Repository for the documentation and visual study of Western Art. Open to scholars and art professionals both in person and via email or telephone.

Library information and electronic links, including access to the online catalog and Internet resources in the fine arts.

Research resources for art and architecture include print and electronic holdings, Internet links, access to the online catalog, and an online index to the picture collection.

Architecture library; houses information on Mies van der Rohe, Crown Hall, and the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology.

Holds, studies and exhibits a very large collection of rare books and manuscripts, photographs, works of art, items related to the performing arts, and twentieth-century literature and fine arts, principally American, British and French.

Collections cover architecture, city planning, historic preservation, history of art, landscape architecture, the studio arts and urban design. Holdings emphasize Western subjects, but includes materials on the arts of Islam, South Asia and the Far East.

Subject areas include art, art history, dance, film/media arts, music, photography, theatre, architecture, landscape architecture and planning.

Collection includes titles in music theory, performance, jazz, ethnic music, music psychology and others.

Access to the online catalog, provides news and information about the collections, services, exhibitions, publications and architectural links.

The William Morris Hunt Library collection includes over 280,000 items in Contemporary Art; Paintings; Drawings; Prints; Photographs; Decorative Arts; Textiles; Art of Asia, Oceania, Africa, Ancient America, and Ancient Egypt; and Classical art. The W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library houses a collection of over 18,000 volumes, supporting research on twentieth century and contemporary art.