Yes, it’s home to the Baseball Hall of Fame, but also the home of the New York State Historical Association.
The Daily Star reports on the 40th anniversary of the opening of the present New York State Historical Association Research Library, on Lake Road north of the village of Oneonta.
The facilities and offerings at the library are a far cry from what began in 1910. At that time NYSHA was located in Ticonderoga. James Austin Holden, a founder of NYSHA and its first librarian, declared that year the library was “practically a collection of junk.” Today the NYSHA Research Library serves as a resource for students, scholars, genealogists and researchers, and the Research Library’s collections have grown to include more than 88,000 volumes specializing in Colonial American and New York State history and culture, 19th-century American art history, and Native American culture.
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