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The '''Margaret Herrick Library,''' located in [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]], [[California]], is the main repository of print, graphic and research materials of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS). The library contains a digital repository and has historical materials that include those relating to the [[Oscars]] awards show.<ref name="HReporter">{{cite news|last1=Lewis|first1=Hilary|title=Oscars: Who Came Up With the Name "Oscar" and More About the Statuette's History (Video)|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-who-came-up-name-774775|accessdate=3 February 2016|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=18 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="AMPAS">{{cite news|last1=Osborne|first1=Robert|title=The Origin of Oscar|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_thW3N98cFQ|accessdate=3 February 2016|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=17 February 2015|format=video}}</ref>

== Collection ==
The library has in excess of 1,000 collections including original film scripts, movie production records, correspondence and other materials pertaining to movie studios, production companies, individuals, and professional organizations.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

The library also collects and maintains [[oral histories]] of the industry.<ref name="LibGig-Spotlight-Herrick-2008">{{cite news|title=Spotlight: The Margaret Herrick Library in Los Angeles|url=http://www.libgig.com/herrick|accessdate=4 February 2016|work=LibGig|date=2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011211545/http://www.libgig.com/herrick|archivedate=11 October 2008}}</ref>

== History ==
The original research library was created in 1928, a year after the founding of AMPAS.<ref name=AMPAS-FilmHistoryTrailblazer-2015>{{cite news|title=Margaret Herrick, Film History Trailblazer|url=http://www.oscars.org/news/margaret-herrick-film-history-trailblazer|accessdate=3 February 2016|work=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]|date=22 September 2015}}</ref><ref name=ALA-LoveLibraries-HarrisMehr-2011>{{cite web|title=Margaret Herrick, The Academy's First Librarian|url=http://www.ilovelibraries.org/article/margaret-herrick-academy’s-first-librarian|work=I Love Libraries|publisher=[[American Library Association]]|accessdate=23 September 2013|date=February 2011}}</ref> It is funded by the Academy Foundation, which is AMPAS' educational division. It one of the biggest film research libraries in the world,{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} holding in excess of 32,000 books, 80,000 screenplays, and 300,000 files of clippings. Other materials at the library are 35,000 posters, 10 million photographs, copies of 2,400 periodicals, costume and production and costume sketches, sheet music and musical scores, and advertising materials, including press books and lobby cards. There are also artifacts such as Academy Award statuettes. The library is governed by the Academy's Board of Governors.<ref name=AMPAS-FilmHistoryTrailblazer-2015 />

In 1947, Herrick was responsible for the first acquisition of an archival collection: the [[William Selig]] collection.<ref name=AMPAS-FilmHistoryTrailblazer-2015 />

In 1953, Herrick worked to have the [[Oscars]] broadcast on television, which allowed the award ceremony and the library to become financially independent of the studios, upon which the show and library had been previously wholly reliant.<ref name=AMPAS-FilmHistoryTrailblazer-2015 />

AMPAS' research library was renamed for [[Margaret Herrick]], who served as AMPAS librarian from 1936 to 1943 before becoming executive director from 1945 to 1971, upon her retirement in 1971. Dedicated to AMPAS' mission of broadening the film industry's educational and cultural outreach, Herrick was responsible for establishing the library as a world-class research institution.<ref name=ALA-LoveLibraries-HarrisMehr-2011 />

In its inception, the Academy library had offices in the [[Roosevelt Hotel (Hollywood)|Roosevelt Hotel]].<ref name=AMPAS-FilmHistoryTrailblazer-2015 /> The library moved to its current building, a former waterworks, in [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] in 1991.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02763915.2010.526475?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=wjcl20|doi=10.1080/02763915.2010.526475|title=The Margaret Herrick Library: Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences|year=2010|last1=Kinder|first1=Larry Sean|journal=Community & Junior College Libraries|volume=16|issue=4|pages=264–266}}</ref><ref>''[https://www.laconservancy.org/issues/beverly-hills-waterworks-building-fairbanks-center-motion-picture-study Beverly Hills Waterworks Building / Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study]''. In: laconservancy.org, date 14 July 2020.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Margaret Herrick]]
* [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|last1=Sands|first1=Pierre Norman|title=A Historical Study of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1927–1947)|date=1973|publisher=Arno Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-405-04100-6|oclc=340397}} (Originally presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Southern California]], Arno Press Cinema Program, 1966.)
* {{cite book|last1=Slide|first1=Anthony|title=The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry|date=2014|publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=Hoboken|isbn=978-1-135-92554-3|pages=1–2|oclc=871224495}}

== External links ==
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* {{official website|http://www.oscars.org/library/}}
* [http://digitalcollections.oscars.org/ Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections]

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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Beverly Hills, California]]
[[Category:Libraries in Los Angeles County, California]]
[[Category:Film archives in the United States]]
[[Category:Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]
[[Category:Photo archives in the United States]]
[[Category:Cinema of Southern California]]
[[Category:Film organizations in the United States]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1928]]
[[Category:1928 establishments in California]]

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