The New York Botanical Garden

Updated May 2012. NY diatoms transferred to CAS in 2002. Botanical library available to all researchers. Library includes over 260 400 volumes (105 000 book and monograph titles and nearly 11 000 serial titles), 125 000 reprints, collections of archives and manuscripts, seed catalogs and index semina, photographs, botanical art, and artifacts. The Library on-line catalog, is accessible at: http://library.nybg.org. Services include interlibrary loan, photocopying, photography, CD-ROM database searches, and literature searches. Most services are for a fee. The Library is the repository for the Taxonomic Literature II (Stafleu and Cowan) data files and for the archives of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Mycological Society of America, Organization for Flora Neotropica, Society for Economic Botany, Torrey Botanical Society, and others. All groups worldwide with greatest strength in tropical America and North America.