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Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library

By Daphna Blatt & Dr. E.K. Maloney
Dr. James O. Pawelski & Dr. Katherine N. Cotter

The NYPL’s Strategy and Public Impact team and the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project at the UPenn's Positive Psychology Center have released a new report as part of an ongoing collaboration to study and advocate for the role of public libraries in the communities they serve.

https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/libraries-well-being-report

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A Celebrated Librarian’s Concealed Life

Known as the “soul of the Morgan,” Belle da Costa Greene established the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection and lived as a “passing” Black woman in the early 20th century.

By Alexandra M. Thomas

https://hyperallergic.com/1001007/celebrated-librarian-belle-da-costa-greene-concealed-life-morgan-library/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Scholars%20Boycott%20Columbia%20University&utm_campaign=D040725

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