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Services at the LuEsther T. Mertz Library: Staff, Graduate Students and Herbarium Visitors

  • Using the Library Toggle Dropdown
    • Checking Out Books
    • How to Reserve Materials
    • How to Sign Up for a Library Card
    • How to Visit the Library - Maps & Directions
    • Schedule an Appointment with a Librarian
  • Visitors to the Library Toggle Dropdown
    • General Public
    • Members & Volunteers
    • Researchers - Special Collections
    • Staff, Graduate Students and Herbarium Visitors
    • Adult Education Students
    • Humanities Institute Scholars & Fellows
    • Interns
    • School of Professional Horticulture Students
  • Image Requests Toggle Dropdown
    • Fee Schedule
    • Interlibrary Loan
    • Image Request Form
  • Technical Help Toggle Dropdown
    • How to Access Electronic Resources
    • How to Renew Materials
    • How to Save and Export Titles from the Library's Catalog
    • How to Search the Library's Catalog
  • About Us

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All benefits are extended to staff members, graduate students, and long-term visiting researchers while they are affiliated with NYBG. 

All visitors to the Herbarium have access to the Library's collection. Visitors who are staying for longer than three months can sign up for a Library card and check books out to an office on the NYBG grounds. Visitors staying for three months or longer can use materials in the Library, or request a NYBG staff sponsor to check books out under their name.

Circulation privileges

  • Check out up to three books at a time for three weeks each, (with two renewals), from the circulating collections.
  • Apply for stacks access (Granted after the supervisor signs a completed Library card application, and the individual is given a stacks tour)  (Individuals must have a dedicated office space to use this service.)
  • Check books out of the General Collection, kept at all times on NYBG grounds.  **Books must be stored in the individual's NYBG office space and are subject to recall at any time** (Individuals must have a dedicated office space to use this service.)
  • View Rare Book Room, pre-1850s, and Archival materials in the Library with Library staff permission and supervision
  • Request materials from other institutions through Interlibrary Loan

E-resource privileges

  • Access all subscription database and e-services onsite while using Library and NYBG computer terminals, or Garden WiFi
  • Access subscription databases and e-resources offsite after being issued a Library card

On-site Library services

  • Use any public computers in the Library
  • Use the high-res scanner in the Library for free
  • Use the Reading Room and WiFi for study, projects and meetings during the Library’s hours of operation

Instruction and research privileges

  • Query Reference Librarians and Plant Information Specialists for help, either on-site, via email, or over the phone during the Library’s hours of operation
  • Request one-on-one or group training for e-resources from the Reference Librarian

Digital Collections

  • Mertz Digital
    View digitized materials about the Garden, including historical photos, "Journal of the New York Botanical Garden" and "Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden"
  • Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
    The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
  • JSTOR Global Plants
    Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration.
  • Linnaeus Link
    Search the catalogue for Linnaean materials (including digital) held in libraries throughout the world. Linnaeus Link is a comprehensive international online Union Catalogue of Linnaean publications.
  • The C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium
    The C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium is the gateway to the digitized specimens of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium. Currently, 2.5 million specimen records and 1.5 million images are available. Every month, about 20,000 new records and images are added.
  • Wiley Digital Archives
    Archival material from the Mertz Library's Nathaniel Lord Britton Papers and Lewis David von Schweinitz Papers was contributed to Wiley Digital Archives. View that material plus material contributed by other institutions. Please note that this collection can be accessed only from a computer located at NYBG. (Authentication is by ip address.)

Contact Us

Library
e libref@nybg.org

please note that the physical library collections are not accessible during the NYBG COVID-19 closure

 

Archives
e archives@nybg.org

please note that the archival collections are not accessible during the NYBG COVID-19 closure

 

Plant Information
e plantinfo@nybg.org
 

Library Hours

In accordance with government regulations for public density, the Mertz Library is temporarily closed. Click here for more information.

How-to guides

  • Access to databases off-site
    Instructions for accessing our databases offsite.
  • Interlibrary Loan Services
    Use ILL to request books and articles from other institutions. Contact the Library at the email above to place a request.
  • Renew Items
    This guide details how to renew books. You must have your Library barcode in order to renew books yourself. If you do not have your barcode, email the Library and a Librarian will provide you with this information.
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