To mark the 30th anniversary of his groundbreaking debut album, “Reasonable Doubt,” BPL’s programming broke museum attendance records.<\/p>\n
Earlier this summer,\u00a0Brooklyn Public Library<\/a>\u00a0marked\u00a0the 30th anniversary of Jay-Z\u2019s debut album, “Reasonable Doubt,” with a limited-edition library card and a curated book display at the Marcy Library in Bed-Stuy, according to Goodreader<\/a>.<\/p>\n The new card follows BPL\u2019s 2023 collaboration with Jay-Z and Roc Nation for The Book of HOV exhibition at Central Library. That exhibition attracted more than 600,000 visitors during its nearly five-month run and became one of the most attended exhibitions in the library\u2019s history.<\/p>\n More than 36,000 library card accounts were created during the run. Those accounts contributed to a 66 percent\u00a0increase in new accounts system-wide and a more than 300 percent\u00a0increase at Central Library.<\/p>\n At the Marcy Library, located near the Marcy Houses where Jay-Z grew up, visitors can also browse and borrow books from a curated reading list featuring titles that influenced the artist\u2019s life and career. The books were donated by Roc Nation and are displayed on a dedicated shelf at the branch.<\/p>\n The JA\u0178-Z 30 Limited Edition Library Card became available June 25 at Brooklyn Public Library on a first-come, first-served basis.\u00a0The card was created through BPL\u2019s collaboration with Jay-Z and Roc Nation as part of a yearlong celebration of “Reasonable Doubt,” which was released June 25, 1996.<\/p>\n The latest collaboration continues BPL\u2019s effort to connect Brooklyn\u2019s literary and cultural institutions with the history of one of the borough\u2019s best-known artists.<\/p>\n The Marcy Library display adds a neighborhood connection by highlighting books that helped shape Jay-Z\u2019s perspective and career.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To mark the 30th anniversary of his groundbreaking debut album, “Reasonable Doubt,” BPL’s programming broke museum attendance records.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,125890,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-334953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-jay-zbrooklyn-public-libraryreasonable-doubt","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}