New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Performing arts library

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' entrance from Lincoln Center Plaza at night

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, is located in Manhattan, New York City, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side, between the Metropolitan Opera House and the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It houses one of the world's largest collections of materials relating to the performing arts.[1][2][3] It is one of the four research centers of the New York Public Library's Research library system, and it is also one of the branch libraries.

## History[edit]

Buildings of Lincoln Center

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Buildings and structures in Lincoln Center:

Samuel B. and David Rose Building (includes Walter Reade Theater)

Juilliard School

Alice Tully Hall

Vivian Beaumont Theater (includes Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and Claire Tow Theater)

Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center

David Geffen Hall

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (includes Bruno Walter Auditorium)

Metropolitan Opera House

Josie Robertson Plaza with Revson Fountain

Damrosch Park

David H. Koch Theater

David Rubenstein Atrium

Jazz at Lincoln Center

### Founding and original configuration[edit]

Al Hirschfeld's desk and chair in the library's lobby

Originally the collections that formed The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (LPA) were housed in two buildings. The Research collections on Dance, Music, and Theatre were located at the New York Public Library Main Branch, now named the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, and the circulating music collection was located in the 58th Street Library.

A separate center to house performing arts was first proposed by Carleton Sprague Smith (chief of the Music Division) in a 1932 report to the library administration, "A Worthy Music Center for New York."[4] (At the time, dance materials and sound recordings were all part of the Music Division.) There were attempts to create partnerships with Rockefeller Center (under construction at the time), the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (to which New York University wanted to join as a partner). During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Music Division produced a program of concerts (based on the model of the Library of Congress concerts in Coolidge Auditorium). These concerts were often held in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Juilliard School, and the program grew to include Lectures from New York University staff.

After Lincoln Center was incorporated in 1956, an early mention of a possible "library and museum of the performing arts" appeared in June 1957.[5] It was envisioned that a library-museum would serve to "interpret and illuminate the entire range of the performing arts".[6] By December of that year, the library had become an accepted component of Lincoln Center planning and fundraising.[7] Recalling his earlier reports, Smith produced a new report arguing for a move to Lincoln Center. Library administration officially approved of the move in June 1959.[8]

The building housing the library's research collections and the Vivian Beaumont Theater was the third building to be opened at Lincoln Center.[9] Original plans conceived the library as a separate building, but prohibitive costs necessitated a combination of the Library and the Theater. As built, the Theater forms the central core of the building, the first and second floors occupying the southern and western sides, and the third-floor research collections providing a roof. Noted modernist architect Gordon Bunshaft, of the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), designed the interiors, and SOM consulted with Eero Saarinen and Associates (architect for the Vivian Beaumont Theater) on the exteriors.[10] The Claire Tow Theater (belonging to Lincoln Center Theater) was built on the roof of the Library and opened in June 2012.

The third floor, housing the research collections, opened to the public on July 19.[10] The entire library was opened to the public on November 30, 1965, the fourth building to open at Lincoln Center.[11] At its opening, it was called "Library and Museum of the Performing Arts". The Library's museum component was named the Shelby Cullom Davis Museum in honor of an investment banker who contributed $1 million to the Lincoln Center for museum purposes.[11]

At its opening, the Library's main lobby at the Lincoln Center Plaza entrance housed a bookstore, a film viewing area, and a listening area. The second floor included a children's performing arts collection as well as the Hecksher Oval, an enclosed space that could accommodate story-telling. Prior to the 2001 renovation, the children's collection was relocated to the Riverside Branch. The Hecksher Oval was removed as part of the renovation.

The Shelby Cullom Davis Museum spaces included small and separate areas in the Dance, Music, Sound archive and Theater research divisions. Bigger galleries were the Vincent Astor Gallery on the 2nd floor, and galleries on the lower level and 2nd floor.

### 2001 renovation[edit]

One of the Mapleson Cylinders, among the sound archive's most treasured items

From 1998 through 2001, the building was closed due to a $38 million renovation project designed by Polshek Partnership. (The renovation was unrelated to the Lincoln Center renovations which commenced shortly after 2001.) During this time, the research collections were serviced from the NYPL's Annex (at 10th Avenue and 43rd Street), and the circulating collections were housed in the Mid-Manhattan Library at 40th Street and Fifth Avenue. LPA reopened to the public on October 29, 2001, with its building newly named Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center after a gift from the Cullmans (Dorothy was a trustee until she died in 2009; Lewis died in 2019).[12]

During the renovation, the library was wired to enable installation of numerous computers on each floor. There are nearly 200 publicly accessible computers in the building.[13][better source needed] Most are restricted to use of the library catalog and electronic databases or viewing the library's audiovisual material, but a few provide full Internet access. The renovation also created a Technology Training Room, with twelve desktop computers for users and one for a teacher, as well as a projection screen.

Upon the building's original opening in 1965, each research division had a separate reading room. The renovation removed these and consolidated public areas into a single unified public reading area, with separate rooms for the Theater on Film and Tape Archive (its screening room named for Lucille Lortel) and Special Collections (its room named for Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic). Subsequently the Special Collections reading room was moved into a portion of the main reading area of the third floor, while a screening room for films held by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division and the Reserve Film and Video Collection (originally part of the Donnell Media Center, but absorbed into the Collection in 2008) took its place. Meanwhile, gallery space for the museum was consolidated into two main gallery spaces with smaller areas for display of other items. The Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery is located on the first floor, adjacent to the Lincoln Plaza entrance, while the Vincent Astor Gallery (formerly on the second floor) is now located on the lower level, adjacent to the Amsterdam Avenue entrance. A small area near the Lincoln Center Plaza entrance houses caricaturist Al Hirschfeld's desk and chair. The main corridors on the first and second floors are used for smaller exhibitions. The third floor has numerous display cases highlighting rotating displays of thematic groupings of artifacts from the collections.

The renovation was not without detractors. Critic Joseph Horowitz criticized the third floor in particular. Where previously each division had its own reading room, the renovation united all public reading areas into one room, resulting in less intimacy and more noise.[14] Edmund Morris characterized the Special Collections reading room as "a charmless space...[which] exudes a dispirited air of neglect."[15]

## Research collections[edit]

From its inception, LPA has had both a research component (funded mostly with private money) and a branch library component (funded with significant money from New York City, the remainder coming from private contributions).

### Materials and formats[edit]

File cabinets contain more than a million clippings at LPA

Hundreds of hours of rehearsal recordings feature Arturo Toscanini

In addition to published works (for example, books, periodicals, and scores), the research divisions collect an enormous amount of unique material: Archival material (material that was created by or that once belonged to an individual or organization), text manuscripts, music manuscripts, dance notation scores, typescripts, prompt books, posters, original set and costume designs, programs, and other ephemera are just some of the major categories of materials. The library's collection of sound recordings is in all formats that in themselves trace the history and development of sound recording.

The library has 500,000 folders containing clippings on a variety of people and subjects pertaining to the performing arts. These clippings can sometimes provide a beginning to those at the initial stage of their research. The library also collects a variety of iconography in various forms: photographs, lithographs, engravings, drawings, and others. A recent internal report estimated that LPA holds approximately 4.5 million photographs, including the recently acquired collection of New York photographer Martha Swope, itself holding 1 million photographs.

Much of this non-book material was not initially in the online catalog.[16] Some materials are accessible through in-house card files and indexes. Policy since changed to bring as much of the material as possible into the main catalog, and by 2013, most of it was accessible in the catalog. Because of the enormous volume of material, some classes of it, such as the clipping files, has never been inventoried, although it is arranged in a retrievable manner with an alphabetical or chronological arrangement. Unlike most U.S. public libraries, the research collections stacks are located in non-public areas and are not available for browsing. Patrons must determine what they want to view, fill out call slips, and submit the slips to library staff. Library staff then retrieves the material for the patron.

The holdings of LPA are divided by subject into divisions, which contain a number of special centers.

### Music Division[edit]

The Music Division, as a founding division of The New York Public Library, is the oldest of all the divisions at LPA. Its origins stem from the private library of banker Joseph William Drexel. Upon his death in 1888, his valuable library of 5,542 volumes and 766 pamphlets, known as the Drexel Collection, became part of the Lenox Library. The Astor Library also had an endowment that helped with the purchase of music. In 1895, upon the Lenox Library's consolidation with the Astor Library, the Music Division became one of the first subject divisions of The New York Public Library.[17][18]

According to The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the library has particular strong manuscript holdings in jazz, These include 400 of Benny Goodman's arrangements, and the arrangements made by Sy Oliver for musicians including Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, and Tommy Dorsey. It holds working scores of works by Ellington, and by Charles Mingus as well as extensive microlim copies of Mingus' manuscripts.[19]

Classical music manuscript holding include manuscripts by Bach, Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt, Glinka, Handel, Haydn, Korngold, Mozart, Paganini, Schubert, and Schumann.[20]

### Billy Rose Theatre Division[edit]

Theatre on Film and Tape room – dedicated to donor Lucille Lortel

The Library has been collecting theatrical materials for years prior to 1931, when the executors of David Belasco's estate offered the producer's holdings on the condition that a division be created. The Theatre Collection (as it was initially known) began on September 1, 1931. The division opened at Lincoln Center as the Theatre Collection. In 1956 the theatre collection of the New York Public Library was recognized with a Special Tony Award. In 1979, it was renamed the Billy Rose Theatre Division, honoring a financial gift from the lyricist/producer's foundation. It is now the largest research division at the library, with holdings primarily on the theatre, and increasing on film, with some collections on the related subjects of vaudeville, magic, puppetry, and the circus.[citation needed] The Theater of Film and Tape Archive is administratively within the division.

The Theatre division includes the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) which produces video recordings of New York and regional theater productions, and provides research access at its Lucille Lortel screening room. The collection is considered one of the most comprehensive collections of videotaped theater productions in the world.[21] Archives modeled on TOFT include the Museum of Performance & Design in San Francisco, the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive established in Washington, D.C., and the National Video Archive of Performance in London. The core of the collection consists of live recordings of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, with some additional productions from professional regional theaters. The Archive also records interviews and dialogues with notable theater professionals. In addition to live performances, commercial recordings of theater-related films, documentaries, and television programs are also included in the collection. Currently between 50 and 60 live recordings are produced each year, covering most important productions. As of fall of 2016, the collection included 7,901 titles.[22]

### Jerome Robbins Dance Division[edit]

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division began in 1944 under the auspices of Genevieve Oswald.[23] Originally dance materials were part of the Music Division (when it was known as the "Dance Collection"), but its growth necessitated hiring a full-time staff member in 1947.[24] Acquisitions were augmented by gifts of papers of Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and Hanya Holm. With the gift of a collection of Walter Toscanini in honor of his deceased wife, Cia Fornaroli (a dancer), the Dance Collection became an internationally known repository.[24] Due to its subsequent growth and increasing importance, the collection was formally recognized as a separate division on January 1, 1964.[25]

One of the division's most significant resources is the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image. Endowed with a gift from Jerome Robbins, this archive collects and preserves moving images of dance, making them available to researchers. The Archive has received many gifts from dancers and choreographers and contains many privately made films and video.[26]

The Division's oral history program began formally in 1965. These oral histories are particularly valuable since they provide information, history and context not generally available in published sources.[27]

### Reserve Film and Video[edit]

Screening room for the Reserve Film and Video collection; moviola and Steenbeck equipment are on the right

Though not technically a part of the Research divisions, the Reserve Film and Video Collection (formerly the Donnell Media Center) is serviced from the third floor. For film and video that must be viewed onsite, there is a screening room (large enough for classes) equipped with a 16 mm projector. There are also moviolas and Steenbeck equipment, permitting close frame-by-frame examination and analysis.

### Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound[edit]

The origins of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound can be traced to a gift of 500 78-rpm records by Columbia Records in 1937 to the Music Division. Successive gifts by record companies and individuals led to the formal creation of a separate division with the opening of the building at Lincoln Center in 1965. It was named in exchange for a private donation from the Rodgers and Hammerstein organization.[28] Radio station WQXR donated 11,000 78 rpm recordings in 1966.[29] Carleton Sprague Smith envisioned the purpose of the sound archive as "stimulating interest among recording and broadcasting executives, as well as other arts institutions that had potential for playing a cooperative role."[30] Resources include the Rigler-Deutsch Index, which lists of library's extensive holdings of 78 rpm records.

## Branch (Circulating) Collections[edit]

A portion of the circulating DVDs

Circulating CDs

The beginnings of the circulating music collection are due in great part to its first head librarian, Dorothy Lawton.[31] Lawton took part in the establishment of the music collection at the 58th Street Library in 1920, beginning with a collection of 1,000 books and scores. In 1924, the circulating music collection was officially established as part of the 58th Street Library.[32] Her passion for dance enabled her to get unusual publications, so much that dance critic John Martin complimented her on the growing collection of dance books.[33]

In 1929, the 58th Street Library began a collection of recordings beginning with gifts from Victor and Columbia records, amounting to 500 records. Upon building a listening booth, Lawton reported that by 1933, the listening booth was constantly booked two weeks in advance.[34]

During World War II, she established a concert series for servicemen on Sundays from 3–7 PM. Servicemen could request selections of their choice and could also participate in playing chamber music with instruments that had been loaned to the Library. She established the Orchestra Collection, a set of scores and parts that could be loaned to groups for performance. Currently, the Orchestra Collection loans parts to more than 2,000 works.[35]

Upon Lawton's retirement in 1945, chief music critic of The New York Times Olin Downes complimented her on the development of the 58th Street Library, and remarked on her achievements such as attracting donors and enlisting the concern and help of professional musicians.[36] (Many of the rare items that were gifts to the 58th Street Branch were subsequently moved to the Music Division.)

After retiring, Lawton returned to the country of her birth, England, and help organize a newly created music collection at Central Music Library of the Buckingham Palace Road Library (today the Westminster Music Library), modeling the new library on the one she established at 58th Street.[31][37][38] Currently, the Circulating collections loan books on music, dance, theater, film, and arts administration. They also loan scores, scripts, CDs, videotapes, DVDs, and sets of orchestral parts.

## Shelby Cullom Davis Museum[edit]

A display wall of the Shelby Cullom Davis Museum

The museum component of LPA takes the form of exhibitions in its two main exhibition spaces, The Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery and the Vincent Astor Gallery, as well as a walled area in the plaza entrance, and additionally display cases distributed throughout the building. Among the purposes of the exhibitions is to show to all visitors that the millions of items belonging to the library are not for the exclusive use of scholars but for anyone who walks in the door.[39] Exhibitions highlights items from the library's collections and keep the name of the library before the public, attracting new and potential donations.[40]

Since the late 1990s, NYPL's exhibitions program has added online exhibitions. Online exhibitions serve as an extension of physical exhibitions, adding more material or allowing a greater depth of exploration.

## Public programs[edit]

Public programs are free of charge and take place in the 202-seat Bruno Walter Auditorium located on the lower level. The auditorium is used several times a week for musical performances, film screenings and lectures.[41]

## See also[edit]

* Carleton Sprague Smith

## Further reading[edit]

* Sydney Beck, "Carleton Sprague Smith and the Shaping of a Great Music Library: Harbinger of a Center for the Performing Arts (Recollections of a Staff Member)" in: Libraries, History, Diplomacy, and the Performing Arts: Essays in Honor of Carleton Sprague Smith. Festschrift Series no. 9. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-945193-13-5
* Miller, Philip L. and Frank Campbell, "How the Music Division Grew-A Memoir (parts 1–2)", Notes, vol. 35, no. 3 (March 1979), pp. 537–555; part 3: vol. 36, no. 1 (September 1979), pp. 76–77; part 4: Vol. 38, No. 1 (September 1981), pp. 14–41.
* Williams, Sam P. Guide to the Research Collections of the New York Public Library. New York: New York Public Library, 1975. ISBN 0-8389-0125-5

## References[edit]

1. ^ The New York Public Library. "New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center". Nypl.org. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
2. ^ New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
3. ^ "New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | 40 Lincoln Center Plaza". Timeout.com. October 5, 2010. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
4. ^ Beck, p. 20ff.
5. ^ Howard Taubman (June 2, 1957). "Civic Pride: City Officials Should Work for Lincoln Center as a Municipal Necessity". The New York Times. p. 121.
6. ^ Beck, p. 38.
7. ^ "Committee Set Up To Seek Arts Fund". The New York Times. December 2, 1957. p. 29.
8. ^ Beck, p. 39.
9. ^ Milton Esterow (October 13, 1965). "Beaumont Theater Opens at Lincoln Center". The New York Times. p. 1.
10. ^ a b Allen Hughes, "Library and Museum 01 the Arts At Lincoln Center Ready Soon," The New York Times (October 21, 1965), p. 57.
11. ^ a b "Library-Museum of the Arts Opens at Lincoln Center". The New York Times. December 1, 1965. p. 55.
12. ^ Mel Gussow (October 11, 2001). "Curtain Going Up at the Performing Arts Library". The New York Times. p. E1.
13. ^ Personal communication from IT staff, May 12, 2011.
14. ^ Joseph Horowitz (January 27, 2002). "Quiet, Please. This Is a Library After All". The New York Times. p. A31.
15. ^ Edmund Morris (April 21, 2012). "Sacking a Palace of Culture". The New York Times. p. SR7.
16. ^ A 1995 brochure indicated that 80% of the materials at LPA were not in the online catalog.
17. ^ Williams, p. 142.
18. ^ Much of the content of this section is derived from the thorough history of the Music Division through 1981 in a four-part article: Philip L. Miller, Frank C. Campbell, Otto Kinkeldey, "How the Music Division of the New York Public Library Grew-A Memoir," Notes, Vol. 35, No. 3 (March 1979), pp. 537–555 (parts 1–2), Vol. 36, No. 1 (September 1979), pp. 65–77 (part 3), Vol. 38, No. 1 (September 1981), pp. 14–41 (part 4).
19. ^ "Libraries and archives." The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed.. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved March 28, 2013, [1].
20. ^ Rita Benton. "Libraries." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved March 28, 2013, [2]
21. ^ ["After the Final Curtain, Act II"], The New York Times (June 9, 2013).
22. ^ 2016 Annual Report
23. ^ Clive Barnes, "Dance: Collection Moves to New Home," The New York Times (January 4, 1966), p. 21.
24. ^ a b Williams, p. 151.
25. ^ Philip L. Miller (March 1979), "How the Music Division Grew-A Memoir," Notes, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 549.
26. ^ Williams, pp. 151, 154.
27. ^ Williams, p. 155.
28. ^ Williams, p. 149.
29. ^ "Lincoln Center Receives 11,000 Disks From WQXR," The New York Times (June 9, 1966), p. 53.
30. ^ David Hall, "The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center," in: Libraries, History, Diplomacy, and the Performing Arts: Essays in Honor of Carleton Sprague Smith, Festschrift Series no. 9 (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1991), p. 43.
31. ^ a b "Dorothy Lawton, Librarian, 85, Dies," The New York Times (February 21, 1960), p. 92.
32. ^ Circulating Music Collection. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
33. ^ John Martin (October 4, 1931). "The Dance: A Treasury: Important New Volumes Added to Growing Collection at Library". The New York Times. p. 116.
34. ^ Compton Pakenham (April 15, 1934). "Review of Newly Recorded Music". The New York Times. p. X6.
35. ^ website. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
36. ^ Olin Downes (July 8, 1945). "Librarian Retires: A Tribute to Dorothy Lawton-Her Contribution to Our Musical Life". The New York Times. p. 18.
37. ^ Olin Downes (August 10, 1947). "London Library: Music Institution Formed Along Lines of 58th Street Branch Here". The New York Times. p. X6.
38. ^ "London Library," The New York Times (November 14, 1948), p. X7.
39. ^ Eleanor Blau (May 29, 1991). "Performing Arts Library Celebrates". The New York Times. p. C14.
40. ^ Frank C. Campbell (September 1981), , "How the Music Division of the New York Public Library Grew-A Memoir, part 4" ,Notes, vol. 38, no. 1 p. 15.
41. ^ About Public Programs at the Library for the Performing Arts.

## External links[edit]

* Media related to New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Wikimedia Commons
* Official website

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* Boricua College Manhattan Campus
* Borough of Manhattan Community College
* City College of New York
* CUNY School of Professional Studies
* Columbia University
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* Graduate Center, CUNY
* Hunter College
* John Jay College of Criminal Justice
* The King's College
* The New School
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* New York University
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* Pace University

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* New York School of Applied Design for Women

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New York Public Library|

* Main Branch
* branches
* for the Performing Arts
* Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
* 53rd St
* 115th St
* Hamilton Grange
* Jefferson Market
* Ottendorfer
* Stavros Niarchos Foundation

This list is incomplete.

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Libraries in New York City

New York Public
Library (list)|

| Main libraries|

* Main Branch
* Library for the Performing Arts
* Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

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Branch libraries|

* 53rd Street Branch
* 115th Street Branch
* Bronx Library Center
* Hamilton Grange Branch
* Jefferson Market Branch
* Ottendorfer Branch
* Stavros Niarchos Foundation Branch
* Yorkville Branch

Brooklyn Public
Library (list)|

* Central Library
* Macon Branch

Queens Public
Library (list)|

* Children's Library Discovery Center

Other|

* Carnegie libraries

| Colleges and
universities|

* City University
* Baruch College (Newman Library)
* Bronx Community College Library
* John Jay College (Lloyd Sealy Library)
* Columbia University
* Columbia University Libraries
* Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
* Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
* Burke Library
* Butler Library
* C.V. Starr East Asian Library
* Jewish Theological Seminary Library
* Gottesman Libraries
* Rare Book & Manuscript Library
* Fordham University (William D. Walsh Family Library)
* The New School (Fogelman Library)
* New York University
* Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
* Tamiment Library
* Pratt Institute Libraries

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Museums and
other institutions|

* Frick Art Reference Library
* LuEsther T. Mertz Library
* Metropolitan Museum of Art
* Robert Goldwater Library
* Thomas J. Watson Library
* Morgan Library & Museum
* Stephen B. Luce Library

Organizations|

* Agudas Chassidei Chabad
* Austrian Cultural Forum New York
* Dance Notation Bureau
* The Free Black Women's Library
* Grolier Club
* Huntington Free Library and Reading Room
* Interference Archive
* Japan Society
* Livingston Library
* Metropolitan New York Library Council
* New York Academy of Medicine
* New York Law Institute
* New York Mercantile Library
* New York Society Library

Former|

| Public libraries|

* (BPL:) Business & Career Library
* (NYPL:) Science, Industry, and Business Library

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Colleges and
universities|

* Columbia: Low
* The New School: Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design
* NYU/BCC: Gould

Museums and
other institutions|

* Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America

Organizations|

* Astor Library
* Lenox Library

See also: Education in New York City

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Special Tony Award

1947–1975|

* Dora Chamberlain / Ira and Rita Katzenberg / Jules Leventhal / Burns Mantle / P. A. MacDonald / Vincent Sardi Sr. (1947)
* Vera Allen / Paul Beisman / Joe E. Brown / Cast of The Importance of Being Earnest / Robert W. Dowling / Experimental Theatre Inc. / Rosalind Gilder / June Lockhart / Mary Martin / George Pierce / James Whitmore (1948)
* No award (1949)
* Maurice Evans / Philip Faversham / Brock Pemberton (1950)
* Ruth Green (1951)
* Charles Boyer / Judy Garland / Edward Kook (1952)
* Danny Kaye / Beatrice Lillie (1953)
* No award (1954)
* Proscenium Productions (1955)
* Fourth Street Chekov Theatre / City Center / The New York Public Library Theatre Collection / The Shakespearewrights / The Threepenny Opera (1956)
* American Shakespeare Festival / Jean-Louis Barrault / Robert Russell Bennett / William Hammerstein / Joseph Harbuck / Paul Shyre (1957)
* Mrs. Martin Beck / New York Shakespeare Festival (1958)
* Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay / John Gielgud / Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante (1959)
* Burgess Meredith and James Thurber / John D. Rockefeller III (1960)
* David Merrick / The Theatre Guild (1961)
* Brooks Atkinson / Richard Rodgers / Franco Zeffirelli (1962)
* Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore / Irving Berlin / W. McNeil Lowry (1963)
* Eva Le Gallienne (1964)
* Gilbert Miller / Oliver Smith (1965)
* Helen Menken (1966)
* No award (1967)
* APA-Phoenix Theatre / Pearl Bailey / Carol Channing / Maurice Chevalier / Marlene Dietrich / Audrey Hepburn / David Merrick (1968)
* Leonard Bernstein / Carol Burnett / Rex Harrison / The National Theatre Company of Great Britain / The Negro Ensemble Company (1969)
* Noël Coward / Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt / New York Shakespeare Festival / Barbra Streisand (1970)
* Ingram Ash / Elliot Norton / Playbill / Roger L. Stevens (1971)
* Fiddler on the Roof / Ethel Merman / Richard Rodgers / The Theatre Guild-American Theatre Society (1972)
* The Actors Fund of America / John Lindsay / Shubert Organization (1973)
* Actors' Equity Association / A Moon for the Misbegotten / Candide / Peter Cook and Dudley Moore / Harold Friedlander / Bette Midler / Liza Minnelli / Theatre Development Fund / John F. Wharton (1974)
* Al Hirschfeld (1975)

1976–2000|

* George Abbott / Richard Burton / Circle in the Square Theatre / Thomas H. Fitzgerald / Mathilde Pincus (1976)
* Cheryl Crawford / Equity Liberty Theatre / Barry Manilow / National Theatre of the Deaf / Diana Ross / Lily Tomlin (1977)
* Irving Berlin / Stan Dragoti and Charles Moss (1978)
* Walter F. Diehl / Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center / Henry Fonda / Richard Rodgers (1979)
* Richard Fitzgerald / Helen Hayes / Mary Tyler Moore / Hobe Morrison (1980)
* Lena Horne (1981)
* Radio City Music Hall / The Actors Fund of America / Warner Communications (1982)
* No award (1983)
* A Chorus Line / Peter Feller / La Tragedie de Carmen (1984)
* Yul Brynner / New York State Council on the Arts (1985)
* No award (1986)
* George Abbott / Jackie Mason (1987)
* Brooklyn Academy of Music (1988)
* No award (1989)
* No award (1990–1992)
* Oklahoma! (1993)
* Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (1994)
* Carol Channing / National Endowment for the Arts / Harvey Sabinson (1995)
* No award (1996)
* Bernard B. Jacobs (1997)
* Edward E. Colton / Ben Edwards (1998)
* Uta Hagen / Arthur Miller / Isabelle Stevenson (1999)
* Dame Edna: The Royal Tour / T. Edward Hambleton (2000)

2001–present|

* Paul Gemignani (2001)
* Julie Harris / Robert Whitehead (2002)
* Cy Feuer / Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003)
* James M. Nederlander (2004)
* Edward Albee (2005)
* Sarah Jones / Harold Prince (2006)
* No award (2007)
* Robert Russell Bennett / Stephen Sondheim (2008)
* Jerry Herman (2009)
* Alan Ayckbourn / Marian Seldes (2010)
* Athol Fugard / Philip J. Smith (2011)
* Actors' Equity Association / Hugh Jackman (2012)
* Bernard Gersten / Ming Cho Lee / Paul Libin (2013)
* Jane Greenwood (2014)
* John Cameron Mitchell / Tommy Tune (2015)
* Sheldon Harnick / Marshall W. Mason / National Endowment for the Arts / Miles Wilkin (2016)
* James Earl Jones (2017)
* John Leguizamo / Andrew Lloyd Webber / Chita Rivera / Bruce Springsteen (2018)
* Rosemary Harris / Marin Mazzie / Terrence McNally / Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company / Jason Michael Webb / Harold Wheeler (2019)
* No Award (2020)
* The Broadway Advocacy Coalition / David Byrne's American Utopia / Freestyle Love Supreme / Graciela Daniele (2021)
* Angela Lansbury / James C. Nicola (2022)
* Joel Grey / John Kander (2023)

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