Arts Management: Archives, Libraries, Museums, & Digital Collections

serve as reference for countless dissertations, exhibitions, catalogs, articles, and books on American art and artists.

Dadabase is the online catalog of The Museum of Modern Art Library and Study Centers, with selected holdings of the Museum Archives. Dadabase is part of Arcade, the catalog of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC).

makes accessible the digital content of libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies. DPLA is a distributed effort comprised of records contributed from various institutions. Each record links to the original object in the content provider’s website. Linked items include a diversity of formats: text, image, sound, and moving image. DPLA itself houses no content. As a distributed system, DPLA’s work occurs through two hubs: Content and Service. Content hubs are large repositories of digital data. Service hubs aggregate the data of providers and provide them with various services. Many linked items are in the public domain and may be downloaded. DPLA is designed to work with the European Union’s parallel effort Europeana.

serves as an interface to books and other textual material, paintings and other images, films, and objects. This database is freely available to the general public via the Internet.

provides a research portal for those interested in the history of the New York State. This database brings together hundreds of digital collections which are freely accessible from libraries, museums, and archives throughout the state.

is an interactive, integrated system applying established national standards to manage, describe, and provide access to research resources held primarily by the Institution's libraries, archives, and research units in support of the Institution's mission. SIRIS supports the Smithsonian research community by providing a gateway to and from other Institution information resources and to external information resources.

digitized historic photographs, advertisements, texts & more from UB's unique library collections.