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Research Guides: General

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    A Writer's Resource

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    Aggregator Database Issues (PDF)

    A Suggested Reading List compiled by the Science, Industry and Business Library.

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    BiblioCommons: Getting Started: Registration * (PDF)

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    Book Reviews

    Book reviews provide summaries, contemporary criticism, and succinct evaluations about published works. Here are a few ways to track down reviews at the Library.

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    BOOKS: Sources for Book Values and Book Collecting

    A brief guide to appraising and evaluating antiquarian books and other literary properties through resources available in the Rose Main Reading Room, through the Selected Electronic Resources Menu, and online from home.

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    Dictionary Catalog

    The 800-volume Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1972, also known as the "black books" or "retrospective" catalog, contains records of books and periodicals acquired by the Library prior to 1972. It is a photographic copy, in book form, of the Library's card catalog.

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    Digital Photography Bibliography * (PDF)

    An annotated list of resources — professional, technical, legal etc. — for digital photographers.

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    Earth Day Bibliography * (PDF)

    This list of books, websites and related materials pays homage to the mother planet and recognizes her challenges for the future.

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    Einstein in the Library * (PDF)

    A guide to Einstein resources at the Library and on the web; compiled on April, 2005, the 100th anniversary of the month in which Albert Einstein described a dramatic combination of energy, mass and the speed of light into what would become the only physics formula, E=mc², recognized worldwide by scientists and nonscientists alike.

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    Finding Book Reviews at Mid-Manhattan Library

    An overview of book review-related resources at General Reference Service at Mid-Manhattan Library.

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    Green Building Bibliography * (PDF)

    A one-stop shop of green building resources: architecture, technology, activism etc.

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    History of Books and Printing

    The New York Public Library has a world renowned collection of physical artifacts documenting the historical development of written forms of communication. The following guide will attempt to provide direction to the appropriate source material within the General Research Division.

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    How Do I Find a Book?

    All the basics on finding a book via our online catalog and beyond.

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    How to Find Periodicals

    A guide to the approximately 15,000 periodical subscriptions at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

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    Inventors Guide to NYPL Resources (PDF)

    A wide-ranging resource guide to would-be inventors at the New York Public Library, whose science reading rooms have hatched innovations such as the Polaroid camera and the Xerox machine.

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    Library Lingo

    All professions have a way of describing what they do in terms that may not be commonly understood by those who don't work with them daily. This glossary attempts to demystify terms used to describe the collections, catalogs, and procedures at the New York Public Library. Some of these are ideosyncratic to NYPL, but many are common to libraries and the information world at large.

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    Newspapers

    The newspaper collection of The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library brings the whole world, present and past, under your eyes: from the Bradford’s New-York Gazette (the first paper published in New York City in 1725) to the Yiddish Forverts, from the Denver Post to the South China Morning Post. It is an outstanding collection of free and easy-to-use primary sources available to all users. This guide focuses on the holdings of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

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    Nietzsche: A Selected Annotated Bibliography

    A richly detailed roadmap to the work and influence of one of the world's most consequential philosophers.

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    Obituaries, Death Notices, and Guides to Burial Places of Notables

    Documents of death often breathe new life into historical and biographical research. This guide will get you started on your trip to the underworld.

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    Periodical Index Resources at the Mid-Manhattan Library (PDF)

    A guide to periodical resources, print and electronic, at Mid-Manhattan Library.

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