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NETOP
RIHS NETworked Online Public
catalog
To begin
searching RIHS collections, click above.
This electronic catalog
was made possible through a $75,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services to increase public access to the Society's diverse
holdings. This initial version contains only a portion of our full
collection. We are currently working to electronically catalog all
collection items. The most complete access is still available at the RIHS
Library.
Reference Collection
The
reference collection includes printed material (books, pamphlets,
magazines), genealogical manuscript notes, microfilm, microfiche, and
Internet access to genealogical Web sites such as AncestryPlus, FamilySearch, and
CyndisList. Our genealogical collection is
the third-largest in New England and attracts thousands of researchers
from all over the world every year. Printed items exceed 150,000
volumes, including the pre-eminent collection of pre-1800 Rhode Island
imprints. More specifically, the
collection includes:
- microfilms of almost
every newspaper published in Rhode Island
from 1732 to the present
- the
Rhode Island
Cemetery Database
- a comprehensive
collection of city directories
- a complete set of
federal censuses of Rhode Island (1790-1930)
- Rhode Island state censuses for
1865, 1875, and 1885
- a subscription to the AncestryPlus
website.
Paging materials:
Many materials are stored in our closed stack area and are paged by the
library staff and brought to the Reading Room for your review. We retrieve materials from the stacks on Wednesdays and Fridays at
10:30, 11:30, 2:00, 3:00 and books only at 4:00; Thursdays at 12:30, 2:00, 4:00,
6:00 and books only at 7:00.
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