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    • Study Room Availability

       

      Our COVID-19 response (latest update 5/18/2022)

       

      Black Literature Matters

      Upcoming Events

      • Gallery Talk: Fabulous Fashion (Tuesdays at 11:00 AM)
      • Writing Life Workshop: The Editor Is In: An Interactive Seminar with Walter Bode (6/30/22 session)
      • Closing: Independence Day
      NEW BOOKS LIST
       

      Book Recommendations

      • TRUMAN IN THE ROUND by Jeffrey Frank
      • Some Thoughts on Street Photography & Related Matters, by Jeffrey Saldinger
      • Books on Ukraine and Russia

      Library Blog

      LGBTQIA+ Pride Month 2022: A List of Recent Arrivals
      June 08, 2022
      The Book Beautiful opens at WVU!
      June 08, 2022
      Summer 2022: A List of Forthcoming Books
      June 06, 2022
      June is Caribbean Heritage Month!
      June 01, 2022
      A Watershed Year for the New York City Book Awards
      May 27, 2022

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

Membership is required for access to many of these resources.

For assistance, ask at the reference desk or email reference@nysoclib.org.

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General Reference

  • Chicago Manual of Style
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Journals, Newspapers, and Periodicals

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  • Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

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Arts and Literature

  • American Book Prices Current
  • Book Review Index Plus
  • Books in Print
  • Loeb Classical Library
  • London Review of Books
  • Masterplots
  • New York Review of Books
  • Oxford Art Online
  • Oxford Music Online
  • 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
  • Project MUSE History E-books

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