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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Alvah and Enos Beach of Russell, NY, and their brother-in-law David Robinson fought on the Union side in the Civil War.
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Clara E. Cable was born in Hannibal, NY in 1864. She was a resident of the Fulton, New York area and a teacher in country schools of that part of Oswego County for about 15 years from the 1880s until the early part of the 1900s.