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Subject: New York Public Library
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:35:14 EDT

Our wonderful New York Public Library is under incredible financial stress.
They are no longer open on Monday. Hours the five days they are open are
shorter

Yesterday I went to use Frank Doherty's "Settlers of the Beekman Patent"
This is an incredible series. They do not have volume seven which was published
in February. The department head said "I will order thata right now. We have
not been able to order books all year!" To have one of the best genealogy
libraries have a purchasing freeze is an outrage. Not one book since she took
over the department!

Next month they are putting a large image base on the Internet. People are
not using their image files. They have over a million images.
Make noise and they may put more images for our genealogy and history quest
online.

These are the names of two wonderful librarians in the research room. They
are totally knowledgeable about the genealogy department. You can write about
them for employee recognition.
Robert D. Scott
Jim Falconi

If you are coming to the convention, go to the library, push past all the
anti-Bush demonstrations and go to the Genealogy department, the print and
photograph department or the map room. The map room is undergoing renovation, but
it still is filled with helpful people. Let people know you are there. Fill
out forms. You can even take tours.

http://www.nypl.org/makenoise/
Use their Internet site.
Recently I went to a class on Visual Images. The librarian said the visual
image departments are very underused. There is another gret image department
in the branch library across the street. There are also good hisory book
there.


Further downtown very near ground zero is the Municipal Library
(and the NYC record rooms and probate) The "City Hall Library" (formerly
known as The Municipal Reference and Research Center) has an astounding
collection of NY City history along with surrounding areas and an amazing file of
newspaper articles. According to the librarians they are under extreme budgetary
attack. City funding has been severely cut on the things I like most museums,
libraries and senior citizens places. The wonderful Tweed building, which
was restored to be a museum was then renovated for department of education
offices. 9/11 is an excuse to cut funding, not a reality in this case.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/about/chlibrary.shtml

In return I will do research for one lister every time I go to the NYPL.
If I am fortunate, it will even be for an ancestor we share. Please make
requests to me directly rather than clog our list. I will organize my schedule
accordingly.

Good news for many of us is that the Brooklyn Historical Society will be
re-opening shortly. My family history before 1867 will get out of deep storage
CHEERS.

Do not forget our NYPL. Please! Please! Please!

Lynn Phifer

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