The Main Reading Room of the Library contains reference books, current periodicals, selected new books, announcements, guides and finding aids to the Library's resources. This room is devoted to the use of electronic resources, offering microform readers and printer, multimedia and CD-ROM workstations, and outlets for laptop use. Some services, such as access to restricted materials, may be limited on Saturdays.
Library stacks are closed to the public.
Items requested are brought to the Main Reading Room by pages. Readers are limited to a maximum of 20 requests for book materials and 20 requests for photographic material per day.