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    • Study Room Availability
      (policy updated 12/20/2022)

       

      Our COVID-19 response (latest update 10/7/2022)

       

      Black Literature Matters

      TODAY AT THE LIBRARY

      • Member Orientation (1/30/23 session)

      Upcoming Events

      • Livestream: Devoney Looser, Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
      • Young Writers' Workshop: Poetry Café with Ellen Hagan
      • The Writing Life: Prompt! In Person with Carol Weston
      NEW BOOKS LIST
       

      Book Recommendations

      • Hop to It! Our Favorite Bunny Books
      • What We Read in 2022

      Library Blog

      Grace Notes: Thoughts on Thanks by Janice P. Nimura
      January 23, 2023
      Woman - Life - Freedom: Human Rights in Iran and Elsewhere
      January 19, 2023
      The first - not necessarily best - American novel
      January 18, 2023

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The Library offers e-books, online audiobooks, reference works, magazines, and scholarly journals inside the building and remotely.

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General Reference

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Journals, Newspapers, and Periodicals

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Arts and Literature

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  • London Review of Books
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  • Oxford Art Online
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  • The Times Literary Supplement

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History and Biography

  • American Founding Era Collection
  • American National Biography
  • City Readers: Digital Historic Collections at the New York Society Library
  • Historical Statistics of the United States
  • Marquis Who's Who
  • NYC Marriage & Death Notices 1836-1868
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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