Research Catalog
The New York Public Library : a universe of knowledge
- Title
- The New York Public Library : a universe of knowledge / Phyllis Dain.
- Author
- Dain, Phyllis.
- Publication
- New York : New York Public Library in association with Scala Publishers, London; Wappingers' Falls, NY : Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors' Club Limited, c2000.
Items in the Library & Off-site
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Request in advance | *HND (NYPL) 01-5821 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | *OAC 02-9428 | Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-Map Div. Z733.N6 D35 2000 | Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 |
Text | Request in advance | *R-Slav. Div. 00-6663 | Offsite | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Desk-Print Room 09-2430 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
Text | Request in advance | Desk-Slav. Div. 00-6108 | Offsite | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Desk-USLHG Z733.N6 D35 2000 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Desk Room 121 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | Pub. Cat. Z733.N6 D35 2000 | Schwarzman Building - Public Catalog Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 144 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface / by Paul LeClerc -- Prelude -- 1. "A free library for the use of the people" : predecessors and founders -- A dream fulfilled, 1913-1945 -- 2. "Intellectual hospitality" : the research collections -- 3. "The sovereign hope of learning" : neighborhood library service -- Building libraries in a new world, 1945-2000 -- 4. "An empowering mechanism" : modernization and growth -- 5. "A metaphor for an ideal city" : creating a 21st-century library.
- Call Number
- Z733.N6
- ISBN
- 1857592344 (alk. paper)
- 9780871044501 (cloth ; ǂq alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00026758
- OCLC
- 43567583
- Author
- Dain, Phyllis.
- Title
- The New York Public Library : a universe of knowledge / Phyllis Dain.
- Imprint
- New York : New York Public Library in association with Scala Publishers, London; Wappingers' Falls, NY : Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors' Club Limited, c2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Pub. Cat. Z733.N6 D35 2000Desk-Slav. Div. 00-6108*R-Slav. Div. 00-6663Desk-USLHG Z733.N6 D35 2000*HND (NYPL) 01-5821*R-Map Div. Z733.N6 D35 2000*OAC 02-9428