The university's Alden Library contains more than 1.7 million titles, including more than 20,000 scripts. It also houses the Fine Arts Library, with its own full-time librarian, the incomparable Anne Braxton. The Fine Arts Library is a unique collection of 40,000 titles that provides students in the College of Fine Arts with ready access to scholarly and visual materials including the history of furniture, costume, architecture, and interior design. This material is especially useful for designers, directors, actors, and dramaturgs. The extensive periodicals collection ranges from design to scholarship, with more than 250 periodicals in the arts.
Students also have access to a large collection of videotapes.
Finally, the Music Library, housed in the School of Music, has an extensive collection of recordings and literature, essential to research and production efforts.