The Collection is housed in a large space with study carrels, light tables, circulation desk as well as space for staff.
Technical processing is done in adjacent rooms which include a well-equipped photo lab.
The location, one floor below the Fine Arts Library, provides convenient access to an extensive reference collection available to support the research needs of the collection staff. Collection circulation averages 80,000 slides per year. In addition to faculty and students of the Art and Art History Department, about fifty faculty members from approximately twenty other departments on campus make use of the collection each year. In addition to slide circulation, the management of A-V equipment and services to lecture halls and seminar rooms accounts for a great amount of circulation activity.