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The Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow Research Library of The Corning Museum of Glass is the world’s foremost library on the art and history of glass and glassmaking.

Find live streams, Bill Gudenrath Venetian technique videos, the popular Glassworking Processes and Properties series and so much more on YouTube.

New Glass Now Online: Featuring a mobile-friendly design, the site is your place to access all 100 glass art objects, installations, videos, and performances seen in the exhibition. Hear from the artists, designers & craftspeople themselves in short introduction videos they’ve shared. And, a fun way to explore all of the works in the exhibition is to sort the listing by color – you can also sort by size, country and artist’s name.

Searchable access to the Museum's comprehensive collection of art and historical glass. In-depth collections records include related multimedia, publications and exhibition information, as well as provenance, related objects and user tags.

You can search—in one place and all at once—most of the Library's collections (including digitized resources), our Glass Article Index, many of our subscription databases, plus millions of additional online resources that are either freely available or easy to request.

Locate archival collections and learn about their scope and content.

More than 30 years of images from the New Glass Review are available to view online. New Glass Review is an annual survey of glass in contemporary art, architecture, craft, and design created in the previous year by emerging and established artists, as well as students. The works are chosen by a changing jury of curators, artists, designers, art dealers, and critics.

All About Glass is a reference site on glass information with more than 900 videos, 200 articles, and 700 digital books from the Rakow Library, as well as glass term definitions and audio tour stops.

More than 30 guides covering glassmaking techniques, glass art and history, and Rakow Library collections

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a cooperative service among libraries for obtaining materials not available at your local library.

Search our knowledge base of frequently asked glass questions. You can also submit your question and one of the librarians at the Rakow will get back to you as soon as possible!

Ask curators or conservators a question about glass objects

Keep up with the Museum by reading new posts on the blog including the popular “How to Photograph Glass” series from the Museum’s pro photo team.