Arcadia Fine Arts Library
Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building, third floor
128 North Broad Street
215-972-2030
www.library.pafa.edu
The spacious PAFA Library serves students, staff, faculty, and alumni, and provides broad-based coverage of the history, theory, criticism, and making of fine art, with special emphasis on the work of individual artists in the areas of drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. The Library acts as a depository of graduate theses, the final academic project required for graduation from the MFA program.
The Academy’s collection contains:
- 16,000 books
- 55 current periodical subscriptions
- over 20,000 slides
- a growing selection of video resources
- the ARTstor Charter Collection of approximately 300,000 images
- an online version of H. W. Wilson's Art Index, which provides indexing, abstracting, and full text coverage of over 378 peer selected journals
- extensive Artist Files, which include newspaper clippings, gallery announcements, resumes, and pictures of more than 7,000 artists whose works are difficult to document in books
- Faculty Files, which are Artist Files for the Academy’s current faculty members.