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Reports that in 1999 the New York Public Library (NYPL) acquired the archives of the upstate New York artists' retreat known as Yaddo. Items included in the collection such as manuscripts and paintings; Artists associated with Yaddo such as Truman Capote and Aaron Copland.

Reports that New York Public Library (NYPL) leaders and city politicians gathered for a virtual tour of the design for the Lincoln Center's Library of the Performing Arts (LPA). LPA undergoing a two-year, $30 million renovation; Improvements to the renovated library.

The article offers a look at the digital image gallery debuted by the New York Public Library (NYPL). On March 3, the NYPL launched an online gallery of 275,000 images from its vast collection, accessible via its web site at no charge. Treasures in the NYPL Digital Gallery (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org) include Civil War photos, New York City historical items, 16th-century maps of North America, sheet music covers, floor plans of prewar apartments, Yiddish theater placards, Japanese prints, menus, Russian civil war posters, theater photos, and more. NYPL president Paul Le Clerc told LJ that the nexus of the project dates back to 1999. Users can tackle the massive trove by browsing broad topics, collections, subject words, or names and searching by keyword(s) or identification number. The library's Digital Imaging Unit has produced high-resolution scans or digital photos of 200,000 items. Additional images were digitized by outside contractors. Another team created metadata for each item, making sure that title, creator, date, medium, subject, collection name, and a link to the library's catalog record are attached to each entry. Le Clerc says use of the gallery has been "colossal--four million hits the first day," with roughly 3.5 million hits daily since then. "We've been running 800 million hits a year on the NYPL web site, and I think this year we'll hit one billion," said Le Clerc.

Announces that a grant from the Helena Rubenstein Foundation will place copies of titles in The Library of America series in New York City public libraries. Authors to appear in the series.

Focuses on videotape lending services at public libraries in two major cities in the United States. Blackhawk Films' donation of a collection of videotapes to the San Francisco Public Library in California; Lack of machine standardization at the New York Public Library in New York City.