This issue includes
New Audiobook Downloads | Illuminated Manuscripts | Early January Events
Announcements

Watch your inbox on Wednesday, December 12 for the announcement of our winter events!

To better match our users' needs, we're introducing new membership categories as of January 1. Head Librarian Carolyn Waters provides a rundown of what's new and what we're working on.

Are you new? The New Members' Party's for you! - tonight, December 3, 6:00 PM. Contact Diane Srebnick for more information.
One-Question Survey
 
Melvil Dewey rises from the grave and offers you a million dollars IF you get a Dewey Decimal-themed tattoo. What call number do you choose to ink on? VOTE HERE .

Last month we asked what canonical book you find totally overrated. As before, our readers rose to the occasion. Out of 55 responses:

Other answers inc luded Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man , “anything by Henry James ,” and - from two people - “The Bible.”
News and Links

The Library now offers audiobook downloads via the Cloud Library. This new and growing collection features a variety of favorite authors old and new, including Children’s and Young Adult titles. Browse the Cloud Library here and look for the audio shelves. For more information on downloading e-books and audiobooks from the Cloud Library, go here. 

The Children's Library offer wonderful gift suggestions for every young reader on your list, from toddlers to teens.



We greeted trick-or-treaters in a range of literature-inspired costumes this Halloween.
THE WRITING LIFE - FOR MEMBERS ONLY
SPECIAL EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
WORKSHOP - FOR MEMBERS ONLY
TECHNOLOGY - FOR MEMBERS ONLY
HAPPY HOUR - FOR MEMBERS ONLY
SPECIAL EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
LECTURE - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
CHILDREN'S EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
WRITING LIFE SPECIAL EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ALSO OF INTEREST
Library Artist in the New York Times
Library events staffer and professional cartoonist Katie Fricas is in the New York Times Book Review ! - celebrating what would have been poet’s Anne Sexton's 90th birthday in November.
Necromancers of the Public Domain
Each month, the Necromancers pluck a long-forgotten volume from the shelves of the New York Society Library and resurrect it as a low-budget variety show.

This month:
Christmas in Art by Frederick Keppell (1909).
Monday, December 10, 8:00 PM
The Tank, 312 West 36th Street

Metropolitan Playhouse presents Shadow of Heroes by Robert Ardrey
Based on the inspiring true history of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956: three friends, lovers, and fighters - devoted to a better future for all mankind - face political foes and their own crises of faith as they inspire a nation to defy its oppressors. Their journey from underground fighters to national leaders to martyrs accused of treason is a subtle and powerful portrait of lofty ideals and their betrayal. New York Society Library members are invited to purchase discounted tickets with code NYSL. More information and tickets here.
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