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Institution names followed by SIBMAS Member  are members of SIBMAS


American Conservatory of Music
Robert R. McCormick Memorial Library

      Date founded: 1962
 
 
36 South Wabash Avenue, Ste 800
Chicago, IL 60603
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 263 4161
Telefax: +1 (312) 263 5832
E-mail: amerconsmu@aol.com
Homepage: http://members.aol.com/amerconsmu/index.html

Subjects:
Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Sound recordings/CDs.


Chicago Historical Society
Research Collections

      Date founded: 1856
 
 
1601 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60614-6099
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 642 4600
Telefax: +1 (312) 266 2077
Monday: 9:30-16:30
Tuesday: 9:30-16:30
Wednesday: 9:30-16:30
Thursday: 9:30-16:30
Friday: 9:30-16:30
Saturday: 9:30-16:30

Media:
Books.


Chicago Public Library
Chicago Theatre Collection

      Date founded: 1977
 
 
Special Collections
400 South State Street
Chicago, IL 60605
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 747 4882
Telefax: +1 (312) 747 4887
Homepage: http://www.chipublib.org/
Sunday: 13:00-17:00
Monday: 12:00-18:00
Tuesday: 12:00-18:00
Wednesday: 12:00-16:00
Thursday: 12:00-18:00
Friday: 12:00-16:00
Saturday: 12:00-16:00

Holdings added.
Catalogs: Computerized. Card. Printed
On-site use only.
Reproductions: By user. In house.
Exhibitions.

Subjects:
Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Ballet/dance. Children's theatre. Puppet theatre. Variety/music hall. Amateur theatre. Theatre architecture.
Media:
Books. Playtexts. Photos. Promptbooks. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Programmes. Clippings. Posters. Designs/Plans. Videos/films/DVDs. Official documents. Scores/libretti/music. Sound recordings/CDs. Production material.
Special Collections:
Theatre (Chicago)

Body Politic
Chicago Medieval Players
Free Street
Goodman Theatre
Imagination Theatre
International Theatre Festival
Kuumba
Magic Circle
Organic Theatre
Pegasus Players
Victory Gardens

St. Nicolas
Stormfield


Chicago Public Library
Visual and Performing Arts Center
 
 
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South State Street
Chicago, IL 60603
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 747 4999
Homepage: http://www.chipublib.org/
Sunday: 13:00-17:00
Monday: 9:00-19:00
Tuesday: 11:00-19:00
Wednesday: 9:00-17:00
Thursday: 11:00-17:00
Friday: 9:00-17:00
Saturday: 9:00-17:00

Holdings added. Holdings closed.
Catalogs: Computerized. Card. Printed. Other
On-site use only. Materials loan. Interlibrary loan. Exchange of material.
Reproductions: By user. In house.
Exhibitions.

Subjects:
Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Ballet/dance. Pantomime/mime. Children's theatre. Puppet theatre. Cabaret/Kabaret. Variety/music hall. Amateur theatre. Theatre architecture. Circus. Cinema. Radio/TV. Festivals. Music/Music performance. Public celebrations. Other.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Photos. Promptbooks. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Programmes. Clippings. Designs/Plans. Videos/films/DVDs. Official documents. Scores/libretti/music. Memorabilia. Sound recordings/CDs.
Special Collections:
Architecture (Chicago)
Artists (Chicago)
Blues (Chicago)
Dance, folk
Entertainers (Illinois)
Playbills (Chicago) (1937-1978)

Jubilee Showcase [Gospel]
Wisconsin/Warner Brothers Screenplay Series

Balaban and Katz Theater Orchestra Collection [WGN Radio Music Library]
Jussi Björling (1911-1960), opera singer [audio archives]
Dick Buckley [Archives of Recorded Jazz]
Arnold Jacobsen [recorded sound collection]
Martin and Morris Gospel Sheet Music Collection
Frank McNulty [WLS-TV collection]
Ruth Page [dance collection]
Stanley Paul
Charles A. Sengstock [Chicago dance band collection]
Elisa Stigler [dance book collection]
Van Damm Collection (1919-1961) [New York theater photographs]


Columbia College Chicago
Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
Research Library
 
 
623 Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
Mail:
      600 South Michigan Avenue
      Chicago, IL 60605

Telephone: +1 (312) 344 7586
Telefax: +1 (312) 344 8029
Homepage: http://www.cbmr.org/lib/
Monday: 9:00-17:00
Tuesday: 9:00-17:00
Wednesday: 9:00-17:00
Thursday: 9:00-17:00
Friday: 9:00-17:00

Subjects:
Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Photos. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Programmes. Clippings. Videos/films/DVDs. Scores/libretti/music.
Special Collections:
Composer scores
Composers, black
Music (Afro-American)
Music, black
Music, gospel
Sound recordings

De Paur Infantry Chorus [photos]
Garifuna Collection
William Grant Still Music
Society of Black Composers

Alton Augustus Adams (1889-1987)
Leslie Adams, composer
David Baker, composer
William C. (Bill) Banfield, composer
Ed Bland, composer
Charles Brown, composer
Glenn Burleigh, composer
Wallace Cheatham, composer
Lee V. Cloud, composer
Eddi Curtis (1927-1983)
Dominique-René De Lerma (1928-)
Lillian Evanti (1890-1967)
James Furman (1937-1989)
Talib Rasul Hakim (1940-1988)
Eugene Wilson Hancock, composer
Edmund Thornton Jenkins (1894-1926)
Melba Liston (1926-1999)
Richard Moffatt, composer
Joyce Solomon Moorman, composer
Stephen Newby, composer
James Newton, composer
Edford Providence, composer
Daniel Roumain, composer
Irene Britton Smith (1907-1999)
Delores White, composer
Martin Williams (1924-1992)
Michael Woods, composer
Wendell G. Wright (1921-2000)


Columbia College
Dance Center
 
 
4730 North Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60640
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 271 7804


Columbia College
Library

      Date founded: 1890
 
 
600 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605-1996
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 344 7906
Telefax: +1 (312) 663 1707
E-mail: library@mail.colum.edu
Homepage: http://www.colum.edu/

Special Collections:
Black music
Dance


DePaul University
Goodman School of Drama
 
 
Chicago, IL 60604
 


DePaul University
University Libraries

      Date founded: 1898
 
 
2350 North Kenmore Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
 

Telephone: +1 (773) 325- 7000
Telefax: +1 (773) 325- 7869
E-mail: dbrown@uppost.depaul.edu
Homepage: http://www.lib.depaul.edu/


Dusable Museum of African American History  
 
740 East 56th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
 

Telephone: +1 (773) 947 0060

Special Collections:
Dance


The Museum of Broadcast Communications
      Date founded: 1987
 
 
Chicago Cultural Center
Michigan Avenue at Washington Street
Chicago, IL 60602-4801
Mail:
      Chicago Cultural Center
     78 E. Washington Street
      Chicago, IL 60602-3407

Telephone: +1 (312) 629 6000
Telefax: +1 (312) 629 6009
E-mail: webmaster@museum.tv
Homepage: http://www.museum.tv/
Sunday: 12:00-17:00 (museum)
Monday: 10:00-16:30
Tuesday: 10:00-16:30
Wednesday: 10:00-16:30
Thursday: 10:00-16:30
Friday: 10:00-16:30
Saturday: 10:00-16:30

Special Collections:
Commercials, radio
Commercials, television

Radio Hall of Fame

Edgar Bergen (1903-1978), ventriloquist


The Newberry Library
      Date founded: 1887
 
 
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-3394
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 943 9090
Telefax: +1 (312) 255 3513
E-mail: furmans@newberry.org
Homepage: http://www.newberry.org/
Tuesday: 10:00-18:00
Wednesday: 10:00-18:00
Thursday: 10:00-18:00
Friday: 9:00-17:00
Saturday: 9:00-17:00

Holdings added.
Catalogs: Computerized. Card. Printed. Other
On-site use only. Materials loan. Interlibrary loan. Exchange of material.
Reproductions: In house.
Exhibitions.

Subjects:
Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Ballet/dance. Cabaret/Kabaret. Variety/music hall. Theatre architecture. Festivals. Music/Music performance. Public celebrations. Other.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Playtexts. Photos. Promptbooks. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Programmes. Clippings. Posters. Videos/films/DVDs. Official documents. Scores/libretti/music. Paintings. Graphics. Statuary. Objects d'art. Memorabilia. Sound recordings/CDs.
Special Collections:
Chicago Dance Archive Manuscripts (Midwest)


Chicago City Ballet
Hubbard Street Dance Company


Ruth Page Foundation  
 
1016 North Dearborn
Chicago, IL 60610
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 337 6543

Special Collections:
Dance

Ruth Page


Polish Museum of America
Library

      Date founded: 1913
 
 
984 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 384 3352
Telefax: +1 (312) 384 3799
Monday: 10:00-16:00
Tuesday: 10:00-16:00
Wednesday: 10:00-16:00
Thursday: 10:00-16:00
Friday: 10:00-16:00
Saturday: 10:00-16:00


Roosevelt University
Murray-Green Library

      Date founded: 1945
 
 
430 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 341 3640
Telefax: +1 (312) 341 2425
E-mail: ajones@acfsysv.roosevelt.edu


Roosevelt University
Music Library

      Date founded: 1945
 
 
430 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605-1394
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 341 3640
Telefax: +1 (312) 341 2425

Media:
Books. Periodicals. Scores/libretti/music. Sound recordings/CDs.


School of the Art Institute of Chicago
John M. Flaxman Library

      Date founded: 1968
 
 
37 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 899 5097
Telefax: +1 (312) 899 1465

Special Collections:
Film Studies


Showmen's League of America  
 
300 W. Randolph Street
Chicago, IL 60606-1705
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 332 6236


Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Norman and Helen Asher Library

      Date founded: 1925
 
 
618 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 922 8248
Telefax: +1 (312) 922 0455
E-mail: asherlib@spertus.edu
Homepage: http://www.spertus.edu/

Media:
Books. Sound recordings/CDs.
Special Collections:
Music (Jewish)


University of Chicago
University Library
Department of Special Collections

      Date founded: 1892
 
 
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637-1502
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 702 8705
Telefax: +1 (312) 702 0853
E-mail: reg-reference@lib.uchicago.edu
Homepage: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/
Monday: 8:30-16:45
Tuesday: 8:30-16:45
Wednesday: 8:30-16:45
Thursday: 8:30-16:45
Friday: 8:30-16:45
Saturday: 9:00-12:45

Written application required. Holdings added.
Catalogs: Computerized. Card
On-site use only.
Reproductions: By user. By company.
Exhibitions.

Subjects:
Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Variety/music hall. Amateur theatre. Theatre architecture. Cinema. Radio/TV.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Playtexts. Photos. Promptbooks. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Programmes. Clippings. Scores/libretti/music.
Special Collections:
Fred Aktinson [American drama collection]
Celia Austrian [English drama collection, 18th-early 19th century]
Delia Austrian [English drama collection, 18th-early 19th century]
Barnet Beyer [acting editions collection]
William Briggs [collection of drama reviews, 1894-1931]
Samuel Goldman [vaudeville skits]
W. Lincke [collection]
Charles Morton [popular play collection]
Napier Wilt [Chicago theatre reviews]


University of Illinois, Chicago
University Library

      Date founded: 1947
 
 
801 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL
Mail:
      Box 8198
      Chicago, IL 60680

Telephone: +1 (312) 996 2716
Telefax: +1 (312) 413 0424
Homepage: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/


VanderCook College of Music
Harry Ruppel Memorial Library

      Date founded: 1967
 
 
3140 South Federal Street
Chicago, IL 60616-3731
 

Telephone: +1 (312) 225 6288
Telefax: +1 (312) 225 5211
E-mail: widmer@psinet.com
Homepage: http://www.mcs.com/~vcmusic/
Monday: 8:30-17:00
Wednesday: 8:30-17:00
Thursday: 8:30-17:00

Holdings added.
Catalogs: Card
On-site use only. Interlibrary loan.
Reproductions: By user. In house.

Subjects:
Opera. Operetta/Musical. Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Programmes. Videos/films/DVDs. Scores/libretti/music. Sound recordings/CDs. Other.
Special Collections:
Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic [recordings, filmstrips, programmes]

Artman Collection of Choral Music
Williamson Collection of Jazz Recordings


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