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. 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. 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. 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. 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. www.library.ucsb.edu/depts/arts
Information on library collections, access, and use, with a to Watsonline, the museum's research library online catalog. www.metmuseum.org/education/er_lib.asp
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. www.uiah.fi/library/index.htm
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. www.rice.edu/fondren/brown
Extensive collections include the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound and the Billy Rose Theatre Collection. 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. www.library.yale.edu/art/aa.html