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Waterloo Library, also known as the Waterloo Library and Historical Society, is a historic library building located at Waterloo in Seneca County, New York. The second story of the two-story frame structure contains a small theater. It was built in 1883 in the Queen Anne style and is sheathed in brick. The structure is composed of a two-story ...
National Geographic Image Collection (1888–present), collection of more than 10 million digital images, transparencies, b&w prints, early auto chromes, and pieces of original artwork New York Daily News (1880–2007), online photo archive DailyNewsPix, with photographs dating back to 1880 New York Public Library: ≈ 30% Public domain
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and the fifth-largest public library in the world. It is a private, non-governmental, independently ...
This was the forerunner of the Waterloo Public Library. They had a $2.00 annual subscription fee to use these materials. The funds were used to purchase more books and eventually shelves. In 1888, the Mechanics' Institute transferred their assets to the brand new Waterloo Free Library. By 1902, the Waterloo Free Library contained 7,013 works.
The New York Public Library: a universe of knowledge. New York: New York Public Library in association with Scala Publishers, London. Dierickx, Mary B. (1996). The Architecture of Literacy: The Carnegie Libraries of New York City. New York: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the New York City Dept. of General Services.
Waterloo is a village and primary county seat of Seneca County, New York, United States. [6] The population was 5,171 at the 2010 census and is now the most populated village in Seneca County. The village is named after Waterloo , Belgium , where Napoleon was defeated.
The western town line is the border of Ontario County, New York, and part of the southern town boundary is Seneca Lake and the Seneca River/Cayuga-Seneca Canal. The New York State Route 5/U.S. Route 20 concurrency is a major east–west highway in Waterloo. New York State Route 96 is a highway that turns southward at Waterloo village.
A precursor to CDL was the "Digitize and Lend" program begun in 2011 by the Open Library, a program of the Internet Archive.Also in 2011, the basic principles of CDL were articulated by Michelle M. Wu [1] in her paper Building a Collaborative Digital Collection: A Necessary Evolution in Libraries. [2]