Chair Williams outlines research collections across three library systems
Chair Williams describes the research collections of the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History, and Queens Public Library's Black Heritage Reference Center. She highlights the staff and funding required to support these collections.
But our hearing today also goes well beyond the Schomburg Center to bring attention to the research collections of all three of our public library systems.
Those collections include the New York Public Library for Performing Arts, Dorothy and Louis B.
Cullum Center, and the research divisions in Center's House and New York Public Library's flagship Stephen A.
Swartzman Building, the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History, Center for Brooklyn History,
Originally founded as the Long Island Historical Society in 1863 and now residing in an 1881 Brooklyn Heights building, much of which has been designated as an interior landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
And the Queensborough Public Library's Carter G.
Woodson Reference Collection of African American Culture and Life, as well as the Queens Public Library's Black Heritage Reference Center located in Corona
at the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, which was the first public building to be named for the Harlem Renaissance literary giant.
Who had died in 1967, just two years before the library was founded.