The Humanities and Social Sciences Library of the NYPL, now called the Stephen A Schwarzman Building, is one of my favorite places on earth. In grad school I spent hundreds of hours in the Rose Reading Room alternately taking notes from volumes found no where else on the East Coast or waiting for my number to light up on the screen to annouce that my books have made it up from the stacks. Sheer heaven. This video, How to Research a Building – NTPL Insight, gives a glimpse of what makes this place, it’s collections, and it’s staff so special. It is nominated for Best Humanities Video.
Join Vincenzo Rutigliano of the NYPL’s Art and Architecture Department as he presents a mini class on, wait for it… How to research a building using the department’s resources. This is a pretty common assignment for Architecture, Art History, and Urban Planning students and Rutigliano shows, in a fun, engaging way, how to leverage his collection’s depth to find information.
I think I’m going to find a way to work pirates into all of my classes.
Hitchcock
Coppola
Iñárritu
