The Collection serves the teaching and research needs of the Departments of Physics and Astronomy. These are some of the areas of active collection. Crystallography, optics, spectroscopy, laser physics, are subjects also covered, but principal collections reside elsewhere.
Chemistry is the main source of materials in crystallography and spectroscopy.
Resources in optics, lasers and materials science are held primarily in the Engineering Library . Quantum mechanics is chiefly collected in the Physics Library , but meaningful collections exist in the Chemistry Library and in Engineering.