The Avery collection, one of the world's outstanding collections in the field of architecture, also includes materials on archaeology and the decorative arts. The Fine Arts collection represents the range of literature in art history. The Ware collection, the library's only circulating collection, is composed primarily of urban planning, housing and real estate development materials, as well as some core English language art and architecture books. Cornell University Fine Arts Library includes information about the library, links to Cornell University resources and links to related internet sites. The Frances Loeb Library at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, holds over 250,000 volumes, and maintains subscriptions to about 1,650 periodicals.
Comprehensive coverage is provided for all levels of technology and research in the design fields.
Collections also include U.S. Census of Population and Housing and census reports for Massachusetts and Boston. The Rotch Library Visual Collections contains slides, photographs, films, videodiscs, videotapes and CD-ROMS in the fields of art, architecture, building technology, city planning, photography, environmental design, anthropology, and archaeology. The Art Library at Michigan State University, houses MSU Libraries' collections for the visual arts, architecture and photography . The Art Library supports research and teaching in the visual arts and architecture, art education, human environment and design, and museum studies. As a research and reference library, much of the collection is non-circulating.