Spring has Sprung at SPCL!

If you've been the library recently, you'll notice that the front area has changed a bit! We are just on the cusp of inaugurating our new SPARK SPACE - a Seward Park Campus Library Makerspace. We've been doing a soft launch with classes to see how we can build projects around crafts. This Friday, our interns will be trained by MakerSpaceNYC who has been helping us to build out our space. Stay tuned for our official launch, but here's a taste of what's to come!

Because of an expired contracts, school libraries across the cities had to wait awhile to get their new books this year. We are happy to say that last week, we processed 15 boxes of new books for the library (and that's not even all of our order)! Come browse our "NEW ARRIVALS" which have been conveniently placed around the library so that you don't miss them!

We're finally searchable on Spotify and Apple Podcasts as "Spark Studio"! We'll be uploading episodes as YOU record them, and we produce them. Give us a follow today!

• Spotify Channel
• Apple Podcasts

In partnership with City Lore, a NYC-based non-profit organization focused on the preservation of the immigrant cultures of NYC, and a grant from the Library of Congress, our library interns are working with teaching artist/activist, Yadira De La Riva to come up with passive programming stationed throughout our library to promote curiosity and exploration into the stories that are housed here. Through a mix of performance, oral recordings, photos, etc. students are creating little installations to put in sections of the library to help students dive deeper into a topic which interests them. Interns will be visiting the Museum of the City of New York to see how they cultivate passive programming through informative videos and realia and thinking about how to bring that into our library all in hopes to promote reading and curiosity.

Do you want to read, but wish you could do it with friends? Join our staff or student book club! It's a great way to jump start what it takes to dive in to a really good book, and if the conversation meanders, why not? That's what book club is all about! Stop by the library to sign up!

Do you hear that click clack? I know I do! Join the Mahjong Club after school on Thursdays and Fridays and learn how to play the newest craze! We have some tricky players already. The learning curve is lower than you'd think so come and join in on the fun!

We have a packed schedule with Yu&Me Books this season. Look below to see some of the upcoming events. All members of Seward Park Campus receive a 10% discount on books sold at the events!

• 4/1 - Vicky Nguyen's Boat Baby in conversation with Hoda Kotb
• 4/29 - Claire Ahn's Bad Influence in conversation with Ruth Chan (YA BOOK!)
• 5/6 - Jemimah Wei's The Original Daughter in conversation with Roxane Gay
• 5/21 - Daniel Tam-Claiborne's Transplants in conversation with Elysha Chang

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Website: https://www.sewardparkcampuslibrary.org/
Location: 350 Grand Street, New York, NY, USA
Phone: 212-475-4148