Art, Music & Recreation Center - 4th Floor

The Bernard Osher Foundation Art, Music and Recreation Center offers material about the visual arts, performing arts, music, sports and recreation. The Center features information on artists, architects, musicians, actors, filmmakers, dancers and other arts professionals and athletes -- primarily those who have lived and/or worked in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Newspaper Clipping Files

• Subject Index

• Artists File

• Musicians and Performing Artists File

Research Guides

• Music Research Tools (PDF)

• Musical Scores Call Numbers

• Northern California Composers - a finding list for composers active in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California (1840s to the present)

• Popular Songs (a research guide)

• Researching Classical Music at SFPL (PDF)

• Instructions on how to use Film and Television Literature Index With Full Text database (PDF)

Collections

• Etching and Engraving Picture File

• Scrapbooks of local theater, dance and music programs and reviews (1850-1956)

• Dorothy Starr Collection of songbooks, sheet music and instruction books

• Fakebooks Index - a database for searching the contents of fakebooks at the Library

• Orchestral Music Sets - a database for searching sets of scores and parts for orchestral music

• Music and spoken-word albums (33 1/3 rpm LPs) in this Center 
  -- music and spoken-word CDs, "The Vinyl Destination" (a new collection of 33 1/3 rpm LPs) and DVDs are located in the Audiovisual Center on the first floor

• Programs of Bay Area dance, music and theater performances by local and visiting individuals and companies (1910 to the present)

• Steve Silver Beach Blanket Babylon Music Center

Helpful Resources

• Architecture of the Main Library

• Art Works of the Main Library

• Museums and Art Galleries of San Francisco

• Art, Music & Recreation Center Blog