The Hoverter Archives and special collections, a conference room, a computer laboratory and additional offices are on the lower level. The archives contain historical items relevant to the college and forestry development in New York. The special collections area of the archives includes rare and valuable books and folios, as well as the Fletcher Steele collection on landscape architecture and the Thomas Cook collection on papermaking. Services provided by the library faculty and staff include a credit course in library research, orientation programs, class lectures, study guides, user aids and reference desk services. The use of information technology is critical to the educational experience at the college.
All clusters are open seven days a week during most of the academic year.
Syracuse University's Computing and Media Services manages over fifteen public computer clusters where ESF students have access to Windows and Macintosh computers, SUN workstations, as well as UNIX systems. The clusters in Baker Laboratory and Moon Library consist of Windows-platform microcomputers. Compatible plotters and laser printers are also found in these locations. From these clusters, students can search the holdings of the F. Franklin Moon Library, all Syracuse University collections, and have access to significant services through the ESF homepage and World Wide Web. All computers are networked to the ESF academic server with connections to Syracuse University's mainframe computers, the Internet and electronic mail.