Here you will find listed the primary libraries and databases of interest with respect to Icelandic music:

• The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies and the National Museum of Iceland preserve much of the Icelandic cultural heritage in the form of sound recordings and manuscripts.
  
  
• The Choral Public Domain Library – One of the world's largest free sheet music sites
  
  
• The National and University Library of Iceland – Audiovisual Department. The aim of the department is to collect all published Icelandic voice and music recordings and to provide facilities for music research.
  
  
• The Icelandic Current Research Information System - Currently, not much to be found here under "music".
  
  
• The Icelandic Folk Music Museum at Siglufjordur
  • Folk Music Festival at Siglufjordur
    
    
• Icelandic Libraries (menning.is)
  
  
• The Icelandic Music History Museum
  
  • Exhibits:[Nov. 10, 2009]
    • An Exhibit of Icelandic Jazz, Rock- and Blues Guitars at the Icelandic Music History Museum – Exhibit open November 3-17, 2009[Nov. 2, 2009]
      • Icelandic rock-, jazz- and blues guitarists (video)
    • Healthy Youth: Pönkið og Kópavogurinn 1978-1983 – An exhibition on the punk culture in Kopavogur 1978-1983[Sept. 24, 2009]
      
      
• The archive og the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service preserves a rich cultural treasure in the form of sound recordings, some dating back to 1930 when regular radio broadcasting began in Iceland.
  
  
• The Icelandic Music Information Center (ITM) keeps manuscripts of many Icelandic composers. ITM also distributes information on Icelandic music.
  
  
• The Icelandic Pop Music Museum in Keflavik collects popular music as well as items and documents that have value with respect to Icelandic popular music and its history.
  • Rock & Roll (Vagg og velta) – the exibition
    
    
• Timarit.is – Direct access to magazines from Iceland, Faroe Islands and Greenland.

• Ismus - Icelandic Music – project that aims at making Icelandic Music Heritage accessible on the Internet. Three main categories are currently on-line:
  • Manuscripts and print – pictures, transcriptions and sound recordings from music manuscripts preserved in the primary libraries and archives in Iceland.
  • Sound Archive – oldest sound recordings dome in Iceland.
  • The Folkloric Sound Archive – around 2000 hours af tape recorded folkloric material, collected from all over Iceland during the latter half of the 20th century
  • Icelandic Folk Songs – collected by rev. Bjarni Thorsteinsson (coming later this year)
    
    
• The Reykjavik City Library offers a considerable music collection.
  
  
• The Town Library of Hafnarfjörður has perhaps the lagest music division of any public library in Iceland.
  
  
• The Library of the Reykjavik College of Music stores sheet music and books on music.
  
  
• On the Iceland Symphony Web site you will find information on all composers and works performed by the orchestra during the 1998-99 season.
  
  
• Skífan now holds the rights to much of Icelandic music that has been released in the past.
  
  
• Electronic resources - information on the 31 databases and web libraries that all Icelanders have access to: 6.700 full text magazines, 330.000 works of Anglo American literature (full text), 3 encyclopaedias and 1 dictionary.

Varous information that relates to Icelandic music can also be found through the following addresses: