Statewide Reference Services

Business
Phone: (973) 733-7779
Email: reference@npl.org
URL: http://www.npl.org/main/collections-services/reference-center/
Guide to business Web sites: https://nplwebguides.pbwiki.com/Business

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.

N.J. Documents:
New Jersey Information Center
Phone: (973) 733-7775
Email: njreference@npl.org
URL: http://www.npl.org/main/collections-services/charles-f-cummings-new-jersey-information-center/
Guide to New Jersey Web sites: https://nplwebguides.pbwiki.com/NJ

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: http://www.npl.org/main/collections-services/u-s-government-documents-regional-depository-services/
Guide to U.S. Documents Web sites: 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: http://www.npl.org/main/collections-services/reference-center/
The Newark Public Library’s Song Index: http://songindex.npl.org
Guide to music Web sites: https://nplwebguides.pbwiki.com/Music

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.

New Jersey Information Center
Phone: (973) 733-7775
Email: reference@npl.org
URL: http://www.npl.org/main/collections-services/charles-f-cummings-new-jersey-information-center/
Guide to New Jersey Web sites: https://nplwebguides.pbwiki.com/NJ

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.

Patents and Trademarks
Phone: (973) 733-7779
Email: reference@npl.org
URL: http://www.npl.org/main/patents-trademarks/
Guide to Patents Web sites: https://nplwebguides.pbwiki.com/Patents
Guide to Trademarks Web sites: https://nplwebguides.pbwiki.com/Trademarks

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.