Selections of the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses, covering the operatic canon.

Find “pro” and “con” arguments on controversial social issues.

Library users can use the sets within the Library. Sets are loaned to organizations that have established agreements with the Art, Music and Recreation Center of the San Francisco Public Library.

Most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today: Grove Art Online, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms; and many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online.

Over 55,000 biographies describing the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.

Authoritative guide to English language meaning, history, usage, and pronunciation.

Includes The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Grove Dictionary of Opera online.