Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny connects New Yorkers to 21st century information. NOVELny is supported primarily with New York State funds. It is also supported in part with federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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Hathi Trust
The HathiTrust Digital Library is home to millions of digitized books and publications.
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CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 265 world entities.
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Mango Languages
Language learning interface that offers practical conversational skills and valuable cultural insight.
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Board Meeting Documents for January 10, 2024
Combined Agenda – 01-10-24 01-10-24 Library Board Agenda Agenda Item #1 – 12 13 23 Regular Library Board Minutes – DRAFT Agenda Item #2 – Budget Report – December 2023 Agenda Item #3 – Claim List 5 Agenda Item #4 – Adult Services Report – December 2023 Agenda Item #4 – Assistant Directors Report – December 2023 Agenda Item #4 – Collection Management Report – December 2023 Agenda Item #4 – Community Outreach Report – December 2023 Agenda Item #4 – Digital Media Specialist Report – December 2023 Agenda Item #4 – Library Systems Report – December 2023 Agenda Item
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Artificial, yes. Intelligent? hmmm…
An overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a high level and critical perspective. Using Image Creation powered by Bing/DALL-E 3, the featured image to the left was generated with AI ∙ November 1, 2023 at 2:51 PM. I found my first encounter with an AI chatbot, ChatGPT, rather interesting. Below are my two questions and ChatGPT's responses from that encounter. You might be interested to know that my second question was paraphrased from the 1942 movie, The Man who Came to Dinner. User Should artificial intelligence act as the ultimate arbiter in identifying something as misinformation? ChatGPT Artificial intelligence (AI)
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Discover Aspen Discovery!
We are pleased to inform you that our new all-inclusive catalog is now available. Previously, if you wished to search for titles in all formats (that is, books, ebooks, and movies), you would have had to conduct a search not only in our catalog, but also in Libby, hoopla, and others. Now with Aspen Discovery, one search is all it takes, and you'll see search results from all our content providers presented at once. In addition to “one stop shopping” when it comes to title searches, Aspen Discovery also provides enriched content. Overall, it was designed to provide a much
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Gale Index – New York Post
Search the full text of the New York Post from January 19, 2000 to February 7, 2020.
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Gale Index – The New York Times
Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1985).
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Protected: Back to School Concerns
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We’re Getting an Igloo!
What is an Igloo, you ask? Watch this…
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The Great Courses on Kanopy
The Great Courses are a series of college-level lecture courses, perfect for anyone who wants to further their education or take a deep dive into a variety of subjects.
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medici.tv
The largest online catalogue of classical music, opera and dance videos.
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Board Meeting Documents for January 8th, 2020
Approved Library Board Meeting Minutes – 01-08-20 Combined-Agenda-01-08-20 01 08 20 Library Board Agenda Agenda Item #1 – 12 11 19 Regular Library Board Minutes Agenda Item #2 – Budget Report – December 2019 Agenda Item #3 – Claim List 9 Agenda Item #3 – Claim List 10 Agenda Item #3 – Claim List 11 Agenda Item #4 – Assistant Directors Report December 2019 Agenda Item #4 – Adult Services Report – December 2019 Agenda Item #4 – Collection Management Report – December 2019 Agenda Item #4 – Community Outreach Report – December 2019 Agenda Item #4 – Youth Services
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NYS Historic Newspapers
The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history.
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Board Meeting Documents for September 12th, 2018
Approved Library Board Meeting Minutes – 09-12-18 9-12-18-Combined-Agenda-Documents 09-12-18 Library Board Agenda Agenda Item #1 – 07-11-18 Regular Library Board Minutes Agenda Item #2 – Budget Report – August 2018 Agenda Item #3 – Claim List 1 Agenda Item #3 – Claim List 2 Agenda Item #3 – Claim List 24 Agenda Item #4 – Report of Administration – July-August 2018 Agenda Item #4 – Assistant Directors Report – July-August 2018 Agenda Item #4 – Adult Services Report – July-August 2018 Agenda Item #4 – Community Outreach Report – July-August 2018 Agenda Item #4 – Youth Services Report – July-August
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Board Meeting Documents for July 11th, 2018
Approved Library Board Meeting Minutes 07-11-18 07-11-18-Combined-Agenda-Documents 07 11 18 Library Board Agenda Approved Library Board Meeting Minutes – 06 13 18 Agenda Item #2 – Budget Report – June 2018 Agenda Item #3 – Claim List 23 Agenda Item #4 – Assistant Directors Report – June 2018 Agenda Item #4 – Adult Services Report – June 2018 Agenda Item #4 – Youth Services Report – June 2018 Agenda Item #4 – Community Outreach – June 2018 Agenda Item #4 – Media Report – June 2018 Agenda Item #4 – Collections Management Report – June 2018 Agenda Item #4 –
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Your Personal Data & Its Keepers: Facebook
“Travel and tell no one, live a true story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.” – Khalil Gibran With the dawn of the Internet, we were so gosh darn excited and having so much fun at all we could see, hear, learn and do online that we failed to notice that we were on a slippery slope where we increasingly sacrificed our security and privacy for convenience. While some of us started to become aware of the dangers in doing so, many simply had the attitude that they have nothing to hide,
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Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
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Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Go to Resource
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