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The Costume Institute's Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is more commonly known as The Costume Institute Library.[1] It is known as one of the world's foremost fashion libraries.[2] The collection contains over thirty thousand books, nearly seven hundred periodical titles, and over fifteen hundred designer files.[3] The documents pertain to worldwide fashion and clothing history from the sixteenth century to today.[3]