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Business
Careers and Employment
Computers for Public Use
Copy Machines
Genealogy
Law
Magazines and Newspapers
Obituaries
Quincy History
Regional Reference Service

Business
This collection includes information about stocks and mutual funds, banks, insurance companies, taxes, consumer information, business management and consulting. Periodicals available include Boston Business Journal, Value Line, Morningstar Mutual Funds, Investors Business Daily, and the Wall Street Journal.
Business Links

Careers and Employment
The Thomas Crane Public Library, through an LSTA grant administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, has a Career Center housed in the Business Section of the Reference Room. Materials on resumes, cover letters, career choices, training schools, employment recruiters, Job Bank publications and tips on hot jobs for the future are available here.
Career / Employment Links

Copy Machines
Copy machines are available at the Main Library in the Children's Department, near the Circulation Desk, in the Reference Department, and in the Richardson building. Each branch library also has one copy machine available. All copy machines make letter- and legal-size copies and accept nickels, dimes, quarters and one dollar bills. Some machines enlarge and reduce. All copies are .15 each.

Genealogy
Genealogical resources at the library include:

• In-Library access to Ancestry Library Edition online databases
• In-Library access to New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) online databases
• Guides for researching family history
• City of Quincy List of Adult Inhabitants (formerly Assessment of a Poll Tax), 1909-date
• Quincy Annual Reports, 1889-date
• Quincy City Directory, 1882-1967
• Sprague Collection: Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Mass. (microfilm), 1640-1850
• South Suburban Blue Book, 1964-date
• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary and Civil War
• Vital Records to 1850 for most Massachusetts towns
• Massachusetts Regimental histories
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register
• Mayflower Descendant
• Patriot Ledger (newspaper), 1837-date

Genealogy Links

Law
The library's law collection includes the following Massachusetts sources: Massachusetts General Laws, The Code of Massachusetts Regulations, the Massachusetts Practice series, Massachusetts Reports (to volume 409) and the Massachusetts Decisions Reported in the Northeast Reporter. The Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly is available at the Reference Desk. Federal sources include United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyer's Edition, the U.S. Code annotated, and the U.S. Code Congressional and Administrative News.
Law Links

Magazines and Newspapers
The library subscribes to over 250 current periodicals and holds back issues for 150 additional periodical titles. The full range of Quincy's local newspaper, the Patriot Ledger, (1837 to the present) and The New York Times (1851 to the present) are available on microfilm.
Magazines/Newspapers Links

Obituaries
Copies of obituaries may be requested by mail or by email. To submit a request for an obituary from the Patriot Ledger (1837-present) or the Quincy Sun (Sept. 1968-present):

• Send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Thomas Crane Public Library, Attention: Reference Department, 40 Washington St., Quincy MA 02169. Enclose $1 for each obituary requested. List name, death date, and city for each requested obituary. We will search one week from the date of death, photocopy the obituary and mail it to you.
• Email us at quref@ocln.org. List name, death date, and city for each requested obituary. We will search one week from the date of death, scan the obituary and email it back to you free of charge.

Quincy History
The Quincy Room collection contains material on Quincy history and development as well as books by Quincy authors, resident or native born. By order of the Board of Library Trustees, none of these items circulate. However, there are duplicate copies of several of these books in the general collection.

The Warren S. Parker Historical Collection is a unique local history collection. At the core of the collection are over 2,000 lantern slides (c1890s - 1930s) which Mr. Parker used in giving his illustrated lectures. A small selection of these photographs can be viewed online. Acquired by the library in 1945, the collection also contains copies of deeds, maps, scrapbooks, biographical notes and newspaper clippings on Quincy subjects. Mr. Parker was an avid student of Quincy history and his position as City Building Inspector for many years gave him access to records not ordinarily available. Much of this material is fragile, therefore its use is restricted to those doing serious research. Indexes are available in the Reference Department to identify materials of interest.
Quincy History links

Last Modified: March 26, 2009
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