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The Sackler Library contains extensive art history holdings, shelved on the 2nd and 3rd floors and arranged in three distinct areas:

• the Western Art Library (monographs, catalogues and periodicals on the fine and decorative arts);
• the History of Art Library (theory, criticism, historiography);
• the Eastern Art Library (books and periodicals on the art and architecture of the Orient including a large section on Islamic art).

These collections are on open shelves for reference only. Two related closed-access collections are the Wind collection (iconography and iconology) and the Haskell collection (French Salon studies).