The audio-visual collection includes contemporary media as well as the Historic Music Recordings Collection. Channel listening, used to play selections requested by users, is also provided in each carrel. Pianos are located in several areas. Jr. Geology Library emphasizes stratigraphy and sedimentology, paleontology, mineralogy, geochemistry and geophysics, economic geology, planetary geology, and marine geology. A comprehensive collection is maintained of basic and specialized journals and monographs in the earth sciences, including all U.S. Geological Survey publications and many publications of state geological surveys, plus those of many foreign countries.
Regional emphasis is on the North American continent, particularly the Southwest, Texas, and Mexico.
The Tobin International Map Collection houses more than 40,000 geological maps, and a duplicate set of Texas topographic maps. The Library and Information Science Collections contain books, journals, and media in areas of library science, publishing, children's and young adults' literature, information science, archives and records management, and preservation and conservation. In addition, the library maintains a more selective collection of materials in medicine. For botany and zoology, the geographical emphasis is on the Western Hemisphere and on tropical and arid areas. The primary emphasis of the collection is marine relative to botany, chemistry, geochemistry, geology, mariculture, oceanography, and zoology.