“Tell your story. People want to hear your story.” My friend, Al Baccari Stories are the thread that weaves between generations: A mother’s tale, a father’s anecdote; a family’s saga. We each bear a story, guardians of our past. History reminds us that we are accountable now and later; it is in the looking back that we can plan forward. Each story is a thread, and the threads weave together to create the patchwork quilt blanketing our community, nurturing our young, asking them each to one day add their particular stitch to the story. The story-tellers, sages of the ages, the historians who protect our glorious and sometimes sorted pasts,…

Innovation Strategy & Roadmap: Reading the Future with Ray-Ban Metaglasses   The Idea Using Ray-Ban MetaGlasses we will create a reading lab to support our literacy volunteers in teaching children and adults alike to read, or sharpen their reading skills. This technology can also read to those with low vision who can no longer read to themselves, easily expanding the documents available to non-sighted patrons. According to the ALA, 7% (12 million) Americans suffer vision impairment, with that number set to double by 2050. (2025). Ray-Ban MetaGlasses (herein referred to as “metaglasses” or “the glasses”) are available with clear, non-prescription glass. The glasses require very little training, and can be…

Consider NYPL’s launch of InstaNovels: digital novels presented through Instagram. In short, it is a graphic novel experience in an animated format. New stories and classics both in a new-wave format. At first, I scoffed, and then I reflected: my older son, now 13, struggled to find his way to reading anything half his lifetime ago. While other parents “humbly bragged” about how many books their little geniuses had devoured, I was struggling to get this kid away from Flat Stanley readers, which were, frankly, boring. And then DogMan (Dav Pilkey) arrived. At first, I hated it: endless comic strips of a dog policeman. But night after night my son…