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Also, watch this LIVE from NYPL video, where Morrison discusses races and writing with author, Junot Diaz.

On September 19, 1796, the nation’s first President bid farewell to his “friends and fellow citizens.” The New York Public Library has his final draft of his remarks before they were printed and shared with the American public. You can read the address in a flip book on the Library’s Digital Collections site - it’s a good day to be inspired by the United States’ founding father.

Brush up your Shakespeare! Start quoting him now.

Abraham Lincoln (via nypl)

I’m a librarian’s daughter. I know the Dewey Decimal System, and I am familiar with the Library of Congress classification system because it’s used by Baltimore’s public library, the Enoch Pratt. My fiction is alphabetized by author, divided between adult and children’s literature, hardcover and paperback. I let my husband organize the nonfiction. It breaks my heart, but I let him.

I’m a librarian’s daughter. I know the Dewey Decimal System, and I am familiar with the Library of Congress classification system because it’s used by Baltimore’s public library, the Enoch Pratt. My fiction is alphabetized by author, divided between adult and children’s literature, hardcover and paperback. I let my husband organize the nonfiction. It breaks my heart, but I let him.