Category Archives: Featured Resource

Meet Jordan Carelli and Ayanna K. Drakos, winners of the Collins Memorial Library Undergraduate Research Award! The award recognizes undergraduate students who demonstrate exemplary skill and creativity in the application of library and information resources to original research and scholarship. … Continue reading →

Last summer Rachel Hiscox received a summer research grant to work with the Oregon Mission Papers.  This collection, part of the University Archives, dating from the 1820’s to the 1850’s, contains three boxes of letters from missionaries.. It gives great … Continue reading →

Tuesday April 13th is National Library Workers Day!  That’s right – it is a day to celebrate and thank everyone who works in libraries across the country – from your home town public library to the staff right here at … Continue reading →

Call for Entries: Collins Library Book Collecting Contest! Have you collected items on your favorite topic – mostly books, but maybe including materials like photos, illustrations, maps, ephemera, CDs, music scores, or posters?  Say YES – and enter up to … Continue reading →

Digital Schomburg The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, is generally recognized as one of the leading institutions of its kind in the world. For over 80 years the Center … Continue reading →

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration,    National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who … Continue reading →

Bibliophiles visiting New York City and in need of a space to check into should check out The Library Hotel, a beautiful luxury boutique hostelry conveniently located on Madison Avenue and 41st Street, also known as Library Way, just steps … Continue reading →