For Immediate Release
Contact: Christine
Liggio
(607) 547-1472; email: [log in to unmask]
Research Library’s Online Catalog Now Available on the Web
Cooperstown, N.Y., March 15, 2004— Pathfinder, the online catalog of the
Research Library of the New York State Historical Association and The
Farmers’ Museum, is now available on the web at:
http://www.nysha.org/library/.
Named after the principal character in James
Fenimore Cooper’s
novel of the same name, Pathfinder will enable scholars, teachers, students,
genealogists, and other researchers to access the Library’s catalog via
the Internet twenty-four hours a day. Since 1899 the Research Library has
developed important collections of primary and secondary source materials in
agricultural history, American art and architectural history, genealogy, museum
studies, Native American art and culture, and New
York State
history. The Library's Special Collections Department has a wide variety of
materials including rare books, manuscripts, archival collections, maps,
broadsides, and ephemera. More information on the library’s collections,
online resources, and exhibitions is available on our website. Additional records
will be added to Pathfinder over the next couple of years as funding for this
project becomes available.
Pathfinder was made possible through generous support from: The Baird
Foundation of Buffalo, New
York; The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; The Kline Foundation; The National
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; The A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor
Foundation and South Central Regional Library Council.
Other contributors include Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Couper; Dr.
Douglas E.
Evelyn; Mrs.
G. M. Godley ;
Dr. and Mrs. Lewis L. Hamilton;
Elizabeth and Sasha Matson,
and Rotary Club of Cooperstown.
For more information about this project, please contact the Research Library
staff at 607-547-1470 or send email to [log in to unmask].
The New York State Historical Association is a non-profit, private educational
institution which was founded in 1899 in Caldwell
(Lake George). The Association moved its headquarters to
Ticonderoga in 1926 and to Cooperstown
in 1938. During the past 100 years, the Association has preserved tens of
thousands of documents, works of art, photographs, and artifacts. The
Association operates Fenimore
Art Museum and a Research Library
in Cooperstown and sponsors statewide educational
programming. For information, write or call: NYSHA, PO
Box 800, Cooperstown, NY,
13326; (607) 547-1400. The
website address is www.nysha.org.
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Melissa McAfee
Research Library Director
New York State Historical Association
The Farmers' Museum
PO Box 800 Lake Road
Cooperstown, NY 13326
607 547 1473 (tel)
607 547 1405 (fax)