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In November 2006, 67,000 volumes of the Burndy Library (47,000 rare books and 20,000 reference books), along with several hundred small manuscript collections and a collection of artwork and objects, were transferred to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California as a gift of the Dibner family and the Dibner Fund. [9]
The Huntington houses a permanent exhibition, Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World, in the 2,800-square-foot (260 m 2) Dibner Hall of the History of Science that displays approximately 150 books, manuscripts, photographs and objects from both the Burndy Library and the Huntington's non-Burndy holdings in the history of science and ...
The library's main exhibition hall showcases some of the most outstanding rare books and manuscripts in the collection, while the West Hall of the library hosts rotating exhibitions. The Dibner Hall of the History of Science is a permanent exhibition on the history of science with a focus on astronomy, natural history, medicine, and light.
By 1964, the Burndy Library collection totaled over 40,000 volumes and Dibner opened a new building in Norwalk, Connecticut, to house the Library. In 1974, Dibner donated one-quarter of the Burndy Library's holdings to the Smithsonian Institution to form the nucleus of a research library in the history of science and technology.
In 1976, ten thousand rare scientific books and manuscripts were gifted to the Smithsonian by the Burndy Library, prompting the creation of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology under the Smithsonian umbrella. [5]
Alexander Campbell King Law Library; Allen Memorial Medical Library; Alumni Hall (Miami University) Alvin Sherman Library; Andersen Library (University of Wisconsin Whitewater) Architecture Studies Library; Armstrong Browning Library & Museum; Arthur W. Diamond Law Library; Aubrey Watzek Library; Auraria Library; Avery Architectural and Fine ...
Tribune Content Agency library [14] [15] Western Publishing/Golden Books/Gold Key Comics/Golden Book Video library Broadway Video's former family entertainment library Tomorrow Entertainment library (pre-1974) Rankin/Bass Productions (pre-September 1974) Total Television library (excluding the 2007 Underdog film, owned by Disney)
Burndy Library - formerly in Norwalk, collection is now in The Huntington Library in San Marino, California and in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Children's Garbage Museum, Stratford - closed in 2011; Connecticut Cellar Savers Fire Museum, Portland [23]