The Mina Rees Library is located on three levels of the New Campus. The Art Slide Collection of over 222,000 art slides is located near the Art History Classroom on the floor above the Library. The Graduate Center's collection supports the doctoral programs in the humanities, social science, and mathematics.
Total holdings are over six million volumes.
CUNY doctoral students have full use and borrowing privileges at all CUNY libraries, except the Law School library. In addition to its print collections, the Mina Rees Library provides access to digital collections and online information resources. Its digital collections currently include over 28 items, ranging from indices and abstracts to full texts of journals. The Library's Web page points to over 2,000 Web sites of interest to academics. The Library conducts frequent beginning and advanced classes on database searching and on using the World Wide Web.