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Nioga Library System - serving Niagara, Orleans and Genesee counties
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Other Nioga Supported Web Sites

  • AbleLibrarian.org - "ABLE: Administering Better Libraries - Educate" is a project designed to develop training materials and resources for newly appointed public library directors on the administration and management of public libraries.
  • HelpU2Know.org - links to regional sources originating in Niagara, Orleans, Genesee, Erie, and Chautauqua Counties as well as important sites from other regions of New York State.
  • RingoNet.org - Web site with interesting links for small libraries

Online Catalogs

  • B&ECPL - Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Home Page & Online Catalog
  • Buffalo Free-Net - provides the WNY Community with information about local libraries and access to a variety of online library services
  • EXCELSIOR - New York State Online Catalog
  • Libdex - a worldwide directory of library homepages, web-based OPACs, Friends of the Library pages, Web OPAC vendors and libraries using their software, and library e-commerce affiliate links. Libdex does not include links to terminal-based OPACs
  • WNYLibraries.org - WNYLRC Regional Union Catalog
  • WNY Libraries' Home Pages & Online Catalogs via W.N.Y. Library Resources Council

Reference Sources

Computer Recycling

Information Sources

  • ALA Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Web Site
    The Acts place restrictions on the use of funding that is available through the Library Services and Technology Act, Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and on the Universal Service discount program known as the E-rate. These restrictions take the form of requirements for Internet safety policies and technology which blocks or filters certain material from being accessed through the Internet. The law will become effective on April 20, 2001.
  • National Center for Education Statistics survey Data File: Public Libraries Survey FY96 - "The basic data include population of legal service area, number of full-time equivalent staff, outlets, library materials, operating income and expenditures, capital outlay, circulation, reference transactions, library visits, public service hours, interlibrary loans, circulation of children's materials, children's program attendance, and several items on electronic technology. Identifying information includes the entity's name, address, telephone number, county, interlibrary relationship, type of legal basis, administrative structure, and its qualification as an FSCS public library."
  • New Century Libraries - the Board of Regents legislative and budget initiative that will bring all of New York’s libraries into the 21st century.
  • NYLA's Intellectual Freedom Committee has completed its work on a template for libraries to use in creating policies on dealing with law enforcement inquiries. Your Association believed that this is a necessary step in light of concerns raised by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the USA PATRIOT Act and any other legislation that may affect library rules dealing with patron record confidentiality. The template can be found on the NYLA website.

New York State Information

Official County Websites

National Libraries

Federal Information Sources

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