| San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum SFPALM preserves and makes accessible materials about the performing arts, with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area's performing arts heritage from the Gold Rush to the present. It contains more than two million items, including books,photographs, programs, playbills, newspaper clippings, audio and video tapes, costume and set designs, and other artifacts. SFPALM also houses the archives of the San Francisco Ballet, Opera, and Symphony, as well as the Stern Grove Festival. http://www.sfpalm.org/ - Read more | Performing Arts Reading Room The Performing Arts Reading Room is the service point for the broad and diverse collections of the Music Division at the Library of Congress. Numbering approximately 12 million items and spanning more than 800 years of Western music history and practice, these holdings include the classified music and book collections, music and literary manuscripts and related artifacts, music-related periodicals and microforms, copyright deposits, and five collections of musical instruments. http://www.loc.gov/ - Read more | | |