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The collection contains over 485,000 volumes, including books, journals, pamphlets, and reprints and is rich in retrospective materials, some dating to the 15th century. Major topics covered in the collection are zoology, geology and mineral sciences, paleontology, history of science, anthropology and astronomy.

With offices in New York, London, Paris and Berlin, the Bridgeman Art Library is a fee-based archive of fine art images, available both on and offline.

The gateway to all 60 locations of the Brooklyn Public Library, including the library catalog, events calendar, and electronic resources.

Links to web pages for all of the CUNY libraries, the library catalog, and electronic journals and reference databases.

Library homepages, catalogs, electronic resources, and other services.

A branch of The Smithsonian Institution Libraries, its 70,00 volumes "cover American and European design and decorative arts with concentrations in architecture, graphic design, interior design, ornamental patterns, furniture, wallcoverings, textiles, metalwork, glass, ceramics, and jewelry."

Library Homepage for NYU School of Medicine.

The Haskell library at the Alliance Francaise specializes in materials on contemporary France. Members may borrow materials and others may consult them onsite.

A subscription library with more than 120,000 volumes of current fiction, non-fiction, trade, and technical-related research materials, as well as a beautiful reading room.

Dedicated to the book arts, this collection of nearly 100,000 volumes is available to Club members and qualified researchers.

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

As part of the New York Institute, the library's mission is to "provide and preserve source material and services to support research on the collective history and culture of German-speaking Jewry." It includes a Family Research Department.

Library of Fordham University Law School.

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.

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 page provides user information for the various libraries at the Met, including the Watson research library, a Teacher Resource Center, a photograph collection, costume library and more.

All of the library's holdings--including books, periodicals, exhibition catalogues, and the vertical file--are searchable thorugh the MoMAs online database, DADABASE.

The Mertz Library has one of the world's most extensive collections of plant related resources. It is available both for research and general plant information.

The premier place to go for New York State genealogical research.

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.

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

A collection of 45,000 volumes of poetry, focusing on contemporary American poets, in a cozy SOHO location.

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

Supports the research programs of this University, devoted to biomedical research and contributed to 23 Nobel Prizes.

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

Links to the various libraries of the eight schools that make up this university. Visiting researchers must get approval before coming.

The Dag Hammarskjold Library, located in a non-public area of the UN Headquarters in Manhattan, is not open to the general public. However, the catalog, where you can find full-text documents, is available to anyone with Internet access.

Open to scholars only, the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library houses "the most comprehensive research collection in the field of twentieth-century American art."