Seldom-used English language monographs, foreign language monographs, and older volumes of serials are in the Bookstacks. English is the dominant language of the collection. Materials in Western Europe languages are also collected in varying degrees of intensity. Materials in Slavic and Eastern European languages and materials in Asian and Middle Eastern languages are collected only in cooperation with the Slavic and Eastern European Library and the Asian Library, respectively. Works of unusual significance in the discipline are acquired in the original language.
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. Special emphasis is placed on clinical and educational audiology, language development and its disorders, and speech and language pathology. Specifically, diagnosis, therapy, and research in all aspects of communicative disorders with adults and children including aphasia, articulation, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, head trauma, hearing impairment, laryngectomy, preschool and school-age language, stuttering, voice, etc., are within the scope of Speech and Hearing. Audiological instrumentation and assessment, hearing aid evaluation and treatment, and aural rehabilitation are included also. Anatomical and physiological aspects of audition and the speech mechanism are collected by the Biology Library.