Resources
The Ohio State University Libraries and associate institutions throughout the city, state, and region provide extensive research facilities. The Fine Arts Library, with approximately 100,000 volumes covering all areas of the visual arts, is part of a University Library system that contains nearly 5,000,000 volumes. The Ohio State University Library system is ranked as one of the largest research libraries in the country. In addition, the OSU Libraries participate in OhioLINK, a computer network that provides easy access to information and rapid delivery of library materials from more than 75 library locations in the state. The Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, together with the Hilandar Research Library, contains 3,500 Slavic manuscripts, and is the largest collection of medieval manuscripts on microform in the Western Hemisphere. Of special interest are more than 1,000 manuscripts from monasteries on Mount Athos, Greece. The Department's Visual Resources Library contains approximately 375,000 slides and provides digital images for on-line course review. The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Related Art contains nearly 300,000 original color slides, as well as photographs of art and architecture throughout Asia.
The Wexner Center for the Arts, designed by Eisenman/Trott, Architects, offers the public and University community a rich and varied program of performance and exhibitions of contemporary art and houses the University's permanent art collection. Active exhibition programs are provided by the Columbus Museum of Art with its Ferdinand Howald Collection of American paintings and Howard D. and Babette L. Sirak Collection of modern art; the Ohio Historical Society with its collection of Indian artifacts, modern conservation facilities, and archives; and the Pontifical College Josephinum, with its library of church history and related matters. The rich holdings of the Cincinnati Museum of Art, Taft Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Dayton Art Institute, Butler Institute of American Art at Youngstown, and Toledo Museum of Art are all within a few hours travel. The libraries in Cincinnati and Cleveland are equally accessible.