Directory of Arts Resources

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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.

Subcategories

• Music
• Performing Arts

Resources in This Category

• Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania

  http://www.library.upenn.edu/finearts/
  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.

• Boston Architectural Center Library

  http://the-bac.edu/students/library
  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.

• Brown Fine Arts Library

  http://library.rice.edu/brown-fine-arts-library
  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.

• Columbia University Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

  http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery.html
  Subject guides and Internet resources in architecture, archaeology, and the fine arts.

• Cornell Fine Arts Library

  http://finearts.library.cornell.edu/
  Supports research in the areas of art, architecture, historic preservation, history of art, city and regional planning and landscape architecture. Ithaca, New York.

• New York State College of Ceramics Scholes Library

  http://scholes.alfred.edu/
  Supports local and Internet research in the art and science of ceramics and related materials.

• Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago

  http://ryerson.artic.edu/
  The research library collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, including primary source collections on American architecture.

• The Frick Art Reference Library

  http://www.frick.org/library/
  Repository for the documentation and visual study of Western Art. Open to scholars and art professionals both in person and via email or telephone.

• The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

  http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/
  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.

• University of California at Los Angeles Arts Library

  http://www.library.ucla.edu/arts
  Information about the library and Internet resources in the arts, including art history, architecture, music, and film.

• University of California at Santa Barbara Arts Library

  http://www.library.ucsb.edu/depts/arts/
  Houses the art and architecture, and music collections; information about collections and services, and Internet resources in the arts.

• University of Connecticut Music and Dramatic Arts Library

  http://music.lib.uconn.edu/
  Collection includes titles in music theory, performance, jazz, ethnic music, music psychology and others.

• University of Manitoba Architecture/Fine Arts Library

  http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archfa/
  Information on collections, electronic resources, services and borrowing.

• University of Michigan Fine Arts Library

  http://www.lib.umich.edu/finearts/
  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.

• University of Texas Fine Arts Library

  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/fal/
  Information on collections, staff, hours, computer resources and employment. Austin, Texas.

• Vassar College Art Library

  http://artlibrary.vassar.edu/
  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.

Related Categories

• Home > Reference > Museums > Arts and Entertainment > Art Museums
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