Summertime: A Guide to Entertainment, Activities And Excursions : Discoveries : * If you’ve exhausted all of the usual tourist spots, it’s time to visit some destinations along the unbeaten path. : Home of the Emmy

The chance of a tourist seeing one of his favorite TV stars at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is about as likely as running into one on Hollywood Boulevard. But after all those years of watching the Emmy awards, you might just like to stop by the brand-new home of the academy, which sponsors the awards and maintains a document library and tape archive.

This is the academy’s first permanent home--it’s been using rented office spaces in various locations--and eventually its library will be open to researchers, spokesman Murray Weisman said.

In the meantime, the public can visit the Hall of Fame plaza in front of the North Hollywood building. This courtyard is dominated by a fountain with a 27-foot-high Emmy statue, plus bronze busts of 10 TV luminaries, including Milton Berle, William Paley, Norman Lear, Sid Caesar and the only woman in the group, Mary Tyler Moore.

Also, mounted on one of the outside walls are bas reliefs of Walter Cronkite, Steve Allen and George Burns and Gracie Allen.

Sculptures of Johnny Carson, Lucille Ball and Jack Benny will soon join them.

The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is at 5220 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood. Information: (818) 754-2800.