November is New York State History Month
Related Dewey Decimal Numbers, of Particular Interest:
974.7 = New York State History
974.721 = Long Island Regional History
974.725 = Suffolk County History
974.724 = Queens County History
(up to 1899, while what became Nassau was still part of it)
974.7245 = Nassau County History (after 1899)
974.723 = Brooklyn (Kings) County History
Note: Try these numbers in the library's Adult, Young Adult, and Children's, Non-Fiction collections, as well as in the New Books sections, among the Audiobooks, and video / DVD collections. Visit The Celia M. Hastings Local History Room (during posted hours) to see their L.I. Ref. and N.Y. Reference, and other collections.
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For the occasion, two of our websites have very recently been link-checked, updated, and slightly expanded:
New York State History Website
http://www.pmlib.org/new_york_state_history_website.htm
http://www.pmlib.org/Benjamin%20Franklin%20Tercentenary.htm
and the link from the PML home page to the:
Suffolk Historic Newspapers website @ http://www.pmlib.org/