The majority are in the Bookstacks. The Modern Languages and Linguistics Library has a reference and core collection in the Reference Library. Other materials are located in the Undergraduate Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Library. Also any other language and regional variations if the work is significant. Current emphasis on 20th century.
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. Materials focusing on any aspect of the Portuguese and Gallegan languages and literatures. In addition, juvenile literature is acquired very selectively and usually only when the author is an important literary figure. Appropriate primary and secondary works, and bibliographic, and reference materials are acquired. Ordinarily, dissertations, theses and translations are selectively collected.