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Efner Center/City Archives
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Efner
History Research Library, a.k.a. Schenectady City History
Center, or City Archives
Mission
Statement and Collection Policy
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Our Mission
The Efner History Research Library was established in 1952 as
the Schenectady History Center. It is the official archive of
the City of Schenectady. It is located on the third floor of
Schenectady City Hall, a building on the Register of Historic
Places.
Holdings of the library include manuscript files, municipal
records, books, art, photographs, diaries, letters and
personal papers, ledgers, scrapbooks, blueprints, artifacts
(these include post cards and flags) and many other materials
of historical relevance.
Our mission is to promote historical research by making our
resources, especially its valuable primary source documents,
available to the community at large, and to members of the
government and other institutions that might require use of
them in the pursuit of their occupations as government
workers, archaeologists, educators or historians. Our aim is
to collect, catalogue, preserve, display and make available to
the public for study vital primary source documents and
collections from our citizenry and city government that will
help them ascertain the history of the people of City of
Schenectady, especially their human and social conditions. Our
particular focus is with respect to the people's governmental,
economic, cultural, educational, and civic pursuits. Our
collections will reflect not only the achievements, but the
problems and issues faced by Schenectadians, and the
relationship of Schenectady's history to the histories of New
York State, the United States, and the world.
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Collection Policy
The Efner History Research Library will acquire unpublished or
unique records and papers, bound volumes, pamphlets,
periodicals, maps and photographs that relate to the people of
the City of Schenectady with special attention being given to
their governmental, economic, cultural, educational and civic
pursuits.
Materials may be acquired by gift or bequest. Other materials
are acquired by governmental regulation that requires that the
City Government maintain documents for specified periods of
time, and the City Clerk deems these materials shall pass to
the Archives. Materials from the public must grant title of
the materials to the Efner History Research Library. In order
to maintain and improve the quality of the collection,
materials that are not otherwise required by law to be
maintained, may be removed from the collections of the Efner
History Research Library if deemed by the archivist to be
irrelevant to the Library's mission, or due to lack of space,
duplication, irreparable condition, or better suitability in
another historical/archival institution. When it is decided to
remove such materials from the Library, the Library will offer
the materials to other community organizations before
destroying them.
The Library does not loan out its materials except by the
expressed permission of the archivist.
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