BOOKS about Staten Island
The College of Staten Island LIBRARY
SUBJECT LIST or Alphabetical List

See also Dissertations concerning Staten Island


The volumes in this list are located in the Staten Island Special Collections unless indicated otherwise.
For access to the collection, please ask the librarian at the reference desk. All materials are non-circulating (unless indicated otherwise) and may be used only within the Library. Compiled by Dr. Linda Jones Roccos, June 1998; updated by Lisa Holland, March 2003.

| Agriculture | Art & Architecture | Communities | Economics | Education | Geography | History | History, Local
| Legal | Literature | Medicine | Music | Naval Science | Religion | Science | Technology | Transportation

GENERAL:

These items are of general interest.

RELIGION:

The few items here are specific to particular churches or to a practitioner of one religion. For comments on all churches and religions on Staten Island, see the section on Local History.


HISTORY: GENERAL

Not specific to Staten Island, these works concern the historical background of the entire region.


HISTORY: LOCAL (Staten Island Call Numbers = F 127.S7 . . .)

The Library of Congress classification for Staten Island has been used for works specifically about the Island, both legendary and historical, topographical and archaeological.
 


HISTORY: LOCAL (New York City Call Numbers = F 128....)

The Library of Congress classification for New York City.


GEOGRAPHY

Scientific studies of the entire island and specific regions are included here.


ECONOMICS

Industry, housing, and life on the island, as well as statistical guides from various years and planning studies.


TRANSPORTATION

Government studies, city, state and federal, as well as privately commissioned studies on various aspects of movement, from ferries to rail to parkways.


COMMUNITIES

Planning studies for various housing developments, environmental plans, as well as the Greenbelt, Willowbrook, and Sailors' Snug Harbor.


POLITICAL SCIENCE


LEGAL

The Willowbrook scandal from the 1970s, as well as Congressional hearings for the Gateway Area.


EDUCATION

Primarily proposals for the College of Staten Island at Willowbrook.


MUSIC

One study of music in high schools.


ART & ARCHITECTURE

Museum collections and exhibitions, architecture on Staten Island, and artists who lived and worked on the Island, such as Cecil Bell.


LITERATURE

The Staten Island press, and novels and stories with settings on Staten Island, by authors having worked or lived on Staten Island, such as Armand Shwerner, and about personalities who had worked or lived on the Island, such as Jane Bowles.


SCIENCE


MEDICINE


AGRICULTURE


TECHNOLOGY


NAVAL SCIENCE


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