Facilities Academic resources on the campus of the University of Illinois are among the finest in the world. The University Library is the third largest academic collection in the nation, housing almost 16 million items in the main library and in the more than forty departmental libraries and units. Only Harvard and Yale have larger collections. The library's computerized cataloging system was the first in the world to serve as the primary access to a large academic library.
Users can access the collections from hundreds of computer terminals placed throughout the campus.
A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The Graphics Lab is an essential resource available to advertising students and is utilized extensively by students enrolled in Advertising 382 and Advertising 390. The Graphics Lab currently houses 25 PCs and two high quality laser printers, all available for use by advertising students during the lab's open hours. A lab monitor is present at all times when the Graphics Lab is open to answer any questions students may have. The Communications Library contains over 15,000 volumes of books, journals, and materials in other formats, on advertising, journalism, radio and television broadcasting, telecommunications, media studies, popular culture, polling and public opinion, and the post office.