Responding To Disaster
Turkey and Syria continue to deal with the terrible impact of earthquakes. Read our blog to find out what you can do to help support natural disaster relief.
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It is the mission of Brooklyn Public Library to ensure the preservation and transmission of society's knowledge, history and culture, and to provide the people of Brooklyn with free and open access to information for education, recreation and reference.
As an independent system, separate from the New York City and Queens libraries, Brooklyn Public Library serves the borough's 2.5 million residents, offering thousands of public programs, millions of books and use of more than 1,100 free Internet-accessible computers. Just some of the many things you can do at BPL:
And much more. It's free - and it's at your doorstep in one of Brooklyn's 60 public libraries.