Big Three” along with Robert Heinlein to. Ironically, BPL provided even greater and Arthur C. Clarke. He won every access as well as windows into many other science fiction award available, creating worlds. According to his memoir, Asimov’s BROOKLYN canonical characters and stories. It was experiences in the library left an indelible HOW BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY SHAPED A WRITER’S MIND Asimov who coined the term “robotics” impression: “My real education, the super- and was responsible for conceiving the structure, the details, the true architecture, ground-breaking “Three Laws of Robotics” I got out of the public library. For an (from his book I, Robot) which have impoverished child whose family could not informed much of how robots have been afford to buy books, the library was the portrayed in literature, film and television. open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that His family immigrated from Russia in 1923, I had the wit to charge through that door lived at numerous addresses in Brooklyn and make the most of it.” and owned a series of candy shops. It was in these candy shops that the soon-to- be-great writer began reading the store’s To learn more visit stockpile of science fiction pulp novels. bklynlibrary.org/blogs/
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ADAMS STREET LIBRARY WORKac DD #3 + VIEW AT ENTRANCE FEATURE Greenpoint Library Brooklyn Public Library has always Adams Street Library Environmental striven to ensure that our resources are in easy reach of every one of Education Center Brooklyn’s 2.6 million residents. In recent years, growing communities and Entrance View residential shifts have created the need for
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FIVE YEAR CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION PLAN HIGHLIGHTS 9 construction campaign. In the coming five years, work will begin (or has already begun) on the creation of two new branches and the renovation or rebuilding NO NEIGHBORHOOD of over a dozen other branches. First up is Greenpoint Library, which is Rendering by WORKac by Rendering being completely rebuilt to include an IS TRULY COMPLETE 11 Environmental Education Center that will Meanwhile, BPL’s flagship Central Library is transform the branch and promote already in the midst of a multi-phase WITHOUT A environmental awareness in the renovation project. We’re making much- neighborhood. Later in the year, the new needed updates to the elevators, Adams Street Library will open to serve restrooms, fire alarm systems, HVAC and LOCAL LIBRARY the DUMBO and Vinegar Hill wayfinding. The Grand Lobby is getting neighborhoods, including the Farragut restored historic oak panels, new floors, Houses, to be followed by a beautiful new lighting, HVAC and exhibition cases. The TO SERVE IT. Brooklyn Heights Library. Also, the former information, check-out and returns desks Brower Park Library in Crown Heights will are moving to Central’s new Major Owens be moved into the Brooklyn Children’s Welcome Center, named for the beloved Museum, fostering opportunities for Central librarian and former Congressman. collaborative programming between the The Popular Library is moving to a new two institutions, and a cultural commons space on the first floor to serve as a located in the BAM Cultural District will be gateway into Central’s diverse collection. opening in the next year to serve as a We’re also creating a new Civic Commons Library outpost in that vibrant cultural hub. with an entrance on Flatbush Avenue that In addition, other branches will be will house the passport office, IDNYC and undergoing complete redesigns and bring together all the community services renovations over the next several years, we offer at Central. The public computer including Sunset Park, Rugby (East center will also relocate from the third floor Flatbush), Red Hook, Brownsville and to this space. Meanwhile, the Business and Eastern Parkway (Crown Heights). Career Center will relocate to a prominent location on the second floor and be expanded to better provide important To learn more about the career and financial programming. Central Library project visit bklynlibrary.org/locations/central/ renovation Rendering by Marble Fairbanks Marble by Rendering 4 OFF THE SHELF WINTER 2020 OFF THE SHELF WINTER 2020 5 marble fairbanks DONOR SPOTLIGHT BKLYN Growing up in Dyker Heights, Michael Festa cherished his BOOKMATCH Saturday morning ritual. CIVIC Every week, rain or shine, he and his father would go bowling and then head to Bay ENGAGEMENT Ridge Library. It was there, he says, that his love of learning and voracious appetite for reading were ignited. READING Years later, Michael’s service on his LIST Community Board in Bay Ridge led him to become acquainted with Jay Filan, Fort BookMatch is a readers’ Hamilton Library’s Neighborhood Library advisory service Supervisor. “I was so impressed to learn I Was Their American Dream: Infomocracy: Book One where librarians create about all the important ways the library a Graphic Memoir of the Centenal Cycle customized reading by Malaka Gharib by Malka Older serves my community today, and I was also Photo by Jack Cavicchi recommendations based In this exploration of identity and In this future fiction novel, the reminded of how much Brooklyn Public on current events and on culture, Malaka traces her coming world operates in a “micro- Library meant to me growing up,” he says. of age in America, learning to democracy”, divided into The family’s generosity also extends to the interests and needs When Michael’s father passed away years code-switch between her family’s “centenals,” which vote on a BPL’s Creative Aging programs. Michael of patrons. later, BPL was the natural place to honor Filipino and Egyptian heritage government every ten years. Can was inspired to support this program his memory. His father was a fan of horror while adapting to white culture. the biggest political experiment because he recognized the need for of all time succeed when so and science fiction and the family funded Steal This Country: A Handbook older adults to stay active and engaged Making Hispanics: How many have so much to gain? a book collection of these works in for Resistance, Persistence, in his own community. Recently, the family Activists, Bureaucrats, and his honor. and Fixing Almost Everything Media Constructed a New How Does It Feel to Be a provided funds for Creative Aging’s “This by Alexandra Styron American Problem?: Being Young and A proud Brooklynite, Michael is also Is Our Story” project at Fort Hamilton A primer for teenage activism, by G. Cristina Mora Arab in America a local history buff and collector of Library, which teaches older adults from climate change, racial This book unpacks the origin by Moustafa Bayoumi justice and women’s rights to ephemera. In 2019, he donated an storytelling and performance techniques, of the terms “Hispanics” and A profile of a community through LGBTQIA rights, immigration and array of memorabilia to BPL’s Brooklyn drawing from memories of their Brooklyn “Latinos” and the creation the lives of seven young Arab intersectionality. of a new identity category Americans living in Brooklyn. neighborhoods. Collection archives, including an eclectic on the decennial census. and delightful assortment of local 20th We Count! A 2020 Census A People’s Future of the United century piggy banks. Michael’s love of Counting Book The American Census: States: Speculative Fiction local history served as the catalyst for his If there’s one thing I’ve learned by We Count! A Social History, from 25 Extraordinary Writers An interactive counting book family’s ongoing support of BPL’s Brooklyn Second Edition ed. Victor LaValle & about BPL, it’s that no matter which shows families in by Margo J. Anderson John Joseph Adams Connections program, which introduces what stage of life you’re in, the diverse living situations while An examination of the history Twenty visionary stories from students to archival research and inquiry- teaching about the census. of the census as a tool for persons of color, indigenous based learning through the investigation Library is always there for you. apportionment of power and writers, women, queer and trans and analysis of Brooklyn history. The Festa rationale for American social people, Muslims and others MICHAEL FESTA family provides funding for the program Get your own science. whose imagination of a bright BookMatch list at hoping it will inspire the next generation of future for themselves is too often bklynlibrary.org/ seen as an act of resistance. Brooklyn history enthusiasts. bookmatch
6 OFF THE SHELF WINTER 2020 OFF THE SHELF WINTER 2020 7 Adeeba Rana (on left) presiding STAFF SPOTLIGHT over Brighton Beach’s CookMobile program last June.
neighborhood as a whole instead of A librarian presents at the Incubator pitch competition small, segregated populations.” Adeeba’s 2019 program, CookMobile, taught teens essential skills in cooking and BKLYN food literacy by utilizing a mobile kitchen- style classroom based at Brighton Beach Library as well as at Central and Cypress Hills libraries. “Teens can really eat. Really. We often had to double our recipes! It also Incubator became imminently clear that teaching If you’ve ever had a conversation with a continued after the conclusion of their Adeeba Rana, Senior Young teens to cook builds community, essential librarian, you know they are full of ideas initial launch. Several BKLYN Incubator Adult Librarian at Brighton skills and their love for the library,” she says. and insights into how to serve the public programs have even expanded to include Beach Library, is a veteran BKLYN Adeeba believes the benefits of BKLYN and improve programming. To harness this additional BPL branches. Incubator participant, having proposed and Incubator ripple across BPL. “I feel so energy, BPL launched the BKLYN Incubator implemented three different projects over excited to create proposals that fill a need program in 2015, empowering librarians “It’s really important to tap into the vast the past few years. “Having an outlet that I see in my community, but I am always and public-serving staff to devise knowledge base of our staff from across through which I can make direct change more excited to see how many different grassroots projects that respond directly to the borough. They know their patrons, and measure the impact of my work has ideas come into play across the system. community needs. Staff receive their communities, and most importantly been a vital part of what has kept me Library workers really pay attention to their professional development, mentorship and they know the needs that can be resilient and motivated for the past three BRYNNA TUCKER community and find creative solutions— resources to help them further advance provided by the Library.” years at BPL. I love that BKLYN Incubator SENIOR MANAGER OF INNOVATION then, Brynna and her team help turn those their innovative ideas for community- gives library workers a venue to create the solutions into viable options for staff to focused programming. projects that can elevate the conversations BKLYN Incubator projects cover a wide experiment with.” in their communities.” At the start of each Incubator cycle, range of subjects and target populations. inspired staff members are encouraged to Now in its sixth round of funding, past In 2018, her program Brighton Beach draft a proposal outlining their idea, which Incubator programs have included teen Bridges and Coney Island Causeways is then assessed by a panel of their peers, writing workshops (Tracing Your Roots), provided arts-based cultural competency in addition to receiving online public social work consultations and life coaching training for staff and branch partners at feedback. After careful review, a group of outreach to the homeless (Shine on Me), Brighton Beach and Coney Island finalists then make live presentations training for immigrants to become childcare libraries, enabling staff to better engage before a panel of judges, also composed providers (Root Resource), numerous library users, cultivate unity and of fellow Library staffers. The winning innovative lending libraries (musical celebrate the complex diversity of projects receive small seed grants to help instruments, board games), and several Brighton Beach and Coney Island. “After launch these new and exciting programs. community podcasts for teens (Bklyn our training,” she says, “we employed To date, BKLYN Incubator has engaged Mixtape, KNRC Radio, and Brownsville our learning to create more nuanced over 300 staff members from 53 different Excerpts) and adults (Hear Me Out). programming—with great results! To learn more about the BPL branches. Over 40 pilot programs Attendance for our programs was more program visit bklynlibrary.org/ have been funded and many have BKLYN Incubator is supported by generous funding provided by The Charles H. Revson Foundation robust and more diverse; reflective of our incubator-submissions and Robin K. and Jay L. Lewis.
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Unless otherwise noted all events take place in Central Library’s Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Cultural Center. KNOW A TEEN IN BROOKLYN?
They should check out BPL’s new Best the space to write and illustrate original Buy Teen Tech Center (BBTTC) at Kings poetry, stories and films, and build kinetic Highway Library where they can create a sculptures and robotic constructions video, lay down tracks in a music studio, using the 3D printer. The music studio has produce images and videos with digital become very popular and one of the teens The cameras, or learn how to create advanced who attends regularly has become the de photoshop effects! The BBTTC opened in facto studio “engineer,” helping with set-up, March 2019 and is the first of its kind in all demonstrating equipment and assisting with of New York City’s five boroughs. the creation of rhythmic tracks. In addition, BPL’s own roster of T4 interns (teens who Located at Kings Highway Library and have completed intensive technology designed exclusively for kids ages training and serve as branch volunteers) 13-18, this interactive learning space offer weekly workshops that cover topics as includes multiple computer workstations, diverse as Java coding, chess and origami. collaboration areas, a sewing station and an array of technical equipment as well as States frequent teen attendee Vic Blunnie, TH its own music studio. Many teens also use “Coming to the BBTTC I’ve been able to Amendment the BBTTC as a safe space for schoolwork, learn and try a lot of things I haven’t had using its vast array of resources to complete the opportunity to do before.” their assignments. In addition, the Center’s BPL is delighted with the success of the partnership in The Clubhouse Network BBTTC at Kings Highway Library, which offers access to a community of teens BPL Presents invites the public to help draft the I28th Amendment of the is the first of nearly a dozen teen-specific in over 100 clubhouses in 20 countries, 28Constitution. Through a series of Town Hall-style forums held at library spaces planned for BPL branches across allowing them to share their projects with branches, correctional facilities and high schools, Brooklynites of all ages the borough. youth from around the world. and backgrounds will come together to discuss and debate the issues that they believe the amendment should address. The amendment, written by our The BBTTC has become a hub for teen The Best Buy Teen Tech Center is made possible by the Best Buy Foundation and ERI. Support is Framers, will reflect the aspirations and collective will of the people of Brooklyn. creativity. Teens produce original music, also provided by New York State Senator Simcha design video animation, participate Felder and Earle Muroff. Wifi is powered by in weekly BKLYN Robotics League Optimum by Altice. workshops, and construct video games Visit bklynlib.org/28th-amendment and mobile applications. Teens also use To learn more visit to learn more about the process and bklynlib.org/teen-tech-center find a Town Hall near you.
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LITFILM A FILM FESTIVAL ABOUT WRITERS Tuesday, March 17 – Sunday, March 22 WINTER SEMESTER Dweck Center Bedford Library In the third edition of LitFilm, BPL’s popular The second semester of University Open Air film festival about writers, audience members kicks off this winter indoors at Brooklyn Public will get an inside look at writers’ lives, Library. University Open Air is a space for artistic processes and political struggles foreign-born scholars to share their knowledge through inspiring documentaries and films. and experience with fellow community The weeklong event will comprise of panel members, neighbors and friends. Courses will discussions and talkbacks with many of the be offered in the sciences and humanities, as filmmakers and writers featured, including well as other disciplines. The classes will take an appearance by Toni Morrison: The Pieces I place over a span of two weeks and will be free Am director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. LitFilm and open to all. Please note, while UOA courses is made possible by support from WarnerMedia. aim to equip students with valuable skills, they are non-accredited. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Check bklynlibrary.org/litfilm for information.
Check bklynlibrary.org/university-open-air for information. EXHIBITION STARS DOWN TO EARTH THE Through March 13 REVIEW Central Library From wonders of the cosmos to urgent questions around PANEL habitable futures on Earth, this exhibition brings together Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7 pm the scientific inquiries and complex visual systems of Wednesday, Mar. 11, 7 pm artists Dario Robleto and Mary Mattingly. Mary Mattingly is the 2020 Katowitz Radin Artist-in-Residence. Wednesday, Apr. 15, 7 pm Dweck Center TO LIVE / ÊTRE VIVANT MESSAGE FROM THE LIBRARY A NIGHT OF PHILOSOPHY & IDEAS 2020 BILL T. JONES: AT RISK Leading art critics join moderator David Cohen Saturday, Feb. 1 – Sunday, Feb. 2, 7 pm – 7 am Sunday, April 5, 7 pm in lively debate about Grand Lobby A Night of Philosophy & Ideas 2020 is a 12-hour marathon current exhibitions showcasing contemporary philosophical thought through A biannual series, Message around the five boroughs. Presented in association intellectual talks and debates, specially commissioned from the Library convenes with Artcritical. art installations, live performances, and film and video diverse voices in the screenings that explore philosophy in playful and Library’s safe space to have provocative ways. It is co-presented by the Cultural meaningful dialogue about For complete Services of the French Embassy. the most precarious issues listings visit: of the day. bklynlibrary.org/ bpl-presents
12 OFF THE SHELF WINTER 2020 OFF THE SHELF WINTER 2020 13 CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE CONCERT SERIES DAVID KRAKAUER & KATHLEEN TAGG EVENTS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES BREATH & HAMMER Sunday, March 1, 4 pm PERFECTLY PENGUIN BY WILDLIFE THEATER ¡MIL GRACIAS!: THE ART AND Dweck Center ILLUSTRATION OF JOHN PARRA Influences of world music, Saturday, Jan. 25, 1 pm Dweck Center Through April 13 jazz, classical, experimental Youth Wing techniques and electronics What can WE do to protect the blend together in this unique planet? Find out when Wildlife Parra’s artwork celebrates the collaboration. Theater takes participants into resplendent fabric of Latino culture, our oceans to explore cause & with stories about its important effect. heroes, its visual traditions of mural- making and artisanal craft, its food, CLASSICAL and of course the beauty of the INTERLUDES Spanish language. Sundays at 4 pm Dweck Center 90-SECOND NEWBERY COMIC CON FILM FESTIVAL Saturday, March 14, 1 pm Ayane Kozasa, Saturday, Feb. 22, 1 pm Dweck Center Melissa Reardon, Dweck Center Children, Teens, and Adults GREEN SERIES Raman Ramakrishnan & Kid filmmakers create weird are welcome to celebrate Paul Wiancko ARONOFF, BATTISTONI, short movies that tell the the universality in comics Feb. 9 COHEN & RIOFRANCOS ON entire stories of Newbery and pop-nerd culture. A PLANET TO WIN KOTCHEGNA: Award-winning books in DANCE TRADITIONS FROM Echoes of Rhythm: A Tribute Thursday, April 30, 6:30 pm about 90 seconds. IVORY COAST THE CAT IN THE HAT BY THE to Randy Weston with Min Greenpoint Library BOOK LAUNCH Saturday, Feb. 29, 1 pm NATIONAL THEATRE Xiao-Fen, Maalam Hassan In the 21st century, all politics RISE! FROM CAGED BIRD TO POET Benjaafar & Alex Blake are climate politics. The STOMP, CLAP & SING Dweck Center Saturday, March 28, 1 pm OF THE PEOPLE, MAYA ANGELOU Dancers performing in Feb. 16 age of climate gradualism Tuesdays at 11 am Dweck Center AUTHOR BETHANY HEGEDUS & elaborate masks to the is over, as unprecedented ILLUSTRATOR TONYA ENGEL Dweck Center Everyone’s favorite cat Cassatt String Quartet with disasters are exacerbated by explosive percussion of a comes to mischievous life in guest Peter Weitzner inequalities of race and class. Saturday, Feb. 8, 1 pm Louie Miranda corps of brilliant drummers. this theatrical adaptation of March 15 Dweck Center Jan. 14 the Dr. Seuss classic. In celebration of the 50th BEE PARKS & THE HORNETS ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S PRESENTS Lucy Kalantari & MUSIC IN COLOR: anniversary of the publication Saturday, March 7, 1 pm of I Know Why the Caged Bird the Jazz Cats ELEANOR ALBERGA Jan. 28 Dweck Center Saturday, April 25, 4 pm Sings. The Hornets perform high- Dweck Center Conroy Warren energy shows that combine LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION Feb. 11 rockin’ music, puppetry, and A British composer of NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY Jamaican descent, Alberga is Shine & the Moonbeams audience participation. Saturday, Feb. 15, 1 pm Sybarite 5 prolific in nearly every genre, Feb. 25 Dweck Center March 29 from opera and choral works A colorful and vibrant to pieces for both chamber Rita Rosa production of dance and music No children under six will ensemble and full orchestra. March 10 be permitted. to delight the whole family. Cara Samantha March 24 BPLPresents @BPL_Presents @bplpresents
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Brooklyn Public Library gratefully acknowledges the Call or visit bklynlibrary.org/support many donors who have provided generous support to learn about the many ways you can for BPL Presents programs, including: Cheryl and support Brooklyn Public Library. George Haywood Endowment for Cultural Diversity, The Kahn Endowment for Humanities Programs, Donor Support & Monthly Giving Dr. Beverly S. Jacobs, Janet Anderson, Todd Elizabeth Morrel Ferguson, The Miriam Katowitz and Arthur Radin 718.230.2462 Fund, Los Blancos, Mapleton Endowment, New York [email protected] State Council on the Arts, Stavros Niarchos Individual & Planned Giving Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Lauren Arana Affairs, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, 718.230.2009 Sandra and Peter Schubert Endowment Fund, Laurie [email protected] M. Tisch Illumination Fund, The Weissman Family Foundation, Inc., Cultural Services of the French Corporate Partnerships Embassy, City Point, WarnerMedia, the Estate of Samantha Dodds Pearl S. Reuillard in memory of her parents Yetta 718.230.2718 and Louis Schwartz and many other generous [email protected] supporters. Foundation & Government Grants Noella Scott Programs are also supported by Brooklyn Public 718.230.2087 Library’s Fund for the Humanities which was [email protected] established through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Hearst General Inquiries Foundation, Inc., Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, [email protected] The Starr Foundation, the Leon and Muriel Gilbert Charitable Trust, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc. Brooklyn Public Library gratefully acknowledges and a gift in memory of Samuel and Pauline Wine. the generous support of our corporate donors (fiscal year 2019–2020). WNYC is a media partner of the 2020 BPL Presents Season.
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