Special Collections
Our 100,000+ items include a number of special collections such as:
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The Chappaqua Library has a collection of information called "The Learning Center." This section includes all the books on how we learn as well as special education topics such as: learning differences, attention deficit, developmental delays, sensory impairments, gifted and talented and pervasive developmental disabilities. All the books in this area have pink labels that say "THE LEARNING CENTER" on them, and those that pertain to special education as well have an additional "SPECIAL EDUCATION" label. In addition to books, this center has periodicals and a video/DVD collection. This center was developed for students, parents, teachers, tutors and professionals for accessing and understanding all information on how we learn and what affects learning.
The Chappaqua Library has developed an extensive special education collection. Books can be accessed by topical bibliographies available in our special education area. The reference librarians can help you access any information you need, so don’t hesitate to ask them for assistance. For more information, contact Deb Donaldson, the library’s special education person, at 238-4779.
Related Links:
Advocacy (http://www.wrightslaw.com)
Alternative Therapies for Children with Brain Injury and Development Disorders (http://www.healing-arts.org/children)
Asperger Syndrome (http://www.aspergersyndrome.com)
Asperger Syndrome Education Network (http://www.aspennj.org)
Autism (http://www.autism.org)
Autism (http://www.autism.com)
Autism (http://www.canfoundation.org)
Autism/PDD Resources Network (http://www.autism-pdd.net/autism.htm)
Born to Explore: The Other Side of ADD (http://www.borntoexplore.org)
Child Development (http://www.cdipage.com/free.htm)
Children With Attention Deficit (http://www.chadd.org)
Developmental Delays (http://www.devdelay.org)
disABILITY Information and Resources (http://www.makoa.org/index.html)
Employment and Youth with Disabilities (http://www.ncwd-youth.info)
ERIC Clearing House on Disabilities and Gifted Education (http://www.cec.sped.org)
Internet Mental Health: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-ch01.html)
Kids Health (http://www.kidshealth.org)
LD Online (http://www.ldonline.org)
Learning Disability Resources (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/cise/ose/categories/ld.html)
National Attention Deficit Disorder Association (http://www.add.org)
National Center for Learning Disabilities (http://www.ncld.org)
Nonverbal Learning Disorder (http://www.nldontheweb.org)
Nonverbal Learning Disorders (http://www.nldline.com)
Parentlink (http://www.westchesterparentlink.org)
SERI: Special Education Resources on the Internet (http://seriweb.com)
Special Education and the Law (http://www.specialedconnection.com)
Special Needs (http://www.specialneeds.com)
Chappaqua Library subscribes to the following financial investment periodicals. They can all be found on the Business and Financial Resources table near reference.
| AAII Journal: American Association of Individual Investers | The Investor’s ETF Report |
| Barron’s | Kiplinger’s Retirement |
| Bob Brinker’s Marketimer | Mergent Bond Record |
| Brinker’s Fixed Income Advisor | Morningstar Mutual Funds |
| The Chartist | No-Load Fund Investor |
| Crain’s New York Business | Standard & Poor’s The Outlook |
| Dow Theory Forecasts: Stock Market Trends & Securities Reports since 1948 | Value Line |
| The Financial Times - North American Edition | Wall Street Journal |
| Investor’s Business Daily |
Chappaqua Library has a jobs and careers section where material on the following subjects may be found:
- Resume writing
- Cover letters
- Interviewing
- Career Planning
- Identifying potential employers
- Directories of graduate and professional programs and financial aid
- Educational and Civil Service test preparation
- Company information
- Westchester County Civil Service job listings
For job information on the internet begin with:
WEBS Career & Educational Counseling Service
Useful sites from the U.S. Department of Labor:
The library has books in the following languages: Spanish, French, Hebrew, Japanese, and Chinese. We welcome suggestions, donations, and help in maintaining this collection. This collection is shelved near adult fiction. In May 2001, the Organization of Chinese Americans gave more than 200 books in Chinese to the library. The collection is very popular and the library and the community thank OCA for its great generosity.
The library has foreign language periodicals:
PEOPLE EN ESPANOL
SINO TIMES
COASTIDE MAGAZINE
PARIS MATCH
If you would like books in any of these languages or others which we don’t own, the reference staff can borrow books for you from libraries in the New York metropolitan area.
Need Money...looking for funding, a grant, an endowment, a fellowship...?
The Chappaqua library has a collection of directories and guides to help the process along. Contact our Reference Desk for assistance in locating these resources.
Relevant Internet Sites:
Fundsnet Online Services
A comprehensive website dedicated to providing nonprofit organizations, colleges, and Universities with information on financial resources available on the Internet.
Grant Writing Tips
SchoolGrants has compiled an excellent set of grant writing tips for those that need help in developing grant proposals.
Grantionary
The Grantionary is a list of grant-related terms and their definitions.
Grants. Gov
This is a single comprehensive Web site that will contain information about finding and applying for all federal grant programs.
Philanthropy News Digest
Philanthropy News Digest, a weekly news service of the Foundation Center, is a compendium, in digest form, of philanthropy-related articles and features culled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS...
The Foundation Center
An introduction to finding funding.
The Foundation Center - Finding Funders
A source for information provided by foundations annually to the IRS on form 990PF. A good source on grants made by small foundations.
GrantStation
Quickly and easily links nonprofits to all current sources of grant money.
Grants Writing from the University of Wisconsin/Madison
A cooperating collection of the Foundation Center Library Network. Excellent links.
New York Regional Association of Grantmakers
A nonprofit membership organization for philanthropy in the metropolitan area.
Non-Profit Guides: Grant Writing Tools for Non-Profit Organizations
Excellent site with numerous links.
FOR GRADUATE STUDY
Federal Student Aid Homepage
Financial Aid from the U.S. Department of Education
Grad School
How to choose the school - how to get in - how to pay for it-sponsored by Hobsons, an educational publisher
FOR UNDERGRADUATES
eSchool News School Funding Center
Information on up-to-the-minute grant programs, funding sources, and technology funding.
FastWEB
FastWEB is the largest online scholarship search available, with 600,000 scholarships representing over one billion in scholarship dollars. It provides students with accurate, regularly updated information on scholarships, grants, and fellowships suited to their goals and qualifications, all at no cost to the student. Students should be advised that FastWEB collects and sells student information (such as name, address, e-mail address, date of birth, gender, and country of citizenship) collected through their site.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE website.
New York State Higher Education Corporation - Grants, Loans, Savings, Guidance
New York State’s College Financial Aid Awareness Network
U.S. Department of Education Student Financial Assistance
White Plains Public Library is one of 200 U.S. libraries offering a Foundation Center Cooperation Collection - a free funding information center.
Chappaqua Library has a collection of books and newsletters on infertility and adoption. The collection was begun a number of years ago at the request of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, a nonprofit support organization which desired a northern Westchester location for information for its members. Chappaqua Library has continued to update the collection. The books can be accessed through the on-line catalog or a reference librarian can give you a bibliography and assistance. The library also subscribes to the RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association newsletter and the newsletter of the American Infertility Association.
Relevant Internet Sites:
American Fertility Association
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Center for Disease Control & Prevention...Reproductive Health
International Council on Infertility Information & Dissemination
National Adoption Information Clearing House
N.Y. State Dept. of Family Assistance ...Adoption Services
The library has audiobooks on CD, cassette and a new format, Playaway, for adults, teens and children. Downloadable audiobooks are also available. Click here to access that capability.
are available in the Children's Room. Please check with a Children's Reference Librarian for more information and the location of these collections.
are available for adults, teens and children.
