Dedicated in the memory of Patricia Warburg Cliff’s son, Kenneth, the Kenneth Johnson Memorial Research Library (KJM Library) serves the research needs and reading pleasure of consumers and their families, professionals in the field, and the general public. Located in the NAMI-NYC Metro office, the library is home to over 1,000 reference materials, self-help books, autobiographies, educational videos and four computers equipped with Internet access.

Note: Library hours are subject to change. Please call prior to visiting.

The library is open to the public. However, only NAMI-NYC Metro members have borrowing privileges. To join, please click here.

You can download a full list of current titles in the library here.

See a video from Barnes & Noble's award-winning series "Book Obsessed" with library founder Patricia Warburg Cliff here.

Ken Book Awards

The Ken Book Awards are given annually for outstanding books of literary merit published during the prior year that have substantially contributed to the public’s awareness and better understanding of mental disorders.

The 2010 Ken Book Awards were held on May 19, 2010. Read the press release. [PDF]

Award winners for books published in 2009 are:

Helen Benedict, The Lonely Solder (Beacon Press); David Finkel, The Good Soldiers (Sarah Crichton Books); Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf); Christopher Payne, The Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals (The MIT Press); William Styron, The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps (Random House) (posthumous award); John Wray, Lowboy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

The keynote speaker at the 2010 Ken Book Awards was Charles R. Marmar, MD, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU Langone Medical Center.

For a list of prior winners, click here.

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