Library, Museum & Archives Resources

• Directions to the State Museum, Library and Archives

• ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center  - The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ERIC is the largest education database in the world-containing more than 1 million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books.

• How to Effectively Locate Federal Government Information on the Web - Web tutorial to demonstrate the best ways to retrieve government information; instruction on the best strategies for searching the major online sources.

• Interlibrary Loan - The New York State Library provides interlibrary loan service to New York State government and makes its research resources available to other libraries through interlibrary loan (ILL). The New York State Library accepts interlibrary loan requests only from libraries.

• Internet Public Library - Resources for teens, youth, and librarians.

• Library of Congress - The official library of the United States and its people; search its Z39.50 Gateway for catalog records, Dewey numbers, MARC records, and other libraries' catalogs.

• Libweb - Library WWW Servers - Alphabetical listing of libraries on the web.

• National Archives and Records Administration - Government agency resource collection depot of federal government material.

• National Library of Education - Government agency affiliated with Libraries and Education.

• New York Public Library - Resources, foundations, and archive material.

• New York State Archives - A record of New York State history.

• New York State Library Online Catalog - Excelsior, the New York State Library's online catalog, is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, via the Web, telnet, and modem. Excelsior lists the cataloged holdings of the State Library, the State Archives and the New York State Historical Document Inventory.

• New York State Library - Listing of New York State libraries, funding information, the Talking Book and Braille Library, research information and more.

• New York State Museum - Information on exhibits, events, services the Museum Shop and more.

• Roget's Thesaurus - Online thesaurus to find synonyms for the word of your choice.

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