Library News
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This year's North Country Research Prize winners were announced at the FODYLL Commencement Lecture, and we were able to honor three thoroughly researched convincingly argued essays.
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The Libraries and IT have joined the Digital Library Federation - a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that brings together a consortium of libraries that develop and use digital technologies to extend collections and services.
Services & Technology
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The new United Nations report on Climate Change is titled “Global Warming of 1.5 C.” The text is available complete, and there is a thirty-plus page Executive Summary. We have added a record of the report to both our Encore and ODYsseus versions of the catalog.
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The Federal Depository Library Program has updated access to the Core Collection of United States Government publications. This is a great antidote for "fake news."
Special Collections
Special Collections is the place in the general library where we keep any items that are scarce, fragile, or valuable. Holdings include: printed books, journals, newspapers, maps, atlases, photographs, reports, diaries, correspondence, and more...
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This collection consists of abstracted articles of the Commercial Advertiser, which began in the village of Norwood (Potsdam Junction). The paper later relocated to the village of Canton. Issues in our collection run from 1874 through 1914.
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Alan Casline graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1973 and received his PhD from SUNY Albany. He established Rootdrinker Institute in 1973 and began publishing Rootdrinker magazine in 1975.