Articles and Databases

Contains the works of 42 poets comprising 124 volumes of poetry.

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Includes content from more than 20,000 news sources, including newspapers, TV transcripts, newswires, and business magazines.

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Provides links to quotation, proverb, aphorism, and slogan sites, and the means for searching particular types of quotes.

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Digitized full-text family histories. 

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Produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), this site searches genealogical records worldwide including Ancestral Files, International Genealogical Index, and census and other vital statistics sources.

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National statistics from the U.S. Federal Government in the areas of Agriculture, Education, Income, Natural Resources, Crime, Energy, Labor, Safety, Demographics, Environment, National Accounts, Transportation, Economic, and Health.

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Formerly known as Film/TV Documentation Collections, FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs. It is an essential reference work for any film researcher.

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Use this readers advisory tool to discover titles similar to books you already enjoy.

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Film & Television Literature Index is the definitive index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.

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Includes Film Index International (British Film Institute) and the AFI Catalog (American Film Institute), covering all eras of filmmaking from the early silents to recent box-office hits.

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Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other scholarly and popular periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.

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A section of the International Film Archive database produced by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), which contains information about the holdings of more than 145 of the world's foremost film archives, libraries, and educational institutions.

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Industry profiles which include industry overview, recent developments, business challenges, trends and opportunities, executive insight, call preparation questions, financial information, industry ratio's, industry forecast and rating, web links and acronyms. Print, or save information.

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Searchable digitized images of millions of historical primary documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents, many from the National Archives.

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 The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.

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This series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. This online version runs from 1861-1960 with missing volumes being added when possible.

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Foundation Directory Online was developed by the Foundation Center, a nonprofit organization founded over 50 years ago to open up U.S. foundations to public view.

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Basic information about private and community foundations within the U.S.

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Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is an online database of nearly 10,000 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.

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Through this website you can read and search through the correspondence and other writings of six major shapers of the United States: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Over 119,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative, federally funded Founding Fathers Papers projects.

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Freedman's Bank Records are a great source for genealogists researching their African American heritage. This database is an index to registers of signatures of depositors and includes images of the original documents.

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Dynamic e-books from Scholastic brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments in American history. 

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Freegal is downloadable music service which provides access to the catalog of artists in Sony Music Entertainment. Library cardholders can download three songs a week with their barcode and pin number. Freegal works with any MP3 device, including iPods. The New York Public Library's subscription to Freegal Music is generously supported by a grant from Community Funds, Inc. -- the Robert R. Asiel Memorial Fund. Works best if used with Firefox or Chrome. 

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A searchable repository of old newspapers published in New York State, between 1795 and 2007. Includes Old Fulton NY Postcards, a collection of digitized images recording the history of Fulton, NY.

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Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

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