Reference Libraries Research
American Academy in Rome Library
The Library acquires approximately 2,000 volumes per year and holds subscriptions to approximately 600 current periodicals. The Library houses noteworthy collections in contemporary art and architecture, landscape architecture, Italian history and literature, American literature, historical travel books, and music. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
American Antiquarian Society
Worcester, Massachusetts - An independent research library focusing on American history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through 1876. Established in 1812, its collections include books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, manuscripts, music, children's literature, graphic arts, genealogy and local history. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
American Jewish Historical Society
A membership organization founded in 1892; maintains a museum, archives and research library with collections dating from the sixteenth century to the present. Located at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Open to the public without charge throughout the year. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
American Philosophical Society Library
Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A collection which dates from the Society's founding in 1743. Includes first editions of Sir Isaac Newton's 'Principia' and Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species.' Areas of particular strength: 18th and 19th century natural history, the history of genetics and eugenics in America, quantum mechanics, and the development of cultural anthropology in America.
American University in Cairo
Notable collections include the Creswell Library of Islamic Art and Architecture, and the collections of Max Debbane, Selim Hassan, Labib Habachi, Mahmoud Saba, and Hassan Fathy. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
Arizona State University Libraries
Principal facilities located in Tempe, Arizona. The ASU Libraries contain over 3.1 million volumes. Areas of specialization include urban planning, environmental design and architecture; government documents (local, state, federal and United Nations); East Asia; and Chicano collections. The engineering library houses a map collection that dates from 1619. Some of the material is available on li
Art Institute of Chicago - Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
Located in Chicago, Illinois. The Ryerson Library (built 1901) and the Burnham Library of Architecture (1912) form a significant research collection consisting of more than 220,000 volumes and 1,500+ current serial publications. Special emphasis is placed on 18th-20th century architecture and 19th century painting, prints and drawings. There is also a special collection of 430,000 slides used
Auburn University Libraries
The combined collections of the Auburn Libraries contain more than 2.2 million volumes, 1.4 million government documents, 2.9 million microforms and 134,000 maps. Subcriptions are maintained to 19,000 current serials and 150 current newspapers. Access to the World Wide Web and on-line databases is available through out the Library Specialized collections include veterinary medicine (30,000 volu
Autry Museum of Western Heritage
Devoted to preserving and interpreting the history and traditions of the diverse cultures of the American West. Memberships and study programs available. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
Bard Graduate Center for Studies of the Decorative Arts
Located in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Established in 1993, the Center promotes scholarship in the decorative arts through sponsorship of symposia, lectures, exhibition tours and public programs. The Graduate Center Library consists of approximately 25,000 volumes of monographs and bound periodicals and 170 serial subscriptions. Online access is available to the New York Reference and R
Binghamton University Libraries
Located in Binghamton, New York. The combined collections of the Bartle and the Science libraries include 1,669,000 volumes, 1,698,000 microform documents, and more than 600,000 other documents, sound recordings and maps. Of particular note are the Link Collections (aviation business and underwater archaeology, approximately 25,000 items ), the Max Reinhardt Archives and Library (theater, over 2
Boston College Law Library
Located in Newton Centre (Boston), Massachusetts. The general collection contains approximately 348,000 volumes. Electronic access is provided to indices and abstracts of US congressional publications, Hein's United States Treaty Index, and several other CD-Rom collections. The microform collection includes UN and US congressional documents, US Supreme Court briefs and session laws from all of t
Boston College Libraries
Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries.
Boston Public Library
Principal facilities located in Boston, Massachusetts. Besides acting as a circulating library for the Boston area (25 branches), BPL hosts a huge collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, musical scores and prints, including several first edition folios by William Shakespeare. Research collections include Americana, anarchism, architecture, biography, Boston and Massachusetts history, child
Boston University
Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries.
Boston University Law Library
Research affiliation: Boston University Law School; Research Library Group.
Bowdoin College Library Gateway
Located in Brunswick, Maine, USA. Research collections include the early history of Bowdoin, Massachusetts, and Maine, the Civil War and Reconstruction period, 19th century American literary life, and the Arctic.
Bowling Green State University Libraries
Federal selective depository library since 1933 and Ohio state depository since 1953. Federal materials include all census reports since 1790, U.S. treaties, and many areas of current interest. Rare book archives include the Ockuly Franklin D. Roosevelt collection (1914-1980). Other holdings include: the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, the Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives
Brigham Young University
Research affiliations: Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.
British Library
Official depository of the United Kingdom and one the largest research institutions in the world. Maintains extensive collections of primary and secondary resource materials dealing with most areas of intellectual inquiry. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
British Library for Development Studies
Collection of government publications, journals, and the published outputs of NGOs and research institutes worldwide, supplemented by substantial holdings of United Nations and World Trade Organization publications.
British Library of Political and Economic Science
Located in London, England. Founded in 1896, it is now part of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Collections consist of approximately one million bound volumes and 28,000 journals dealing with all areas of the social sciences. Areas of particular of emphasis include economics; international, political, economic and social history; international law; social policy and public
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Maintains one of the finest collections of Egyptian art in the world, as well as extensive collections of classical and middle eastern art, art of Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, decorative arts and textiles. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
Brown University
Particular emphasis placed on research in history and area studies, the humanities, science and medicine, and the social sciences. Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries.
Brown, John Carter, Library
An independent research library affiliated with Brown University. Maintains a closed stack collection consisting of some 45,000 volumes dealing with North and South American history, and European history as it relates to the Americas, prior to 1825. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
California Historical Society
Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
California Institute of Technology
Academic home of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Research affiliation: Association of American Universities.
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
Collections in the physical and life sciences, the health sciences, and engineering technology from published sources around the world. One of the largest research facilities in North America, its collections include more than 13,000 current serials, 700,000 books and manuscripts and over 2 million technical reports on microfiche. Much of the information is available to the general public and th
Canadian Centre for Architecture
An international research collection related to the history of architecture, its theory, practice and published records from the fifteenth century to the present, all of which can be accessed electronically. Particular emphasis has been placed on resources from Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, but material from other areas of the world are also included. Research affi
Capital Universities Libraries
Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
Carleton University
Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In addition to contemporary materials, several special collections are maintained, including scholarly facsimiles of major medieval manuscripts in religion, paleography and art history; 17th and 18th century British history; 17th and 18th century Russian travel and description; French Revolutionary history; 19th century Canadian history; early Canadian literatu
Carnegie-Mellon University
Specialized collections in biology, chemistry, engineering and technology, the arts, business, and social sciences. Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Center for Research Libraries.
Carter, Amon Museum
Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
Case Western Reserve University
Maintains links to digital databases in the arts and humanities, business, government resources, health sciences, law, science and technology, and the social sciences. Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries.
Catholic University of America Library
The center for Catholic higher education in the United States. Maintains extensive collections chemistry, physics, engineering, architecture and mathematics, library studies and information science, music, as well as nursing and biology. Research affiliation: Association of American Universities.
Center for Jewish History
Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Maintains dozens of specialized collections related to the political, social, and cultural history of the area around Lowell, Massachusetts, USA area.
Central State University (Ohio)
Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
CERLIM - Centre for Research in Library and Information Management
Established in 1993 to undertake research with a practical focus to support operational work in all kinds of library and information services, the Centre sponsors the Libraries Without Walls conferences, publishes a number of reports and provides consultancy to institutions providing specialized research degrees. Research affliations: European Commission Libraries Programme, and the British Lib
Chicago Historical Society
Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
Cincinnati State
Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
Clark Art Institute
(Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) - Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
Clark State Community College
Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
Cleveland Public Library
Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
Cleveland State University
Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
College of Mount St. Joseph
Includes links to Internet research guides and citation standards. Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
College of William and Mary
Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
College of Wooster
Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
Colorado State University
Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries.
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