Most holdings are on-line.
Penn's on-line services includes descriptions of Penn's fifteen libraries, listings of library hours, policies and key names and numbers. Bryn Mawr Library holdings related to African Studies are primarily housed in the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library which is the main library on campus. Appropriate materials may also be found in the Lois and Reginald Collier Science Library , and in the Art and Archaeology Library . Library holdings include early accounts of travel, exploration and description beginning with early sources and moving to the development of Africa as it emerges from its colonial past. Africana Studies at Bryn Mawr is a relatively new program.