Spotlight On
A rotating showcase for topics of interest: current, historical, local, global. At the Library,
find a physical display highlighting materials in the collection that deepen one’s
understanding of and give context to the featured subject.
“Spotlight On” is also home to “Staff Picks,” where patrons will find reading, viewing,
and listening recommendations, and a forum for book clubs and other groups
in the community to share what they’re enjoying.
Dr Kenneth and Dr Mamie Clark
In commemoration of the panels being displayed in the school area, here are a few of the items in the Library’s collection pertaining to the Drs. Clark.
-Michael McCoy, Reference Librarian
Toward Humanity and Justice: The Writings of Kenneth B. Clark
Kenneth B. Clark
A collection of essays by Dr Clark on social science, education, politics, and the law.
Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center
Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
The story of the Drs. Clark and their Northside Center for Childhood Development.
What the Children Told Us
Tim Spofford
The story of the psychological test that played a pivotal role in the Supreme Court’s Brown vs Board of Education case.
Mamie Phipps Clark Champion for Children
Lynnette Mawhinney
A young person’s graphic novel about Mamie Clark and her role as a groundbreaking psychologist and civil rights activist.
Key English Translations of The Odyssey
The Odyssey has been translated over 60 times that we know about. The language, an oral tradition, of ancient Homeric Greek was inaccessible but for very few scholars. Samuel Butler’s (1835-1902) version of The Odyssey is well regarded. Butler argued that Homer (10th century BCE) was a Sicilian woman. In Homer’s time parts of Sicily were controlled by Greek city-states. Then again, there are those who study Homer’s work are not sure he was one man. A thousand years ago Homer’s work was spoken and sung. The Greek Chorus was real.
When The Byzantine Empire and Arabians saved and translated the writing of ancient Greece, Homer was left out of that movement, but the Byzantines eventually made ancient Greek part of their educational system and embraced the text.
The Odyssey was not “discovered” as a lost artifact by a single individual; instead, it was brought to Western Europe and translated into Latin by Renaissance scholars.
-Regina Kelly, Reference Librarian
The Odyssey
George Chapman (1615)
The first complete English translation, written in rhymed iambic pentameter.
The Odyssey of Homer
Richmond Lattimore (1965)
Renowned for its tight, scholarly fidelity to the original Greek text.
The Odyssey
Robert Fitzgerald (1961)
Famous for its lyrical, melodic flow that reads naturally aloud.
The Odyssey
Robert Fagles (1996)
The Odyssey
Emily Wilson (2017)
The Odyssey
Samuel Butler (1900)
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Meet Libby, the library reading app that has now replaced the OverDrive app. Upgrade to Libby today. You’ll find the same great titles and all of your loans, holds, and wish list items waiting for you. Watch a video about Libby to get started.
The New York State Department of Labor is partnering with Coursera to offer free classes to unemployed New Yorkers.
Visit Westchester Library System’s website for Seniors to see library programs and services just for seniors. This includes information on VisionLabs, a program designed to find new ways for libraries to serve patrons with visual impairments and emerging vision loss.
The Television News Archive, launched September 2012, is an archive of hundreds of thousands of hours of news programming from 20 different networks, made sharable and searchable through closed captioning data. Follow this link to check it out.
The Internet Archive’s Democracy’s Library is working to provide free and open access to government materials in an online catalog for the public.
You can now turn your smart phone into a mobile PDF scanner! Download the free Adobe Scan app and scan any text, convert to PDF or JPEG, edit and share easily.