When: Thursday, October 12
Where: New York Public Library, Trustees Room #206, 42nd St. & Fifth Ave., NYC
What time: 6 p.m.
Event info: Space is limited, and RSVPs required: fischkinb@aol.com
The PEN Writers' Roundtable Series will host a special meeting on utilizing the New York Public Library. If you are a writer whose work requires research, come meet Reference Librarian David Smith to learn how you can take advantage of resources at the NYPL. There will be a tour of library rooms available especially to writers, as well as a discussion of using the NYPL's general and special collections, useful library databases available from home, (including the library's online catalog, CATNYP and OCLC Worldcat), the Cullman Fellowship Program for Writers and Scholars, inter-library loan services, and referrals to academic and specialized libraries in the NYC area.
The PEN Writers' Roundtable Series is open to all working writers in the NYC area. PEN Membership is not required.
David Smith has been a Reference Librarian in the Humanities in the New York Public Library's General Reference Division for almost 30 years. He answers questions at the reference desk in the Main Catalog Room, and has been especially useful to authors, journalists, historians, and documentarians by expediting use of the NYPL, and also by networking extensively with other librarians and researchers around the country. Some of the writers he has helped include Ian Frazier, Edna O'Brien, Nick Tosches, David Margolick, Deborah Davis, Jeremy Schaap, Nina Burleigh, and Sam Roberts.
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