Lamont Library supports the undergraduate curriculum in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to supporting course requirements and undergraduate research needs, the collection reflects a wide variety of student interests in literature, current political affairs, the arts, and the environment. Lamont's holdings tally over 200,000 volumes, including books, serials, periodicals, newspapers, and reference titles. The Henry Weston Farnsworth Room, devoted to non-curricular leisure reading, houses approximately 4,000 eclectic titles.