The Center for American Studies stores the books in an open stack system.

Books are shelved by subject (Library of Congress Classification Number).

The collection can be consulted in the open stacks or in the Center’s reading room where a large number of reference tools is housed.

The books can also be lent through interlibrary loan.

In the Center’s reading room several screens provide access to the Royal Library’s online catalog, which contains the holdings of the CAS.

In addition, these screens give direct access to other Belgian library catalogs and European national library catalogs, as well as to national union catalogs as the CCB, the VLACC, Antilope, etc.

The Catalogue of Pre-1900 Imprints Relating to America in the Royal Library Brussels, by Margaret Gale Nicholson (3 vol.), contains over 8.000 titles of Americana, most of which are not in the online catalog.

The CAS offers free Internet access.

For the various collections on microfilm, microfiche and ultracard,  a reader-printer scanner is available.

A photocopy machine and several computers are at the disposal of the researchers.