Periodicals are located on the 2nd floor of the Library. The Reference collection is located on the 2nd floor of the Library. The Reserve collection, located on the 1st floor of the Library, is a closed stack collection of material required for Barnard courses and other undergraduate courses taught by Barnard faculty. Material removed from Reserve is evaluated and added to the circulating collection as appropriate. They are not actively collected.
Storage is located in the basement.
In 1995 the library began to clean out this area and move into it back runs of periodicals, reference serials, and an overflow of Archive material. The Overbury collection, a gift from Bertha Overbury, of 3300 special and first editions as well as manuscript materials by and about American women authors. The Gabriela Mistral Collection, which consists of the personal library of Nobel Prize-winning poet. A small collection of rare books. No additions are currently being made to any of these collections.