Source:Connecticut State Library

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The Connecticut State Library is the state library for the U.S. state of Connecticut and is also an executive branch agency of the state. It is located in Hartford, Connecticut directly across the street from the Connecticut State Capitol. The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum, and administrative services to the citizens of Connecticut, as well as the employees and officials of all three branches of state government. Students, researchers, public libraries and town governments throughout the state are also served by the State Library. In addition, the State Library directs a program of statewide library development and administers the Library Services Technology Act state grant. "The mission of the Connecticut State Library is to preserve and make accessible Connecticut's history and heritage and to advance the development of library services statewide."

Information about library and state archives facilities and services, general reference information about the state, and links to other resources.

Usage Tips

• A nice set of biographical pages for governors from colonization to the present, see this index.

• Use this source for original information provided by the library (such as their biographical sketches of Connecticut governors above, for example, John Webster). For sources found in the library, use the repository.