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Association of Architecture School Librarians

Arizona State University Architecture & Environmental Design Library

• Archival Drawings Collection
• Frank Lloyd Wright Ephemera Collection Description
• Solar Energy Collection

Art Institute of Chicago - Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
"Merged in 1957, the Libraries hold a research collection of 320,000 scholarly works, including 1,200 current serials subscriptions and 70,000 auction sales catalogs."

• Library Catalog
• Institutional Archives of The Art Institute of Chicago - (dead link)
  • Museum News Releases Index for 1969-1998 - (dead link)

Canadian Architecture Collection (CAC) - (dead link) "Its mandate is to document the work of past and present architects who have studied and/or taught at the McGill University School of Architecture and Urban planning. Through photographs, drawings, and corollary documentation, the CAC also seeks to represent the evolution of the McGill campus, the city of Montreal, and the architectural heritage of Quebec and Canada."
McGill University Libraries Special Collections

Carnegie Mellon Libraries Architecture Archives

• A Campus Renewed: A Decade of Building at Carnegie Mellon, 1974-1996
• Pittsburgh Architecture:A Guide to Research

Columbia University Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library

The Ernest R. Graham Study Center of Architectural Drawings - (dead link)
"...houses a distinguished collection of more than 130,000 architectural sketches and drawings. The collected works concentrate on designs by Chicago architects and for Chicago buildings from the 1870s to the present day."
The Art Institute of Chicago

International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)
"The purpose of the program is to document the history of women's involvement in architecture by collecting, preserving, storing, and making available to researchers the professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners, and the records of women's architectural organizations, from around the world. The IAWA focuses primarily on collecting the papers of those who practiced at a time when there were few women in the field (before the 1950's)."

• Biographical Directory of Women in Architecture

Irish Architectural Archive
"...They include the most significant body of historic Irish architectural drawings in the world, with in excess of 80,000 drawings ranging in date from the late seventeenth to the late twentieth centuries. Also housed in the Archive are over 300,000 photographs, making this one of the largest collections of photographs in Ireland, and an extensive reference library, with in excess of 11,000 items of printed matter."

Julia Morgan Collection
Special Collections Department, Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University

McGill University Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art - (dead link)

MIT Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning

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National Trust for Historic Preservation Library

New York Public Library Art & Architecture Collection

Royal Institute of British Architects Library - (dead link)

• Library Online Catalogue - (dead link)

S*P*I*R*O - Architecture Slide Library Search, University of California, Berkeley