The Library also provides electronic access to approximately 70 databases, many containing full-text periodical articles. The Library is a RLG member and uses Ariel to enhance its active document delivery service. The book collection is organized according to the U.S. Library of Congress classification system, on open stacks accessible to all users. The Library recently migrated to a new automated system with expanding searching capabilities. The new system adds a Web dimension and several features for the remote user.
Library instruction is offered in all fields to students, faculty, staff and visitors.
Classes are held in the Library Instruction Laboratory. The professional library staff participates in ongoing continuing education programs, which are supported by the Jesse Duggan Memorial Fund. As a branch of the AUC Library, it operates as a scholarly research facility and a teaching resource center specializing in the civilization of ancient, medieval, and Modern Egypt and the region. The current holdings of over 50,000 books, manuscripts, photographs, slides, maps and plans attract researchers from all over the world. The AUC archives are also located there.