Resources

New York Heritage (https://nyheritage.org/)

A collaborative work of the Empire State Library Network, this site contains several digital collections of materials from the CFI Libraries (main page). Included are the Lily Dale Postcards Collection (Post Cards), the Nickell Snake Oil Collection (Snake Oil), and the Nickell Collection of Dr. R.V. Pierce Medical Artifacts (Pierce).

Empire Archival Discovery Cooperative (Empire ADC, https://www.empireadc.org/ )

Another project of the Empire State Library Network, this site collects finding aids from archives across New York State and provides them digitally for scholars. We have two finding aids located here, The False Memory Syndrome Foundation Archives (FMSF FA ) and the Martin T. Orne Papers Archive (Orne FA ).

WorldCat (https://www.worldcat.org/)

This is an online catalog of thousands of libraries all over the world. If you are looking for items from libraries near you, search here to find over 2 Billion items. Many of these libraries provide interlibrary loan and can provide you what you need right at your local library.

Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/)

This is an excellent resource as a STARTING POINT for information needs. Don’t cite it; use it to get to the best information sources and cite those.