Access To The Libraries
The Libraries are open to museum staff, members, volunteers; School of the Art Institute faculty, students, and alumni; visiting curators and scholars; college and university students, faculty, and staff. Researchers who do not fall into any of the above categories may access the libraries, with a few restrictions. This is a noncirculating research library.
Visitors can access the Libraries' Catalog online. Also available through the website are images, finding aids to archival collections, and digitized special collections.
Selections from the archival image and text collections have been digitized and are searchable from the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries' website.
The archives include records on the following:
- Daniel Burnham
- Bruce Goff
- Bertrand Goldberg
- Walter and Marion Griffin
- Irving Penn
- Percier and Fontaine
- Louis Sullivan
- Mies van der Rohe
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Century of Progress
- World's Columbian Exposition
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