Margaret Herrick LibraryFairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study
The Margaret Herrick Library collects a wide range of materials documenting film as both an art form and an industry. The library is supported through the Academy Foundation, the educational and cultural arm of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Although privately funded, the library is open to the public. One of the world's most extensive and comprehensive research collections on the subject of motion pictures, the library holds more than 32,000 books; 1,800 periodical titles; 60,000 screenplays; 200,000 clipping files; 30,000 posters; lobby cards, pressbooks and other advertising ephemera; over 8 million photographs; over 300 manuscript and other special collections relating to prominent industry individuals, studios and organizations; sheet music, music scores and sound recordings; production and costume sketches; artifacts; and oral histories. The Research Library, founded in 1928 and later named the Margaret Herrick Library after a former Academy librarian and long-time executive director, maintains a world-renowned, non-circulating reference and research collection devoted to the history and development of the motion picture as an art form and as an industry. It is regarded as one of the most complete collections of film-related materials ever assembled.
Margaret Herrick: http://www.oscars.org/mhl/biography.html
Library Director: Linda Harris Mehr
(310) 247-3000, extension 201
lmehr@oscars.org
The Margaret Herrick Library collects a wide range of materials documenting film as both an art form and an industry. The library is supported through the Academy Foundation, the educational and cultural arm of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Although privately funded, the library is open to the public. One of the world's most extensive and comprehensive research collections on the subject of motion pictures, the library holds more than 32,000 books; 1,800 periodical titles; 60,000 screenplays; 200,000 clipping files; 30,000 posters; lobby cards, pressbooks and other advertising ephemera; over 8 million photographs; over 300 manuscript and other special collections relating to prominent industry individuals, studios and organizations; sheet music, music scores and sound recordings; production and costume sketches; artifacts; and oral histories. The Research Library, founded in 1928 and later named the Margaret Herrick Library after a former Academy librarian and long-time executive director, maintains a world-renowned, non-circulating reference and research collection devoted to the history and development of the motion picture as an art form and as an industry. It is regarded as one of the most complete collections of film-related materials ever assembled.
Margaret Herrick: http://www.oscars.org/mhl/biography.html
Library Director: Linda Harris Mehr
(310) 247-3000, extension 201
lmehr@oscars.org
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