The Music program's collection includes more than 10,000 CDs, cassettes and vinyl recordings of world classical, traditional and popular musics. This material complements the MacOdrum's Library's collection of musical scores and recordings. The Canadian part of this collection is the largest outside the Canadian Music Centre. The Art History slide collection contains more than 200,000 slides, with special strengths in European and North American art, architecture and photography, including works by Canadian and native Canadian artists. The University Art Gallery is a major Art History teaching and research facility that is especially strong in Canadian and Inuit art and houses upwards of 22,000 items.
All collections are particularly strong in areas of faculty research activity.
Additions continue to be made to all collections with the support of an annual budget earmarked for acquisitions. Projection, playback and recording equipment Regular classrooms in use by the Art History and Film Studies programs contain 16 mm, video, laser disc and slide projection capabilities. Fully modern playback equipment is available for music study and research. There is also a computer music studio housed in the nearby Loeb Building with both MacIntosh and IBM applications and requisite software and processing modules. Two flatbed viewing tables are available for the close study and analysis of both 16 mm and 35 mm film.