The School of Art & Art History is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and has two nationally ranked programs; the Master of Arts in Art History and a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art. The School also offers the BA in Art History, BA in Studio Art and BFA in Studio Art. Students and faculty have the unique opportunity to participate in a center of art study with the Institute for Research in Art which includes Graphicstudio and the Contemporary Art Museum, and which offers a Graduate Museum Studies Certificate. These programs, and faculty, continue to garner national and international acclaim with awards, grants, exhibits, and art commissions. The faculty are prolific in their scholarship and creative work and they are recognized world-wide. The prestigious awards and grants are too numerous to mention; however, a few examples include fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the Getty Research Institute, Harvard University Library Fellowships, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The interdisciplinary nature of Art & Art History is evident in the types of materials requested by the faculty, the classes taught, and the expertise of departmental scholars. Supporting the students and faculty in the School of Art & Art History with a collection that sustains their needs is essential and fundamentally a critical step in becoming a research library. Use of the collection, collection comparisons to peers and aspirants, and the number of quality monographs being published all point to the necessity to grow this part of the collection. Art and Art History materials get considerable use by faculty and students studying many subjects across the university – Africana Studies; American Studies; Anthropology; Architecture; Asian Studies; Classics; Humanities & Cultural Studies; International Studies; Literary Studies; Medieval History; Religious Studies; Theatre & Dance; and World Languages. Circulation statistics and difficulty in keeping the books on the shelves organized substantiate that Art & Art History materials are the fourth most used area of the collection.