Location
Watt Hall
850 Bloom Walk, B-4
University Park Campus
Los Angeles CA 90089-0294
AFA Circulation Desk Phone: (213) 740 1956
AFA Research Help Phone: (213) 740-8759
Email: afa@usc.edu
Campus map code: WAH
Library hours during Academic Year, roughly 3rd week of August to 2nd week in May (Holiday hours vary):
Library hours during Academic Year, roughly 3rd week of August to 2nd week in May (Holiday hours vary):
- Monday-Thursday: 9am-10pm, Friday: 9am-5pm
- Saturday: Closed, Sunday: 12pm-6pm
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Special Collections/Cage Hours:
- Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm
Watt Hall building access hours during the Academic Year:
Monday-Friday 7am-7pm unrestricted access. At all other hours Watt Hall is locked and accessible through USC card swipe.
Library hours during the summer, roughly 3rd week in May to 2nd week in August (Holiday hours vary):
Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm, including Special Collections/Cage
Watt Hall Hours during the Summer: Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm unrestricted access.
For information on hours for all of the USC Libraries, including holiday and school break hours, click on the "Hours" button in the column to the right.
Overview and Collection Use 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 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.
Basic collection use policies are listed below. For a complete set of usage policies go to the AFA Library's Policies page.
Type of Material |
USC Undergraduate students; USC Staff |
USC Graduate students; USC Faculty |
Alumni with valid USC Library card |
Visitors with valid USC Library card [fee borrowers] |
Visitors without a USC Library card |
Books from regular stacks |
Circulate for 4 weeks; Can renew 10 times |
Circulate for Semester; Can renew indefinitely |
Circulate for 4 weeks; Can renew 10 times |
Circulate for 4 weeks; Can renew 10 times |
In-library use |
Books from oversized stacks |
In-library use |
Semester Can renew indefinitely |
In-library use |
In-library use |
In-library use |
Journals |
In-library use |
In-library use |
In-library use |
In-library use |
In-library use |
DVDs |
Circulate for 3 days; Can renew once |
Circulate for 3 days; Can renew once |
Circulate for 3 days; Can renew once |
Circulate for 3 days; Can renew once |
Materials not available |
Circulation Desk materials |
In-library use |
In-library use |
In-library use |
In-library use |
Materials not available |
High Shelves materials |
In-library use |
In-library use |
In-library use |
In-library use |
In-library use M-F 9am-5pm |
Cage, Rare, and Archival materials |
Use in Rare Books reading room, M-F 9-5 |
Use in Rare Books reading room, M-F 9-5 |
Use in Rare Books reading room, M-F 9-5 |
Use in Rare Books reading room, M-F 9-5 |
Use in Rare Books reading room, M-F 9-5 |
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.