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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, is located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, in the Lincoln Center complex on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. Situated 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.

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]

List of New York Public Library branches

"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

Sydney Beck

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. . New York: New York Public Library, 1975. ISBN 0-8389-0125-5

Guide to the Research Collections of the New York Public Library

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