The Jerome and Anne Fisher Fine Arts Library

The University of Pennsylvania Library System consists of fourteen campus libraries,one of which is The Jerome and Anne Fisher Fine Arts Library Housed inthe National Historic Landmark Furness Building, recently renamed the Jerome and Anne Fisher Fine Arts Library, this library contains collections covering architecture, city planning, history of art,landscape architecture, fine arts, historic preservation, and urban design. Although the emphasis is on Western culture, material on the arts of Islam, South Asia, and the Far East supplement holdings in the Van Pelt Library and the Museum Library. The collection includes approximately 90,000 volumes, and the Library currently receives about 600 periodical titles.

The Fine Arts Library also offers online searching of the Avery Index for Architectural Periodicals and theConservation Information Network. Recent years of the Art Index are available on compact disc. The Furness Building also houses the Perkins Library, a collection of about 2,000 rare architectural titles, and the Slide Collection, available for classroom presentations.

Other collections in the University of Pennsylvania Library System frequently used by Graduate School of Fine Arts faculty and students are found inthe Van Pelt-Dietrich Library which is Penn's central social sciences and humanities library. Also located in the Van Pelt Library building is the Rosengarten Reserve Room; a 30-station microcomputer facility with study carrels; the Van Pelt Reference Department; the Department of Special Collections, including the Rare Book Collection; the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School, and the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and Eugene Ormandy Listening Center.

The Museum Library of The University Museum supports research, study, and teachingin the fields of anthropology and archaeology, and houses materials inother related disciplines such as folklore, linguistics, and non-European art.