Our newest collection on New York Heritage is Schenectady Street Scenes which was funded by a grant from the Capital District Library Counci...

This post was written by library volunteer, Gail Denisoff Much is known about Henry Glen, the great-great grandson of Alexander Lindsay Gl...

It’s funny how the answer to a research request can pop up long after a patron requests it.  Back in January a patron contacted me to see ...

It’s no secret that the staff at SCHS is hooked on the Pokémon Go craze (see this Daily Gazette article, this piece on Channel 6, and this ...

Most archives and cultural institutions have hidden collections, these are collections or items that, usually due to time restraints and a l...

Described by Sugar Ray Robinson as “one of the finest fellows I ever fought,” Schenectady’s Marty Servo had quite a boxing career. He ...

Abe Feldman dressed to the nines. Courtesy of the Grems-Doolittle Library Collection. You can find this photo, as well as photos of othe...