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AHDS Digital Resources on Performing Arts (UK)
The Arts and Humanities Data Service is a UK national service funded by the JISC and AHRB to collect, preserve and promote the electronic resources which result from research and teaching in the arts and humanities. AHDS Performing Arts is working towards developing a greater understanding of how the higher education community uses digital resources and how we can offer new opportunities for research in music, theatre, dance, film, television, and radio. The draft data gathered for AHDS Performing Arts Survey on the Use of Digital Collections can be accessed from the following link:
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/online%20collections_4may.pdf
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Baltic is a major new international centre for Contemporary Art, situated on the South Bank of the river Tyne, Gateshead, UK. The BALTIC Library and Archive database provides a complete catalogue of all books, periodicals and archive material held in the collection and gives online access to many of the films, audio files, images and publicity material including recent performance art and experimental theatre resources:
http://archive.balticmill.com/
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Départment des Arts du Spectacle (National Library of France, Performing Arts Department)
Extensive resource including special collections of The Living Theatre and Jean-Louis Barrault.
www.bnf.fr/
Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts
The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts has been established to support, promote and disseminate the research in the Faculty of Arts. Holds extensive research facilities including Events, Seminars, Conferences and regularly updated Research News.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/
British Library Sound Archive
The British Library is the national library of the UK and one of the world's greatest libraries. Receives a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland. Houses manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores and patents as well as a Sound Archive with sound recordings from the nineteenth century to the present.
www.bl.uk
Fales Library, New York University
Based in New York, USA, includes Downtown Collection which documents downtown New York art and literary scene from 1975 to present.
www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Library
The Academy library has a comprehensive collection of carefully selected titles in dance, drama, film, music, television and the related technical arts. There is a strong emphasis on practical performing scores, plays, audio recordings of music materials and video recordings in dance, drama and film.
National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Based in London, UK, the NAL at the V&A museum is a major public reference library. Its strength lies in the range and depth of its holdings of documentary material concerning the fine and decorative arts of many countries and periods.
www.vam.ac.uk/nal/index/html
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
www.nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.html
Tate Modern
Specialising in British and International Modern Art, the Tate Modern is located in London, UK and holds an extensive archive and research facilities. Researchers may use the Tate Libraryh and Archive collections in the Hyman Kreitman Research Centre as well as accessing on-line resources.
http://www.tate.org.uk/research/
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