- Alabama Archives
Located in Montgomery, Alabama. Strengths: Alabama history including an extensive collection of primary and secondary sources on the African-American experience from Reconstruction through the 1970s; genealogy; military records; and teacher resources. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
http://www.archives.state.al.us/
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Review It - 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.
http://www.aarome.org/library.htm
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Review It - 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.
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/library.htm
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Review It - 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.
http://www.ajhs.org/
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Review It - 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. Research grants and fellowships are available. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/
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Review It - 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.
http://www.aucegypt.edu/
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Review It - 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 line and through inter-library loan. Research affiliations: Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.
http://www.asu.edu/lib/
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Review It - 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 by the staff and faculty of the Art Institute and selectively available to researchers. The Institute hosts many public events and programs. Memberships are available. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/index.html
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Review It - 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 volumes and 500 current serial subscriptions); and architecture, design and construction (35,000 volumes, 85 serials and over 70,000 slides). Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/
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Review It - 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 Research Library Agency. Open to the general public by appointment. Research affiliation: Research Library Group
http://www.bgc.bard.edu/
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Review It - 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 240,000 documents) and the Haggerty Collection of French Colonial History (some 20,000 items, most from the mid 1800's through the mid 1950's). Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/
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Review It - 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 the United States. Research affiliations: Research Library Group, New England Library Consortium.
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/library/
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Review It - 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, children's literature, music, the performing arts, politics, religion and social action. Research affiliations: Association of Research Libraries, Research Library Group.
http://www.bpl.org/
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Review It - 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, the Popular Culture Library, and the collections of Ogg Science Library. Research affiliations: Center for Research Libraries.
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/
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Review It - 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.
http://www.bl.uk/
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Review It - 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 administration; sociology; and economic, political and social statistics. The library also collects official documentation from governments and international agencies worldwide. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/
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Review It - 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.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
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Review It - 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 the Institute has an expanding web presence. Research affiliation: Association for Research Libraries.
http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cisti_e.shtml
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Review It - 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 affiliation: Research Library Group.
http://cca.qc.ca/
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Review It - 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 literature; the Batchinsky Collection of over half a million items dealing with 19th and 20th century Ukrainian history and politics; and the Novosti Collection of materials dealing with Soviet society from 1917-1991. Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
http://www.library.carleton.ca/
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Review It - 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.
http://www.cwru.edu/uclibraries.html
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Review It - 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.
http://libraries.cua.edu/
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Review It - 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 Library and Information Commission.
http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/
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Review It - Columbia University
Maintains specialized collections related to area studies, architecture and art, biology, chemistry, business and economics, history and humanities, geology and geoscience, health sciences, law, journalism, and other areas. Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/
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Review It - Cornell University
Research collections include Africana, industrial and labor relations, society and economics, engineering, entomology, the fine arts, law, management sciences, mathematics, medicine, music, and the physical sciences. Special collections include rare books and manuscripts, veterinary science. Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries.
http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/
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Review It - Frick Art Reference Library
Founded in 1920 as a memorial to Henry Clay Frick, “to encourage and develop the study of the fine arts, and to advance the general knowledge of kindred subjects.” Maintains a large and diverse collection of works and reference materials executed between the fourth and the mid-twentieth century by European and American artists. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
http://www.frick.org/html/libf.htm
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Review It - Indiana University - Bloomington
Particular emphasis is placed on medicine, the physical sciences, the social sciences and humanities. Research affiliation: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/
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Review It - Library Company of Philadelphia
An independent research library with collections documenting the history and background of American culture from the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century. Holdings include approximately 500,000 volumes in a wide variety of formats, 75,000 graphics, 160,000 manuscripts, and a small collection of early American art and artifacts. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
http://www.librarycompany.org/
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