Brooklyn Historical Society Othmer Library, Online Catalog

Welcome to BHS's Online Catalog!

The Brooklyn Historical Society's online library catalog was launched in January 2007 through a partnership with New York University. BHS' catalog records for the library and archival collections will be hosted in NYU's BobCat electronic catalog. Now you can browse through the BHS catalog and learn about what we have in our collections from anywhere that has Internet access.

To browse our collections use the link below. Once connected to BobCat, select "Brooklyn Historical Society" from the list of collections to restrict your search to items in our collection.

BHS Online Catalog

Note: The library online library catalog will be unavailable on Fri. Jan 4, from 1-8 PM for essential system maintenance. We apologize for any innconvience.

The Library will be open to readers at the following times:

April-June

Wed, Thurs & Fri: 1 - 5 pm

The First & Third Sat. of the Month: 1-5 pm
(i.e. 4/05, 4/19, 5/03, 5/17, 6/7, 6/21)

Special Note:
The library & archives will be closed to readers on Wed., May 21st, due to an event. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Manuscripts and archival collections are open for use during these days by prior appointment only with the archivist .

The image database is also available for use when the library is open, and appointments are highly recommended to ensure access at a time you prefer.

To schedule appointments or for questions about archives or historic photographs, please contact the archivist or photo archivist , respectively. For other library reference questions, please contact the reference librarian .

We recommend that all researchers and readers contact the library ahead of time so that the library staff can serve you best, as we anticipate high demand.

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