Collection Development and Strategies Department
You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!
Here’s one of our favorite databases:
What’s in it?
The NYPL Digital Gallery provides free, open access searching and browsing of images digitized from The New York Public Library's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs. Topics range from the installation of the NYC subway system to hot air ballooning.
Why should you use it?
The NYPL Digital Gallery contains over a million primary source materials. They have maps, photos, original manuscripts, among other formats. New items are added to this database all the time!
Who should use it?
The NYPL Digital Gallery has useful resources for researchers in history, the arts, architecture, urban planning and engineering.
Why use a database?
When you use a specific database, rather than a search engine or discovery tool, you often can find more relevant sources. For example, subject databases include sources about that subject only, rather than a general search engine or discovery tool that includes information about everything. This way you don’t have to wade through thousands of irrelevant results!
Want more databases?
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If you have questions about this database or others, please see our Ask Us page.
