The library serves over 4,000 visitors each year and is open 35 hours per week. To maintain our collections and provide service to our many readers, we rely on the generosity of our donors as well as on grants and a portion of the museum's general operating budget. Areas within the library have been dedicated by contributions in honor of Philip L. Gildred, of Dominic and Rosa Alessio, and of the Alessio Brothers. Hours for our Members Use of the library is a privilege of museum membership. This is a research collection.
Circulation is limited to museum staff and docents only.
We are open to museum members as a reading library only. Our library holdings reflect our status as a general art museum with broad collecting interests. Our historical strengths are in the areas of Asian, American, and European art, especially Spanish Baroque and the Italian Renaissance. Catalogues raisonnes on artists represented in the museum's permanent collection are the cornerstone of the library's collection. We are the only library in this region with extensive materials related to connoisseurship, auctions and sales, and the art market.