Nicholas Murray Butler Library is owned and operated by Columbia University. It stocks a range of dissertation thesis, music recordings, scores, microfilms, videos, and fiction and nonfiction books. It offers books borrowing, materials photocopying and borrow cards renewal services. Nicholas Murray Butler Library maintains course reserves and provides printing services. It also stocks books related to a variety of topics, such as astronomy, history, biological science, natural resources, forest products, journalism, law literature, and newspapers and microforms. The library organizes facility tours, orientation sessions and instructional workshops that focus on utilizing library catalogs, article databases, government information, bibliographic management software and Web sites for research purposes.
This collection is located in the heart of Harlem and within a branch of the New York Public Library. Arthur Schomburg, born in Puerto Rico, was the original collector of this compendium of information about the black experience and African slavery. The original manuscripts, photographs, paintings and other documents that comprised the collection at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture have been expanded since Schomburg's death in 1940, and now include over five million items. Admission is free. Call for more details.
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Brooklyn Public Library is the fifth largest library system in the United States. The system was approved by a legislation of the state of New York in 1892. The system consists of more than 55 branches, a business library in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., and a public bookmobile. It serves more than 2.5 million residents, offering thousands of public programs, millions of books and more than 850 free Internet-accessible computers. It also offers public programs, such as author reading, Chinese opera performance and poetry discussion.
