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The New York Public Library. Explore 1,059,024 items digitized from The New York Public Library 's collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. Our collections include some content that may be harmful or difficult to view.
- Collections
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the...
- Divisions
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the...
- The Green Book
In 1936 the Green Book was only a local publication for...
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Apply for a Library Card Online. New York residents can apply for a library card online and gain access to an array of digital resources—including e-books, audiobooks, databases, and more. Plus, patrons can visit an NYPL location and upgrade their card status to borrow physical materials.
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- At-Risk Digitization
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Description democratizes access. Our patrons can find library resources because they are cataloged, and they can only find our digital collections when they are adequately described. We are working to remove obstacles to descriptive processes, making time-based media available online at a pace not previously possible. These changes will benefit all...
We steward one of the world’s greatest collections of time-based media, from Lou Reed’s demo recordings to Sonny Rollins’s rehearsal tapes and from Martha Graham’s dances to rare newsreels and films documenting the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. While we can provide remote access to paper and still image collections through our services, we have no m...
In 2014, NYPL launched its Audio and Moving Image (“AMI”) Initiative, a large-scale effort to preserve, digitize, and create access to time-based media that is at risk of permanent loss through media degradation and technology obsolescence. As of December 2020, the Library has identified more than 400,000 rare, unique, or at-risk items, and invento...
Since 2017, we’ve received grants to transcribe the class A registrations from the 1923–77 Catalog of Copyright Entries, a list of all copyrights published by the US Copyright Office. By transcribing the 87,920 pages of these records—and making that data set publicly available and user-friendly—we can identify and make freely available thousands of...
Jul 5, 2018 · After being out of commission for more than a year and a half, North York Central Library (NYCL) reopens today with a fresh, welcoming new look and a bevy of impressive new features. Work began in the summer of 2016, but it soon became obvious that the public would have to be kept out to make way for the extensive renovations, so the library closed in December 2016.
Jul 5, 2022 · The New York Public Library is making very good use of the Internet these days. The system just debuted a new "virtual branch" that folks can access on Instagram that will give rise to an online ...
Apr 13, 2022 · NYC libraries are offering free digital library cards to people across the U.S. The offer is being done in response to book bans that have cropped up around the country. Written by. Shaye Weaver ...
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