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
Academic Year Hours:
Monday-Thursday 9am-10pm; Fridays 9am-5pm; Saturdays Closed; Sundays 12pm-6pm
Cage/Rare Books Room hours are Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.
Summer Hours:
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Holiday and school break hours are listed in the "Hours" tab to the right
Overview and General Lending Policies
The Architecture & Fine Arts Library (AFA) is located in a modernist setting designed by Graeme Morland, a faculty member at the School of Architecture, on the ground floor of Watt Hall. It houses more than 75,000 volumes of books and journals dedicated to the studies of art history, fine arts, and architecture, as well as a notable collection of rare titles and artists' books. In addition, the AFA Library has a growing collection of videos and dvds in the arts and design fields. The AFA Library's collection can be searched through the USC Libraries catalog, HOMER. The AFA library has flat-bed scanners for use by USC students and faculty and offers a copy stand. The library also has several architectural and public-art archival collections. It is part of the USC Libraries system, and adheres to the USC Libraries policies on access and borrowing privileges.
- Books from the regular stacks generally circulate for 2 weeks (USC undergraduates, alumni and courtesy borrowers with USC Libraries card) and semester (USC faculty and graduate students).
- DVDs can be checked out for 3 days.
- Materials from the circulation desk (permanent reserves, course reserves) are for use with a valid USC Libraries card only, and must remain in the library.
- Journals, books from oversized, high-shelves and reference stacks, and cage materials remain in the library; cage materials must be consulted in the rare books reading room.
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.