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The article reports that the collections of the New York State Library in Albany will be available to all New York residents. In a six-month pilot project, all residents of New York State will now have access to the collections of the New York State Library in Albany. Previously, access was available only to state officials and employees, legislators, members of the state bar, state licensed physicians, and local government historians. With the project, announced by New York education commissioner Richard Mills, all New Yorkers 18 and older can borrow directly from the library's circulating collection, as well as getting remote access to the library's NOVEL online databases, New York's statewide virtual library. NOVEL includes a range of resources, including full-text electronic-collections of national and international newspapers and magazines. The policy addresses a 2000 New York State Regents Commission on Library Services report that outlined ten recommendations to improve library services in New York State, which included improving access to the collections of the state library.

Relates news briefs on digital libraries. A partnership at Cornell University with computer scientists and librarians to develop better strategies for documents and other data; The funding by the United States Department of Education of two projects at Columbia University to make South Asian resources and library collections more available through enhancement and use of the World Wide Web.

Reports that in 1999 the New York Public Library (NYPL) acquired the archives of the upstate New York artists' retreat known as Yaddo. Items included in the collection such as manuscripts and paintings; Artists associated with Yaddo such as Truman Capote and Aaron Copland.

Reports that New York Public Library (NYPL) leaders and city politicians gathered for a virtual tour of the design for the Lincoln Center's Library of the Performing Arts (LPA). LPA undergoing a two-year, $30 million renovation; Improvements to the renovated library.

This article reports that a consortium of libraries at five New York State independent colleges and universities have been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support development of a resource-sharing system for academic libraries throughout the state. The project, called the ConnectNY, allows the institutions to share library holdings, making the collections of all five readily available to students, faculty and staff.

Focuses on the 'Rochester Images Timeline' project begun by the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County in New York. Benefits of developing digital products and services in collaboration with other institutions, which was one of the library's goals; Decision to use MARC format; Grants that the library was awarded for the project.

Discusses grants and other funding information in the library sector. Announcement by the Library of Congress that AT&T is donating more than three million dollars to the National Digital Library Program; Plans to use part of the funds to digitize materials from the Library of Congress' collections of Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel F.B. Morse; Information about the discount that the New York Public Library has received through the federal education e-rate program.

Reports on New York-based Newburgh Free Library's receipt of second-year funding for its Business Resource and Information Exchange project. Support offered by the library to small businesses through the program; Plans of the library in using the grant to strengthen its outreach services.

Details the process of how the Herrick Library at Alfred University in Alfred, New York developed a database to track availability of serial holdings. Confusion adding to which journal titles could be accessed either in print or online services; Hardware and software used; Formatting; The use of a union query; Web accessibility; Other considerations; Conclusions.

Presents an overview of the contents of Web sites related to world fairs. Online exhibits maintained by the Architecture Library at the University of Maryland in College Park; Personal accounts and stories of those who attended the 1901 Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York; Events at the 1939 New York World's Fair presented in slide shows.

Reports on a National Leadership grant awarded to the Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library for the creation of an online picture collection. How the library will use the federal grant to digitize, catalog, and make available on the Internet out-of-copyright images from its Picture Collection; Details of the collection which includes clippings from sources, such as books, magazines, and catalogs; Selection of pictures from its most widely used categories, including Costume and American History.

The article offers a look at the digital image gallery debuted by the New York Public Library (NYPL). On March 3, the NYPL launched an online gallery of 275,000 images from its vast collection, accessible via its web site at no charge. Treasures in the NYPL Digital Gallery (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org) include Civil War photos, New York City historical items, 16th-century maps of North America, sheet music covers, floor plans of prewar apartments, Yiddish theater placards, Japanese prints, menus, Russian civil war posters, theater photos, and more. NYPL president Paul Le Clerc told LJ that the nexus of the project dates back to 1999. Users can tackle the massive trove by browsing broad topics, collections, subject words, or names and searching by keyword(s) or identification number. The library's Digital Imaging Unit has produced high-resolution scans or digital photos of 200,000 items. Additional images were digitized by outside contractors. Another team created metadata for each item, making sure that title, creator, date, medium, subject, collection name, and a link to the library's catalog record are attached to each entry. Le Clerc says use of the gallery has been "colossal--four million hits the first day," with roughly 3.5 million hits daily since then. "We've been running 800 million hits a year on the NYPL web site, and I think this year we'll hit one billion," said Le Clerc.

Announces that The Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has been renamed the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Profile of Jerome Robbins from which the public library was named after; Plans of renovating the public library.

Announces the interim sites for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Renovation of the building which houses the library; Locations of the interim sites.

Reports on the New York State Archives and New York State Library's sponsorship of a series of conservation workshops in Albany, New York. Topics to be discussed in the workshop; Contact information.

The article focuses on information technology news briefs as of July 2012. It states that the U.S. Government Printing Office is allowing bookstore Barnes & Noble sell federal electronic books for its Nook electronic book reader. It mentions that Questex Media Group has acquired information provider Ataway Exchange. It comments that telecommunications company L2Networks Corp. filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission concerning Net Neutrality.

Focuses on the Dag Hammarskjold Library (DHL), which serves the United Nations and its information needs. The challenges faced by head librarian Tahani El-Erian; Her experience in library science; The direction she hopes to take the library; Efforts at DHL to build a virtual library; The Internet presence of the DHL; Storage of United Nations depositories; The optical disk system for information access; Outlook.

Announces that a grant from the Helena Rubenstein Foundation will place copies of titles in The Library of America series in New York City public libraries. Authors to appear in the series.

Focuses on Nassau County, New York-based library system's establishment of a 'human data bank.' Variation of library referral service; Goal of matching up people who want to teach a skill with people who want to learn; Source of funds for the service called the Learning Connection.

Focuses on videotape lending services at public libraries in two major cities in the United States. Blackhawk Films' donation of a collection of videotapes to the San Francisco Public Library in California; Lack of machine standardization at the New York Public Library in New York City.

The article offers libraries news brief as of July/August 2014. Topics discussed include launching of an open environment for the collaboration of libraries for creating extension by Ex Libris Group, provider of library automation technology, partnership of BiblioCommons, developer of checkout system of libraries, with Chicago Public Library to build BiblioCMS, an integrated catalog, and increment in e-book titles by Ingram Content Group, service provider of book publishing industry.

The article reports that the Lepper Public Library in Ohio, and the Kearny Public Library in New Jersey are the most recent institutions to acquire the Polaris Hosted integrated library system. Polaris Hosted is designed for small to medium sized libraries with fewer than twenty simultaneous staff. Libraries using Polaris Hosted do not have to purchase web servers because the system is operated and maintained by Polaris Library Systems at their headquarters in Syracuse, New York, where they also have a generator to ensure any power failures at the host site do not effect customers.

Reports on the availability of microfiche covering black history through the Schomburg Clipping File which is published by the New York Public Library. Number of subject headings available; Production of the microfiche by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Other features of the file.

Presents various news items of interest to library science practitioners as of July 1988. Victory of librarians in New Mexico with the State Board of Education vote against adopting a proscriptive glossary of New Age teaching methods; Extension of credit hours for master's degree by the Columbia University School of Library Service; Millage hike for library operating expenses at the Grosse Pionte Public Library, Michigan.

Presents news briefs on spectroscopy research in the U.S. as of May 2000. Appointment of Thomas S. Passek at the American Society for Nondestructive Testing; Acquisition of Guided Wave Process Analytical Systems Group of UOP LLC; List of training courses being offered by the Institute of Optics of the University of Rochester in New York.