Location
Watt Hall
850 Bloom Walk, B-4
University Park Campus
Los Angeles CA 90089-0294
Phone: (213) 740 1956
Email:
afa@usc.edu
Campus map code: WAH
Overview
The Architecture & Fine Arts Library (AFA) houses more than 75,000 volumes and more than 600 videos and DVDs dedicated to the studies of art history, fine arts, and architecture, as well as a notable collection of rare titles and artists' books. The library is part of the USC Libraries system, and it is housed in a modernist setting designed by Graeme Morland, a faculty member at the School of Architecture, on the ground floor of Watt Hall. The library has flat-bed scanners for use by USC students and faculty and offers a copy stand and a camera to enable users to photograph from the library's collections. The library also has architectural and public-art archival collections.
The AFA Library abides by the USC Libraries policies on access and borrowing privileges.
Academic Year Hours (all USC Library hours are listed in the "Hours" section to the right :
Monday-Thursday 9am-10pm
Fridays-Saturdays 9am-5pm
Sundays 12pm-8pm
Cage/Rare Books Room hours are Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
(holiday and school break hours are listed in the "Hours" section to the right)
Summer Hours:
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.
Standish K. Penton Slide Collection
The Standish K. Penton Family Slide Library is an instruction resource primarily for USC faculty teaching in the Department of Art History, the School of Architecture and the School of Fine Arts. The slide library collection is composed of approximately 250,000 35 mm slides of architecture, the fine arts and material culture as well as 8,000 lantern slides from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The slide library is also involved in an ongoing project to create a database of digital images for the purpose of instruction on the USC campus.
The slide library is housed on the mezzanine of the Architecture & Fine Arts Library (WAH, B4, M16). Hours of operation are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday.