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Statewide
Reference Services
The Newark Public Library
Any New Jersey Library Network member library is invited to contact The Newark Public Library directly for information, assistance, and materials to answer reference questions in art, business, music, U.S. patents and trademarks, U.S. documents, and Jerseyana for which you may lack resources or time.
Please note that this service is for libraries, not for patrons. Patrons with extensive research needs should come into the library, or use our fee-based Gateway Service at www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/gateway.html.
Reference requests are accepted until 15 minutes before closing.
Library Hours
Monday:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday:
Friday, Saturday:
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9:00 am – 5:30 pm
9:00 am – 8:30 pm
9:00 am – 5:30 pm
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Call (973) 733-7784 or click here for summer hours.
For more information about Statewide Services provided by the New Jersey State Library, please see the handbook at http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Statewide_Services_Handbook/.
Art
Phone: (973) 733-7779
Email: reference@npl.org
URL: www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/refdesk.html
Guide to art websites: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/SubjectGuides/art.html
Art ID Form: Word Document
or PDF
Scope: fine arts, commercial art, architecture, antiques
and collectibles, crafts, costume, furniture, glass,
graphics, interior design, jewelry, landscape
architecture and design, needlework, numismatics,
photography, textiles.
Collection includes books, illustrated books, periodicals,
slides, auction catalogs, and pictures.
Special strengths
in biography, art identification, and pricing.
Electronic resources: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/art_er.html
Business
Phone: (973) 733-7779
Email: reference@npl.org
URL: www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/refdesk.html
Guide to business websites: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/SubjectGuides/business.html
Scope: accounting, advertising, banking, business history,
finance, insurance, investments, management, marketing,
real estate, sales, small business, and other business-related
areas.
Collection includes trade directories and annual reports.
Strong retrospective holdings of standard business
reference sources.
Electronic resources: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/biz_er.html
Government Documents
N.J. Documents:
New Jersey Information Center
Phone: (973) 733-7775
Email: njreference@npl.org
URL: www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/njic.html
Guide to New Jersey websites: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/SubjectGuides/newjersey.html
Scope: publications from the Newark, Essex County, and
New Jersey State governments, extending back into the 19th
century.
U.S. Documents:
Reference
Phone: (973) 733-7779
Email: reference@npl.org
URL: www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/govdocs.html
Guide to U.S. Documents websites: www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/govedocs.html#netdocs
Scope: Regional Depository since 1906. Special strengths:
materials from Departments of Agriculture, Defense,
Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and
Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State,
Treasury, and Transportation. Also strong holdings from
Census Bureau, International Trade Administration,
Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, Smithsonian
Institution, and Small Business Administration.
Note: A significant proportion of U.S. documents in the depository are included in the catalog of the Library.
Music
Phone: (973) 733-7779
Email: reference@npl.org
URL: www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/refdesk.html
Guide to music websites: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/SubjectGuides/music.html
Scope: information about all kinds of music — musicians
and performers; composition and theory; voice training
and instruments; song lyrics and vocal and orchestral
scores for musicals, operas, folk songs and dances,
oratorios, solo instruments, sacred and part songs.
Collection includes books, periodicals, indexes, scores,
fake books, song sheets, compact discs.
Electronic resources: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/music_er.html
New Jersey
New Jersey Information Center
Phone: (973) 733-7775
Email: reference@npl.org
URL: www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/njic.html
Guide to New Jersey websites: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/SubjectGuides/newjersey.html
Scope: monographs and dissertations on New Jersey history
and towns; biographies; manuscripts (e.g. John Cotton
Dana, Stephen Crane); Newark Evening News morgue file and
subject index; Illustrations Index, Star- Ledger Index,
New Jersey Periodicals Index, Librariana Index; newspaper
clippings; postcards; periodicals, pictures, maps, and
atlases.
Electronic resources: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/nj_er.html
Patents and Trademarks
Phone: (973) 733-7779
Email: reference@npl.org
URL: www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/ptdl.html
Guide to Patents websites: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/SubjectGuides/pat.html
Guide to Trademarks websites: www.npl.org/Pages/InternetResources/SubjectGuides/tra.html
U.S. Patents - full text of all U.S. utility patents from
1790 to the present. Also, design patents, plant patents,
reissue patents, and defensive publications. Patent
abstracts are available in the Official Gazette of the
Patent and Trademark Office, which is held from 1872 to
the present. Indexes prior to 1872 are available in the
Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Patents. Patents
can be searched on the CD-ROM and DVD CASSIS system.
U.S. Trademarks are published in the Official Gazette of
the Patent and Trademark Office. These can be searched on
the CD-ROM CASSIS system.
Libraries turn to us first for
answers to questions like:
Art
Identification of works of art: artist, title, date,
subject, and auction records.
Biographies of artists.
History, style, and values of antiques.
History and techniques of handicrafts.
Business
Details of stock splits.
History of the names of a business.
Manufacturers of products, past and present.
Small business management.
Government Documents
Bills, laws, reports, and other legislative publications.
Census and other statistical data.
Information from cabinet level departments and other
agencies.
Music
Words and music to thousands of popular songs.
Scores to classical works, operas, and musicals.
Information about musical instruments.
Biographical and critical material about composers.
New Jersey
Pictures of thousands of New Jersey people, places, and
events.
Historical statistics.
Biographies of notables.
Patents and Trademarks
How many patents have been issued to a company.
Who owns the patent on a product.
What the original logo for a company looked like.
Statewide Services at The Newark Public Library are funded, in part, by a grant from the New Jersey State Library.
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