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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

09/05/2008
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating and non-circulating reference and research materials on music, dance, theatre, recorded sound, and other performing arts.

New York Academy of Medicine Library

The New York Academy of Medicine Library has served the general public interested in access to health and medical information since 1878.

New York Society Library

The New York Society Library, the oldest in the city, was founded in 1754 by the New York Society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city to prosper. A subscription library, it now contains nearly three hundred thousand volumes -- the result of the tastes of its members over almost the last quarter millennium.

Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library

Formerly, the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the facility was renamed in honor of the former chairman of The New York Public Library's Board of Trustees who served from 1981 to 1990.

Frick Art Reference Library

The Frick Art Reference Library was founded in 1920 to serve “adults with a serious interest in art,” among them scholars, art professionals, collectors, and students.

The Grolier Club

08/16/2008
The Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library

The mission of The Chancellor Robert R Livingston Masonic Library of Grand Lodge is to collect, preserve, interpret, and make available for education and research, to both members of the Fraternity and others, such materials as relate to the history, philosophy, culture, and organization of Freemasonry, in its social and historical contexts, with a special emphasis on Freemasonry in New York State.

The Grolier Club

FOUNDED IN 1884, the Grolier Club of New York is America's oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts.

The Fales Library of Rare Books and Special Collections

The Fales Library, comprising nearly 200,000 volumes, and over 7,500 linear feet of archive and manuscript materials, houses both the Fales Collection of rare books and manuscripts in English and American literature and the general Special Collections from the NYU Libraries.

Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library

The Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML), the home of many of Columbia's greatest treasures, is housed on the sixth floor of Butler Library.