Online guides
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New York State Documents"... one-page guide to the official publications of New York State, links to web sites and catalogs providing state documents and databases. Provides links to online documents, to instructions for finding print documents, and to popular, notable, historical and other specialized documents."
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New York State Government InformationIncludes additional links to NYS agencies and public laws.
Print guides
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New York Red BookPrint title. Holdings back to 1895. Some years also available via HathiTrust.
The directory and manual of New York State government: executive, judiciary, and legislature. Includes biographies of legislators, judges, and executives and lists office holders and party representatives down to the county level. It also supplies excellent descriptions of state agencies and digests of major legislation. Olin owns the entire run except 1893. -
NYDOCS New York State Document Classification system : the arrangement of New York State documents in librariesPrint title.1995.
An explanation of the New York State document classification system. -
A checklist of official publications of the State of New YorkPrint title. Library holdings back to 1947 - March 2004. Some volumes are incomplete.
A monthly compilation of New York State documents acquired by the New York State Library. Citations are arranged in New York State Document Classification System (NYDoCS) call number order. Also available online from 1994 - from the New York State Library. -
New York state documents an introductory manualPrint title.
An annotated list of sources with extensive historical information and explanations of the publications of the state. Written by Dorothy Butch, for many years a reference librarian at the New York State Library. The Appendix (pp. 116-120) contains a detailed explanation of the classification system (i.e., "call numbers") for New York State documents developed by the State Library.