New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Acquires Its First Hip-Hop Archive Michael Holman, the hip-hop impresario. “The library is placing hip-hop culture on the same pedestals as other established dance movements,” he said of the library’s acquisition of his archives.Credit...David Gonzalez/The New York Times The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses the archives of dance
Audrey Hepburn and Alfred H. Barr Jr. with a Picasso in 1957.Credit...Photography by Barry Kramer/The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York; 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York But a more complicated story has always been told by the hundreds of thousands of documents and photographs in the museum’s archives, a vast accumulation of historical detail that has been
Aaron Swartz in 2009. One person remembered him as “a complicated prodigy.”Credit...Michael Francis McElroy/The New York Times Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped develop code that delivered ever-changing Web content to users and who later became a steadfast crusader to make that information freely available, was found dead on Friday in his New York apartment. An uncle, Mi
At the bustling public library in Arlington Heights, Ill., requests by three patrons to place any title on hold prompt a savvy computer tracking system to order an additional copy of the coveted item. That policy was intended to eliminate the frustration of long waits to check out best sellers and other popular books. But it has had some unintended consequences, too: the library’s shelves are now
ON THE HUNT A bedbug-sniffing dog at a library in Wichita, Kan.Credit...Steve Hebert for The New York Times READING in bed, once considered a relatively safe pastime, is now seen by some as a riskier proposition. That’s because bedbugs have discovered a new way to hitchhike in and out of beds: library books. It turns out that tiny bedbugs and their eggs can hide in the spines of hardcover books. T
Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he founded and leads. “We want to collect all the books, music and video that has ever been produced by humans,” Mr. Kahle said. As of Tuesday, the archive’s online collection will include every morsel of news produced in the la
AKITA, JAPAN — Takuya Niiyama, a sophomore at Akita International University, dreams of becoming an international tourism operator promoting the northern Japanese prefecture of Akita, leveraging his hard-earned language skills and a network of international students he befriended on campus. Mr. Niiyama, who is from Akita, hopes that the university’s mandated one-year overseas exchange program will
The literary history of the typewriter has its well-established milestones, from Mark Twain producing the first typewritten manuscript with “Life on the Mississippi” to Truman Capote famously dismissing Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” pounded out on a 120-foot scroll, with the quip “That’s not writing, that’s typing.” The literary history of word processing is far murkier, but that isn’t stopping Ma
PARIS — When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When the museum opened an enhanced Web site with newly digitized versions of the scrolls in September, it drew a million virtual visitors in three and a half days. The scrolls, scanned with ultrahigh-resolution imaging
A respected Harvard researcher who also is an Internet folk hero has been arrested in Boston on charges related to computer hacking, which are based on allegations that he downloaded articles that he was entitled to get free. A federal indictment unsealed in Boston on Tuesday morning on charges that the researcher, Aaron Swartz, broke into the computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Te
A landmark library will be renamed for Stephen A. Schwarzman, shown above at the West 115th Street branch of the New York Public Library.Credit...Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times The New York Public Library’s venerable lion-guarded building on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street is to be renamed for the Wall Street financier Stephen A. Schwarzman, who has agreed to jump-start a $1 billion expansion
Library books are finally going to be compatible with the Kindle. Amazon said on Wednesday that it would allow Kindle users to read e-books from more than 11,000 public libraries on the devices beginning later this year, a reversal of the company’s previous policy. “We’re excited that millions of Kindle customers will be able to borrow Kindle books from their local libraries,” Jay Marine, director
Cambridge, Mass. ON Tuesday, Denny Chin, a federal judge in Manhattan, rejected the settlement between Google, which aims to digitize every book ever published, and a group of authors and publishers who had sued the company for copyright infringement. This decision is a victory for the public good, preventing one company from monopolizing access to our common cultural heritage. Nonetheless, we sho
South Koreans watched breaking news of the North's launching at a Seoul train station.Credit...Kim Jae-Hwan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images SEOUL, South Korea � North Korea defied the United States, China and a series of United Nations resolutions by launching a rocket on Sunday that the country said was designed to propel a satellite into space, but that much of the world viewed as an effort
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