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| Volume 11 Number 2, Summer 2000 | ||
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Issue: Library receives Lucent Technologies grant Gourmet Gala honors James Courter Programs foster learning and reading The New Jersey Information Center Summer Reading Challenge "connects" at Library |
The New Jersey Information CenterThe New Jersey Information Center, located on the third floor of the Main Library, houses a research-level collection of materials relating to New Jersey (particularly to Newark and Essex County). Staffing the Center are Valerie Austin, Robert Blackwell, Syvella Copeland, Karen Gilbert, James Osbourn, Willis Taylor and Ralph Tohlin—all under the leadership of Assistant Director Charles F. Cummings. The resources available provide both historical and current information. They include books, archives, newspapers, pictures, documents and 2500 maps.
The Book Collection embodies a variety of popular and scholarly items. Especially strong areas include:
Archives, Manuscripts and Mementos are among the Division’s most unusual and interesting areas of New Jersey ephemera. They include traditional papers—such as those of the Newark Eagles, former-director John Cotton Dana, The Newark Public Library—and several hundred scrapbooks of agencies and individuals. The Newspaper Collection covers New Jersey from 1791 to the present. It is represented notably by The Newark Evening News morgue file, The New Jersey Periodical Notes, and the Center’s own “Information Files” of more than 4,000 folders filled with clippings. The Picture Collection consists of:
The Document Collection is composed of New Jersey, Newark, and Essex County items, as well as census reports. Since 1968, when The Newark Public Library became a state document depository, the Center has received all available state publications. Heavily used by genealogists and family historians are the United States Census reports from 1830 to 1920 and the New Jersey State Census reports from 1855 until 1915.
For more information about the services and collections of the New Jersey Information Center—or to ask a question about anything related to New Jersey—patrons may visit the Center or call (973) 733-7775.
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correspondence to: The Second Century The Newark Public Library 5 Washington Street P.O. Box 630 Newark, New Jersey 07101-0630 Telephone 973-733-7793 http://www.npl.org http://www.npl.org/Pages/ProgramsExhibits/SecondCentury/vol11num2/ Copyright ©2000 The Newark Public Library |
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