Archive for February, 2007
Upcoming Program (March 28): Consumer Fraud
On Wednesday, March 28th at 12:15, Maurice Padula, Senior Consumer Frauds Representative with the NYS Attorney General’s Office, will discuss how the Attorney General’s Office mediates complaints and prosecutes businesses and individuals that engage in false, misleading or illegal trade practices. …
Upcoming Program (March 21): Online trade Resources
On Wednesday, March 21st at 12:15, Mary Beth Bobish and Sheldon Wein will review the many online commerce resources available at the New York State Library. that program will explore ways to obtain data on companies and industries, locate financial input, investment reports, articles and increasing…
Upcoming Program (March 15): Starting Your Own trade in New York
On Thursday, March 15th at 12:15 Bill Brigham, Director of the Small commerce Development Center (SBDC), University at Albany, will talk approximately ways to get a trade started as well as trends in small commerce. SBDCs around the state offer no-cost, one-to-one counseling to assist start-up and …
Weighing In
Politically speaking, there is a big difference within addressing an issue and “Weighing In” on a matter that means a great deal to society in a segment of the community. Politicians are adept at making speeches, giving interviews, addressing constituents at small gatherings or writing irate letters…
New Finding Aid: Rufus Alexander Grider Albums, 1886-1900
A finding aid (guide) is now available online for the Rufus Alexander Grider collection, which consists of albums of Grider’s pen-and-ink sketches and watercolors. From 1886 to approximately 1900, whenever his school duties allowed, Grider traveled up and down the Mohawk Valley, with occasional exc…
New Finding Aid: Sons of the American Revolution, Empire State Society Records, 1890-1992
A finding aid (guide) is now available online for the State Library’s collection of records from the Empire State Society of the Sons of The American Revolution (SAR), a lineage organization open to men who can prove themselves direct descendants of individuals who served the United States of Americ…
Frederick Douglass Letters on Exhibit
An exhibition of letters, written by former slave and prominent black anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass, has opened at the New York State Museum. The exhibition in New York Metropolis corridor, external of the Harlem in the 1920’s gallery, features six letters recently acquired by the New Yor…
New Books for November 2006
The lists of books added to the collection in November are available.Original post by TOM PERROTTA
New Finding Aid: United States Army Infantry 6th Regiment
A finding aid (guide) is now available online for that collection, which consists of muster rolls, orders, returns and other records including requisitions, accounting records, inspection reports and appointment records of the regiment. These records contain knowledge on individual soldiers such as …
New Finding Aid: New York Folklore Society
A finding aid (guide) is now available online for that collection documenting the operational activities of the Society from the early 1950s until the late 1990s. NYFS’s primary activities were holding annual and semi-annual membership meetings and folklore conferences, and publishing a folklore jo…
Program: A Far Cry From Freedom
Author L. Lloyd Stewart presents research from his book, A Far Cry From Freedom: Gradual Abolition (1799-1827): New York States Crime Against Humanity. that work clarifies some of the misleading facts approximately the history of the Holocaust of African enslavement and its abolition in New York Sta…
Program: Consumer Health Discovery Hour
Does an apple a day really keep the doctor absent? There is a bushel full of medical info available to health consumers nowadays. that presentation will discuss how to find relevant health info on databases at the New York State Library and on the World Wide Web. dependable websites will be emphasiz…
Take A Deep Breath
Well, perhaps that’s not such a great concept.Have you noticed that the intensity of diesel fumes Downtown seems worse?Than usual, that is?Well, the fact that residents in lower Manhattan are actually talking to each other about it is a meaningful matter in and of itself. With the nearly 20 years …
