Learning at the Library

Summer Seminars

Each summer, the Library offers seminars for K-12 educators. Announcements for our 2008 program will be posted in January. Find programming information about past seminars below. See also the Summer Seminars for High School Teachers at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

2008 Seminar: Create Your Own Exhibition!

The Library is offering a $1,000 stipend to eight NYC area teachers to curate an online exhibition using materials from the NYPL. Details here

Past Summer Seminars

Summer 2007

My Neighborhood Past & Present
A summer seminar for elementary and middle school educators at The New York Public Library

Using the collections of The New York Public Library, especially the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division and the Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History & Genealogy, teachers will create their own collection of historical photographs, restaurant menus, maps, aerial views and other materials tracing the history of their school's neighborhood. Created with support from the The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation.

Summer 2006

What They Were Wearing: Clothing and Social Revolution
A One Week Summer Institute for Public High School Educators in New York City

What They Were Wearing: Clothing and Social Revolution is a thirty-five hour institute for Social Studies teachers in New York City’s public schools that will use clothing and other cultural objects and primary source materials as a way of locking the history social revolution.

 

The New York Public Library thanks the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation for supporting these programs.