New York Public Library

They re part of the civic fabric, like the New York Public Library or Central Park, said Thomas Connors, author of Meet Me in the Bar, an appreciation of American hotel bars. 

Barnes-Svarney, Patricia, ed. The New York Public Library Science Desk Reference. New York Simon Schuster,... 

The New York Public Library Writer s Guide to Style and Usage. New York HarperCollins. 

According to the New York Public Library Desk Reference (4th ed.), Isaac Asimov wrote over 400 books and is the only author with a book included in every maj or Dewey-decimal category. I sit in awe of Asimov, but a few people have exceeded his book output. Lauran Paine (b. 1916) has published over 900 books under more than 90 pen names. Paine... 

The facts are that of the 20 million books and pamphlets in the collection of the Library of Congress, as many as 30% are in such a critical stage of deterioration that they can not be circulated (5,6). A recent survey of the New York Public Library revealed that nearly 50% of its more than five million books are on the brink of disintegration (7). This phenomenon can be observed in any major university or research library. Millicent Abell of Yale University Library has estimated that as many as 76 million books nationwide may literally be crumbling into dust, with more joining the list every year (8). A study conducted by William Barrow sadly indicated that 97% of all books published between 1900 and 1949 would have a useful life of fifty years or less (9). 

Barnes-Svarney, P. (1995). Science Desk Reference. MacMillan Press New York Public Library, New York, NY. 

Some of these difficulties can be addressed. For example, a much weaker base than sodium hydroxide could be used. Also, the pages could be removed from the binding, soaked one at a time, dried and then rebound. In fact, this process is used for some very rare and valuable books, but the labor involved makes it very expensive—much too expensive for the miles of books in the New York Public Library. Obviously, this process is not what your company is seeking. 

Unfortunately there is, even in English, no generally accepted form of transliteration. In the United States we have the Chemical Abstracts system, the Library of Congress system, the Government Printing Office system, the New York Public Library system, and perhaps others as well. The system used by British Abstracts is similar to, but not absolutely identical to, the one used by Chemical Abstracts. 

II) Haskell, D. C., Check List of Cumulative Indexes to Individual Publications in the New York Public Library, New York Public Library, New York 1942. 

Scientific and Technical Collections in The New York Public Library... 

Among the several large libraries in the United States of some bibliographic in- terest to chemists is the collection of the Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations, the privately endowed Reference Department of The New York Public Library at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. The total reference collection of almost 4,000,000 volumes, with very few titles duplicated, is one of the large reference collections in the world, financed, incidentally, almost entirely from private funds. 

The Reference Department of The New York Public Library offers no lending or interlibrary loan service. However, it does have an eflBcient and well-equipped Photographic Service Division which handles requests for photostat or other types... 

The leaders of DuPont—two brothers, a brother-in-law, a nephew, and a cousin—at the New York World s Fair of 1939. They are previewing the company s Wonder World of Chemistry pavilion, where nylon was first introduced to the public. From left, Irenee du Pont, vice chairman of the board Henry B. du Pont, later a company vice president Ruly Carpenter William du Pont Jr., director and Lammot du Pont, president. (Courtesy of the New York World s Fair 1939-1940 records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.)... 

FIGURE 19 The Stag and the Unicom in the Forest Symbols of Body, Soul, and Spirit. Lambspringk, Figurae et emblemata, in Musaeum bermeticum, 1625 edition. (By permission of the New York Public Library)... 

Amedee Denisse, Traite Pratique Complet des Feux d Artifice, Paris, 1882, at the New York Public Library (not for loan). 

Mss in Articles, Essays, Fictions and Reviews 1915-1941 , Virginia Woolf Manuscripts, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, New York Public Library. 4, pp. 388-99, reprints the first published version of the essay from the Yale Review, 1916. CE, pp. i-ii, reprints the much-revised version from The Common Reader Second Series. 

Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia, ed. Louise A. DeSalvo (New York New York Public Library, 1982), p. ix. 

I Virginia Woolf, The Years, holograph, microfilm. 8 vols. The Virginia Woolf Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications International, 1993. 

New York Public Library, Engineering Societies Library. 1975. Bibliographic Guide to Technology. Boston G. K. Hall. 

R. D. Smith, W. O. Wozniak, Comparison of Paper Condition in Identical Copies of Dutch Imprints from the New York Public Library and the Royal Library of Holland, study in progress, Aug. 1988. 

New York Public Library has one of the largest reference collections in the world with a stock of over four million volumes. The Science and Technology Division has important collections of basic standard works, and of the periodical and serial publications of most of the leading societies and institutions of the world, as well as government agencies and international organizations. It is also a depository for American atomic energy reports. 

Answer by Author Russian literature is available to us to the extent that our NBS library, the library at Colorado University, Linda Hall Library, John Crear Library, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, and a few other sources have copies of articles on file. Our problem is to become aware of the existence of Russian articles. Much of it that we do find has been translated but some is received in Russian. 1 am sure much material in the cryogenic field is published that does not come to our attention. 

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