Photos From New York Public Library

Are you vacationing out of town this summer? If you are and happen to visit a unique, interesting local library, please take pictures and send them to us. We might feature them here in the newsletter and our website!

This month we received photos from Laurel Davis who visited two public libraries in New York City recently. She went on a tour of the Schwarzman Research library in Manhattan. The tour was led by volunteer and Friends of New York Public Library member named Hilda, whom Davis said gave a very thorough history of the library’s historic building.

Davis also said she visited the Schomberg Center for Black Culture, another research library in Harlem, which is currently hosting a yearlong exhibit on the black power movement. This library is best known to be the final resting place of writer Langston Hughes, whose ashes are buried underneath the center’s atrium named after him. According to the Schomberg’s website, the floor design of the Langston Hughes Lobby “is marked by a brass cosmogram bearing song lines, texts, and literary signs paying ancestral tribute in the tradition of African ritual ground markings, weaving a web of connections between people of diverse cultures and backgrounds, the past and the present.”

See the slideshow here.