The Library will purchase material at the Instructional Level (2) and Research Level (3), for the library's collection in support of the department's Degrees and programs. Specific selection criteria concentrate on, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Applied Linguistics and Language Learning, historical linguistics, theoretical linguistics
- American Sign Language
- Arabic (language, literature, and film)
- Chinese (language, literature, and film)
- French and Francophone (language, literature, and film)
- German (language, literature, and film)
- Italian (language and literature)
- Japanese (language, literature, and film)
- Spanish, Iberian, and Latin American (language, literature, and film)