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Anyone who lives, works, pays property taxes, or attends school in New York State is eligible for a free New York Public Library borrower's card. Your library card gives you access and borrowing priveleges to all branches of the Library and access to all of the Library's online databases, some of which are available from home.
Center for the Humanities
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
Art and Architecture Division, Room 313
Tel: (212) 930-0834
Collection: Over 275,000 volumes in a closed stack, non-circulating collection of research material.
Map Division, Room 117
Tel: (212) 930-0587
Collection: Comprehensive; includes all maps produced by U.S. government agencies, some 1,500 Bromley and Sanborn atlases of New York City from the 1850s to the present, and plans of American and foreign cities. Take pencil and tracing paper; no photocopying of rare material.
Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL)
34th Street and Madison Avenue
Tel: (212) 592-7000
Collection: 40,000 circulating books, 1.2 million reference books, more than 10,000 periodical titles, a vast collection of patents and numerous workstations for access to a world of electronic information.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza at 65th Street
Tel: (212) 870-1630
Collection: Circulating material includes over 150,000 audiotapes and CDs, videotapes, scripts, screenplays, and scores. Research material includes clipping files (reviews and visuals) on theater, film, music, and dance.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
135th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard
Tel: (212) 491-2200
Collection: A national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. Collections include art objects, audio and videotapes, books, manuscripts, motion picture films, newspapers, periodicals, photographs, prints, recorded music and sheet music
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Any resident of New York State with proof of address is eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library borrower's card. Your library card gives you access and borrowing priveleges to all branches of the Library and access to all of the Library's online databases, some of which are available from home.
Central Library
Grand Army Plaza
Tel: (718) 780-7722
Collection: Almost 2 million books, 1,000 current magazine titles, 9,000 videos and 57,000 audio recordings; plus picture files, maps, and a special collection on Brooklyn.
Business Library
280 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn Heights
Tel: (718) 722-3333
Collection: The 150,000 items include numerous business periodicals, as well as a comprehensive collection of loose-leaf services, reference and circulating books, in subjects such as advertising and real estate. Also company reports, foreign and domestic phone books, close to 3,000 directories and access to online databases.
Clinton Hill Branch
380 Washington Avenue
Tel: (718) 857-8038
Collection: Neighborhood library for recreational reading --novels, best sellers, how-to books, travel guides, etc. Closest branch library to Pratt's Brooklyn campus.
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