New York Public Library - Main Building (Taken with Instagram)
Free MP3 Downloads From New York Public Library
The NYPL recently launched a Freegal (free & legal) service which allows members to download three MP3 songs per week through an agreement with Sony Music (see artists). Songs are DRM-free and play on any MP3 player, inc. mobile phones and iPads. After reaching your three-song limit this week, mark tunes on a wishlist for later downloading.
New York Public Library's Mad Men Reading List
NYPL keeps a list of books referenced in Mad Men and smartly links each title to its catalog. The current list:
- Meditations in an Emergency - Frank O’Hara
- The Best of Everything - Rona Jaffe
- Confessions of an Advertising Man - David Ogilvy
- Babylon Revisited and Other Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Chrysanthemum and the Sword - Ruth Benedict
- Exodus - Leon Uris
- Ship of Fools - Katherine Ann Porter
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
- The Group - Mary Mccarthy
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
