Best of the Web: Libraries & Book Trade

Though materials only circulate to school students and faculty, others may make appointments to view their unique holdings on music, dance, and drama.

A Japanese-language bookstore at a convenient midtown location. Also carries books in English on Japanese history and culture, the Japanese language, martial arts, and other subjects.

Digitised images of late medieval manuscripts originating from 15th-century German workshops.

The oldest and largest Spanish-language bookstore in the United States.

The Leo Baeck Institute is devoted to studying the history of German-speaking Jewry from its origins to its tragic destruction by the Nazis and to preserving its culture.The 60,000 volume library of the New York Institute is recognized as the foremost reference source in its field.

Links to libraries around the world by country.

A listing of 18,000 library sites worldwide, arranged by country.

A useful overview of the profession, including a job description and outlook.

A project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, this site provides links to online library exhibitions, browsable in alphabetical order by exhibition title.

Featuring books from the NYPL's own publication division New York books and gifts children's books and toys jewelry, novelties and lots more.

A librarian-centered wiki with information on a wide range of topics, including management, collection development, marketing, technology, and programming.

"The Juilliard Manuscript Collection"An extraordinary collection of 138 priceless autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs, and first editions, which were donated to the School in February 2006 by Juilliard Board Chairman Bruce Kovner..."

A collaborative weblog devoted to current events and news in the world of Library and Information Science.

The Peter Jay Sharp Library and Evelyn Sharp Performance Library provide students with access to CDs, DVDs, books, and periodicals relating to an array of musical interests.

The first public library in France, this library is currently connected to the Institut de France in Paris and run by the French Ministry of Education.

"Founded in 1898, MLA is a nonprofit, educational organization of more than 1,100 institutions and 3,600 individual members in the health sciences information field."

Founded in 1820 by merchants and their clerks, this membership library has a circulating collection and sponsors literary events. It also provides low-cost workspace for writers and non-profit literary organizations.

This New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO) site contains links to numerous college, museum, law, medical,technical, and organization libraries, etc.

Located in Times Square and Grand Central, these spacious stores carry a large collection of current titles, back issues, trade paperbacks and toys.

This is an electronic facsimile of "one of Scotland's great medieval treasures. Written and illuminated in Paris in the 1280s, it also contains full-page miniatures by English artists of the same period, and was one of the most richly decorated manuscripts in medieval Scotland. Medieval additions include probably the second oldest example of Gaelic written in Scotland."

Specializing in mystery, crime, suspense, espionage, and detective fiction, from their W 56th St. location.

From the U.S. Department of Agriculture, get access to global information on agriculture.

Available in Dutch or English.

The Academy Library is the only medical library in New York City that is open to the public.

News, career information, and other resources for New York State librarians.

Founded in 1754, this subscription library houses around 200,000 volumes.

An independent research library with materials covering local history of New York City and State, as well as the American experience.

For researchers interested in the fine arts, decoration, art history, architectural history, design and theory.

Search the catalog, as well as access research guides for various art-related categories.

The world's oldest gay and lesbian bookstore has been serving the West Village since 1967.

"Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.It is the world's largest university press. It publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals."

This Brooklyn bookstore has books in Polish and to learn Polish.

Shop the world's largest independent used and new bookstore.

Lists law libraries in New York City which are open to the public. From The Law Library Association of Greater New York.

Access to the library catalog, events calendar and research resources. Website is also available in Spanish and Russian.

Illustrated guide to European collections at the Library of Congress.

Recorded Books is one of the world's largest independent publisher and distributor of unabridged audiobooks on cassettes and CDs, narrated by professional actors. You can purchase or rent.

Library contains more than 80,000 taped textbooks in a variety of subjects, from literature and history to math and the sciences, at all academic levels from kindergarten through postgraduate.

Located in the heart of Manhattan, this bookstore and publishing house offers a beautiful setting and titles in the categories of architecture, art, fashion, interior design, and photography.

A bibliography of articles, books, and electronic documents related to scholarly publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. Most published between 1990 and the present. Where possible, links are provided to sources available on the web.

An independent bookstore with six locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

This Simon & Schuster site is searchable by title, author and genre.Also includes new releases, bestsellers, reading guides and anaudio feature.

Extensive audiobook rental company.

Get information abot current and upcoming exhibitions and openings at the Smithsonian Institute's museums & galleries, as well as its affiliate museums and traveling exhibits.

A general resource for archives offering publications on standard practices.

Located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this store "specializes in Used, Rare and New books on Contemporary Art, Architecture and various Design fields, with an emphasis on Imported or hard-to-find."

Library of the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, the oldest Episcopal seminary library in the United States.

Shop online or at the convenient 2nd Avenue location for Armenian books. The store is part of St. Vartan's Church.