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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/)

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)

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/)

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/)

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/)

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/)

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)

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/)

Autry Museum of Western Heritage

Devoted to preserving and interpreting the history and traditions of the diverse cultures of the American West. Memberships and study programs available. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.autry-museum.org/)

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/)

Belmont Technical College

Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.belmont.cc.oh.us/)

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/)

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/)

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/)

Boston University

Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries.
(http://web.bu.edu/library/)

Boston University Law Library

Research affiliation: Boston University Law School; Research Library Group.
(http://www.bu.edu/lawlibrary/)

Bowdoin College Library Gateway

Located in Brunswick, Maine, USA. Research collections include the early history of Bowdoin, Massachusetts, and Maine, the Civil War and Reconstruction period, 19th century American literary life, and the Arctic.
(http://library.bowdoin.edu/)

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/)

Brigham Young University

Research affiliations: Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.
(http://www.lib.byu.edu/)

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/)

British Library for Development Studies

Collection of government publications, journals, and the published outputs of NGOs and research institutes worldwide, supplemented by substantial holdings of United Nations and World Trade Organization publications.
(http://www.ids.ac.uk/blds/)

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/)

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/)

Brown University

Particular emphasis placed on research in history and area studies, the humanities, science and medicine, and the social sciences. Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/)

Brown, John Carter, Library

An independent research library affiliated with Brown University. Maintains a closed stack collection consisting of some 45,000 volumes dealing with North and South American history, and European history as it relates to the Americas, prior to 1825. Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/)

California Historical Society

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/)

California Institute of Technology

Academic home of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Research affiliation: Association of American Universities.
(http://www.caltech.edu/)

California State Archives

A division of the Office of the Secretary of State, provides a repository for the state's permanent governmental records as well as other materials documenting California history.
(http://www.ss.ca.gov/archives/archives.htm)

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)

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/)

Capital Universities Libraries

Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.capital.edu/cc/library/)

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/)

Carnegie-Mellon University

Specialized collections in biology, chemistry, engineering and technology, the arts, business, and social sciences. Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.library.cmu.edu/)

Carter, Amon Museum

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.cartermuseum.org/)

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)

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/)

Center for Jewish History

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.cjh.org/)

Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Maintains dozens of specialized collections related to the political, social, and cultural history of the area around Lowell, Massachusetts, USA area.
(http://library.uml.edu/clh/)

Central State University (Ohio)

Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.centralstate.edu/)

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.mmu.ac.uk/h-ss/cerlim/)

Chicago Historical Society

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.chicagohs.org/)

Cincinnati State

Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://dogbert.cinstate.cc.oh.us/)

Clark Art Institute

(Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) - Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.clarkart.edu/)

Clark State Community College

Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://lib2.clark.cc.oh.us/library/library.html)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.clemusart.com/index.html)

Cleveland Public Library

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.cpl.org/)

Cleveland State University

Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.csuohio.edu/)

College of Mount St. Joseph

Includes links to Internet research guides and citation standards. Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.msj.edu/library/index.html)

College of William and Mary

Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.wm.edu/CAS/lcst/)

College of Wooster

Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.wooster.edu/library/)

Colorado State University

Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries.
(http://manta.library.colostate.edu/)

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/)

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/)

Dartmouth College

Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries, Research Library Group.
(http://diglib.dartmouth.edu/)

Duke University

Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.
(http://www.lib.duke.edu/)

Durham University Library

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/)

Edison State Community College

Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.edison.cc.oh.us/mainweb/library.htm)

Emory University Libraries

Maintains research collections related to business, chemistry, music and media, health sciences, law, and theology. Research affiliations include the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, and the Research Library Group.
(http://www.emory.edu/LIBRARIES/)

Fashion Institute of Technology, Gladys Marcus Library

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.fitnyc.suny.edu/aspx/Content.aspx?menu=FutureGlob)

Florida Atlantic University

Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.fau.edu/library/homehome.htm)

Florida International University Libraries

Principal facilities are located in Miami, Florida. Principal areas of research include religious studies, Latin American history and Everglades restoration. Research affiliation: Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.fiu.edu/~library/)

Florida State University Library

Research affiliations: Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.
(http://www.fsu.edu/~library/)

Folger Shakespere Library

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.folger.edu/)

Fordham University Law School Library

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://law.fordham.edu/index.htm)

French Academy of Agriculture - Library

An extensive collection dating from the 18th century dealing with agriculture, agronomy, forestry, Rural economics and sociology, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine.
(http://www.inra.fr/Internet/Hebergement/AAF/bibliotheque/eng)

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)

George Washington University's Gelman Library

Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries.
(http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/)

Georgetown University

Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries.
(http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/)

Georgia Department of Archives and History

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries.
(http://www.library.gatech.edu/)

Getty Research Institute

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.getty.edu/)

Hagley Museum and Library

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/)

Harvard University Research Programs

A list of web sites for the extensive range of research programs associated with the University. Research affiliation: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Research Libraries Group.
(http://www.harvard.edu/academics/research.html)

Howard University Libraries

Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries.
(http://www.howard.edu/library/)

Huntington Library

(Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens) - Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.huntington.org/)

Illinois Institute of Technology

Information Center represents an unique research tool in areas of law, international relations, business, and social sciences.
(http://library.kentlaw.edu/)

Image Performance Institute

(Rochester Institute of Technology) - Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.rit.edu/~661www1/)

Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.imperial.ac.uk/library/)

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/)

Institute for Advanced Study

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.ias.edu/)

International Institude of Social History

(Netherlands) - Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.iisg.nl/)

International Rice Research Institute Library

Maintains a collection of more than 100,000 items dealing with the production and distribution of rice. Site includes links to other resources. Located in the Philippines.
(http://ricelib.irri.cgiar.org/)

Iowa State University

Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries.
(http://www.lib.iastate.edu/)

Jewish Institute of Religion

(Hebrew Union College) - Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.huc.edu/)

Jewish Theological Seminary

(Hebrew Union College) - Research affiliation: Research Library Group.
(http://www.jtsa.edu/)

Johns Hopkins University

Research affiliation: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries.
(http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/libraries/index.cfm)

Kent State University Libraries