Título: New York Public Library
Seção: Website and digital holdings
Background: 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 fourth largest in the world. It is a private, non-governmental, independently managed, nonprofit corporation operating with both private and public financing. The library has branches in the boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island, and affiliations with academic and professional libraries in the metropolitan area of New York State.

Conteúdo: The Library website provides access to the library's catalogs, online collections and subscription databases. It also has information about the library's free events, exhibitions, computer classes and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. The two online catalogs, LEO (which searches the circulating collections) and CATNYP (which searches the research collections) allow users to search the library's holdings of books, journals and other materials. The LEO system allows cardholders to request books from any branch and have them delivered to any branch.  The NYPL gives cardholders free access from home to thousands of current and historical magazines, newspapers, journals and reference books in subscription databases, including EBSCOhost, which contains full text of major magazines; full text of the New York Times (1995-present), Gale's Ready Reference Shelf which includes the Encyclopedia of Associations and periodical indexes, Books in Print; and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. The New York Public Library also links to outside resources, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, and the CIA's World Factbook. Databases are available for children, teenagers, and adults of all ages.  The NYPL Digital Collections (formerly named Digital Gallery) is a database of over 700,000 images digitized from the library's collections. The Digital Collections was named one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites of 2005 and Best Research Site of 2006 by an int

user: when was the library website created?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: could you tell me something about the website please?

assistant: The Library website provides access to the library's catalogs, online collections and subscription databases.

user: what else does the library website have?

assistant: It also has information about the library's free events, exhibitions, computer classes and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes.

user: what are digital holding?

assistant: is a database of over 700,000 images digitized from the library's collections.

user: who did the digitization?

assistant: The New York Public Library

user: when did the digitizations start?

assistant: 2005

user: how long did it take?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: what else is interesting in the article?

assistant: The NYPL gives cardholders free access from home to thousands of current and historical magazines,

user: what was uploaded onto the site?

assistant: reference books in subscription databases, including EBSCOhost, which contains full text of major magazines; full text of the New York Times

user: what else is loaded on the website?

assistant: the Encyclopedia of Associations and periodical indexes, Books in Print; and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

user: do the cardholders pay a fee to access the information from home?

assistant: The NYPL gives cardholders free access

user: what other information can they access from home other than historical magazines?

assistant: links to outside resources, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, and the CIA's World Factbook.