The website for the New York State Library, a division of the NY State Education Department, contains information on Library Development and the Research Library, which includes the Talking Book and Braille Library and special projects. There are links to Excelsior, the Library's on-line public access catalog; EmpireLink, a Statewide Database Access Project; and information about citizens' ...

Its primary objective is to complete the transcription, translation, and publication of all Dutch documents in New York repositories relating to the seventeenth-century colony of New Netherland. This unique resource has already proven invaluable to scholars in a wide variety of disciplines. It also serves to heighten the general awareness of the major Dutch contributions to America over the ...