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NYSL web site and catalog unavailable October 5-8
The New York State Library’s web site, catalog and digital collections will all be unavailable from Friday evening, October 5, 2007 through Monday, October 8 considering of scheduled building maintenance taking place all through the Empire State Plaza. By 6:00 a.m. Tuesday, October 9, 2007 all syst…
Proposal Budgeting Basics (October 18, 1:15 pm)
This lesson is for beginning proposal writers who want to memorize the nuts and bolts of budget preparation to support their project proposals. memorize the essentials of project budget preparation and presentation in a grant proposal, including compiling both expense and income elements. that cour…
Proposal Writing Basics (October 18, 12:00 pm)
This course is for grant seekers who want to memorize how to write successful proposals. The course will focus on key components of a proposal, the overall proposal process and the best way to present the data. that course will be presented by Dr. JuWon Choi of the Foundation Center. (Thursday, …
New York Takes Shape: The Development of New York State ca. 1790-1850 (October 11)
The period amidst 1790 and 1850 was a duration of dynamic change in New York State. There were revolutionary changes in agriculture, transportation, finance, communications and demography that would ultimately construct New York State recognizable to twenty-first century society. Bob Arnold, Histo…
Upcoming Program: BIG Online funding sources for grant seekers (additional session: 10/2) 20)
Additional session scheduled for 10/2. (Sessions scheduled for 9/20 and 9/26 are full.) Big Online is an online database of grant-makers in the United States and Canada. It includes funding sources from private foundations, corporations and government programs. In that hands-on course on Thursday…
Upcoming Program: BIG Online funding sources for grant seekers (additional session: 10/2)
Additional session scheduled for 10/2. (Sessions scheduled for 9/20 and 9/26 are full.) Big Online is an online database of grant-makers in the United States and Canada. It includes funding sources from private foundations, corporations and government programs. In that hands-on course on Thursday…
Teacher Materials in Labor History now available online
‘The Great Railroad Strike of 1877′ is an instructional packet on Labor History for teachers, particularly social studies and language arts teachers of grades 7, 8 and 11. The activities in the packet, which correlate with the New York State Learning Standards and Performance Indicators for the Inte…
Upcoming Genealogy Program: Where’d They Go? Finding Family Migrations in Federal Records (September 14)
Are you trying to find out where your ancestors came from or where they went? Federal records can help. From places of birth listed on census records to payment records for Federal military pensions, data on migration is readily available in Federal records, whether you know where to look! On Frid…
Upcoming Program: BIG Online funding sources for grant seekers (September 20)
Big Online is an online database of grant-makers in the United States and Canada. It includes funding sources from private foundations, corporations and government programs. In that hands-on lesson on Thursday, September 20 from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., Chris Szczerba, Senior Librarian, will show parti…
Upcoming Program: CSI: Fine Art (September 28)
Insatiable demand and record prices at auction for fine art and artifacts have fueled new interest in the creation of misleading forgeries, willful misattribution of property, and provenance. But advances in technology and manufacturing processes by the final ten to twenty years have plus equipped s…
Behind-the-Scenes Look at Manuscripts and Special Collections
This virtual exhibit highlights items in the Fred B. Abele Transportation History Collections, covering the period from 1905-1985, which the Library acquired in 2001. Beyond that, however, it provides an intriguing look at what goes on behind the scenes when the Library’s Manuscripts and Special Col…
New Finding Aids available online for the papers of: Melancton Smith, Bratt Family, and Veeder-Vrooman Family
A finding aid, or collection guide, is now available online for the Melancton Smith Papers, 1767-1795, the Bratt Family Papers, 1689-1854, and the Veeder-Vrooman Family Papers, 1662-1925.Original post by TOM PERROTTA
Summer 2007 issue of Upstate Update available in HTML and audio
The Summer 2007 issue of Upstate Update, the quarterly newsletter of the Talking Book and Braille Library (TBBL), is now available online in HTML and MP3 audio. TBBL is a unit of the State Library that lends braille and recorded books and magazines to upsate New Yorkers who are unable to read stand…
