NYPL Puts Its 'Treasures' Online

I'm not sure how I missed this article in USA Today the other day but since I obviously did, let me correct matters:

The New York Public Library quietly rolled out a new video series last month. Titled "Treasures," it showcases 11 gems of the library's vast collection of more than 50 million items.

And since then it has joined Facebook, broadening an online reach that already included YouTube and iTunes pages to gain more of an audience — which, for one of the world's largest public libraries, includes "everybody from preschool toddlers to the greatest writers in the world," says president Paul LeClerc.

Curators and administrators whittled a list of hundreds of ideas to record videos of the most "visually grabbing," says director David Ferriero.

The library has made the videos available on its site, nypl.org, as well as on YouTube— where its photography piece is by far its most popular with more than 13,000 views. The video, "Knowing What to See" is the only one featuring current events: the drug trade in Afghanistan as photographed by Stephen Dupont.

His works "you can appreciate both aesthetically and for its relevance in what's happening in the world today," curator Stephen Pinson says in the video, comparing it to photos from the Civil Rights Movement and the Great Depression.

The rest of the article is here and you should take a look at the website at NY Public.  Enjoy!

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