Resources for Librarians
Librarians across New York State are invited to copy or map the LibGuides content boxes below to their own research guides to highlight the statewide NYPL services complementing their own.
Remote Research Services
Did you know that anyone who lives, works, attends school, owns property or pays taxes anywhere in the State of NY can qualify for a New York Public Library card?
What you can do remotely with a NYPL card:
Download recreational and scholarly ebooks
Use 250 databases from home, including historical newspaper and primary source collections
Use our Electronic Document Delivery service to request an article, chapter or short excerpt from millions of books held at our offsite facility
Sign up for a NYPL card today! https://www.nypl.org/library-card
Get a NYPL Card
Sign up to get a NYPL card here: https://www.nypl.org/library-card
City residents will need to pick their card up at any one of our 92 locations in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island.
New York State residents who live outside New York City can apply to have their cards mailed to them.
The ReCAP Shared Collection
Use the Library's new Shared Collection Catalog to find and request physical and digital delivery of items from NYPL Research Libraries, Columbia University Libraries and Princeton University Libraries. Read more about the ReCAP Shared Collection here.
Scholarly eBook Collections
These online collections provide access to thousands of scholarly e-books and text books across all disciplines and in multiple languages.
