This category is for the web sites of libraries that specialize in the visual and performing arts, architecture, and visual design. Libraries which include music, theater, or literary arts will also be included in this category. However, Arts/Music/Resources/Music_Libraries is where libraries specializing in music belong.
Supports research in the areas of art, architecture, historic preservation, history of art, city and regional planning and landscape architecture. Ithaca, New York. http://www.library.cornell.edu/finearts/
Repository for the documentation and visual study of Western Art. Open to scholars and art professionals both in person and via email or telephone. http://www.frick.org/html/libf.htm
The Graphic Arts Library and Digital Image Database is available for online perusal of images related to the history and practice of printing. http://wally.rit.edu/cary/
National research library and primary source archive for the history of art and design; offers subject and library guides, including information about the collections, exhibits, and archives. http://www.nal.vam.ac.uk/
Houses the art and architecture, and music collections; information about collections and services, and extensive Internet resources in the arts. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/depts/arts/
Information about library services and collections, including abstracts of UIAH theses from 1993 to 1995, and links to the Finnish Virtual Library and other European art resources. http://www.uiah.fi/library/index.htm
The research library collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, including primary source collections on American architecture. http://ryerson.artic.edu/
A special collection held at the State Library of Queensland; information about the library and links to the special and general visual arts collections, including the Lindsay Collection of Pat Corrigan. http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/scd/arts/jameshardie.htm
Information about library services and collections, with additional resources for conservation, and artSearch, a database of digitized images from the NGA collection. http://www.nga.gov.au/Menus/resrch.html
Information about the library, and access to the photographic archive and the online catalog of materials related to Italian and Flemish art via the IRIS catalog. http://www.iuoart.org/libr.htm
Access to online databases plus information on library facilities, collections, services and policies Located at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. http://blackader.library.mcgill.ca/
Collection includes Canadian, Pre-Columbian, Oriental and Italian Renaissance art as well as the history of architecture. Vancouver, B.C., Canada. http://www.library.ubc.ca/finearts/
Located on the 3rd floor of Rice University's Fondren Library, it contains over 135,000 volumes related to art, architecture, classical archaeology and music. Houston, Texas. http://www.rice.edu/fondren/brown/
Extensive collections include the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound and the Billy Rose Theatre Collection. http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.html
Established in the late 1860s, it contains approximately 100,000 volumes on architecture, painting, graphic design, urban planning, and the history of art and architecture. http://www.library.yale.edu/art/aa.html
Maintains a collection of print and electronic resources in the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts, and contains over 90,000 volumes covering painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative arts, architectural history and photography http://www.lib.umich.edu/finearts/
Non-circulating research collection serving the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, and the undergraduate needs in fine arts and studio arts courses. The Collection contains over 85,000 volumes and subscribes to more than 323 journals in re http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/frick/fine_arts.html
Established in 1895 in conjunction with the Fogg Art Museum, the library is one of the world's most comprehensive academic art libraries for the study of Western and non-Western art and architecture from antiquity to the present. Cambridge, Massachusetts. http://hcl.harvard.edu/finearts/
Information about the privately endowed library with a non-circulating collection on the history of art, located in the Joplin, MO Public Library. http://www.postlibrary.org/
A variety of electronic sources in the fine arts, including Internet links for research information and digitized images, course-specific resources, and access to the online catalog. http://artlibrary.vassar.edu/
Supporting the School of Architecture and Interior Design, and also available to the public for reference use; with library and Internet guides and information about services and collections. http://www.the-bac.edu/index.cfm?pageid=31
The William Morris Hunt Library collection includes over 280,000 items in Contemporary Art; Paintings; Drawings; Prints; Photographs; Decorative Arts; Textiles; Art of Asia, Oceania, Africa, Ancient America, and Ancient Egypt; and Classical art. The W. Va http://www.mfa.org/library/
Subject areas include art, art history, dance, film/media arts, music, photography, theatre, architecture, landscape architecture and planning. http://elibrary.unm.edu/falref/
Collections cover architecture, city planning, historic preservation, history of art, landscape architecture, the studio arts and urban design. Holdings emphasize Western subjects, but includes materials on the arts of Islam, South Asia and the Far East. http://www.library.upenn.edu/finearts/
Holds, studies and exhibits a very large collection of rare books and manuscripts, photographs, works of art, items related to the performing arts, and twentieth-century literature and fine arts, principally American, British and French. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/
Architecture library; houses information on Mies van der Rohe, Crown Hall, and the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.gl.iit.edu/grc/
Research resources for art and architecture include print and electronic holdings, Internet links, access to the online catalog, and an online index to the picture collection. http://library.newschool.edu/gimbel/
