The majority is in the Bookstacks. Many are also in the Reference Library, the Undergraduate Library, and the Rare Book and Special Collections Library. Price, Larkin B. A Checklist of the Proust Holdings at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign. The University of Illinois Library and the Graduate School of Library Science, 1975. Also, any other language and regional variations of languages if the work is of significance.
Emphasis is on scholarly treatment rather than popularization, textbooks, and children's literature.
The Undergraduate Library normally collects more popular treatments and the Education and Social Sciences Library collects children's literature for its School Collection. In addition, juvenile literature is acquired very selectively and in most cases only when the author is an important literary figure. General, popular treatments of French culture are also acquired. Materials have subject focus on some aspect of the French and Provencal languages and literatures. Appropriate primary and secondary works, and bibliographic, and reference materials are acquired.