The books at the Center for American Studies are housed according to an open stack system and are organized by subject (according to their Library of Congress Classification Number).

This allows researchers to easily consult the Center’s collection on-site in the Center’s reading room, and/or to borrow books through interlibrary loan.

Several computer terminals are available in the Center’s reading room for the purpose of searching the Royal Library’s online catalog, which contains the entire holdings of the Center.

These terminals also provide direct access to other Belgian and European library catalogs, as well as the national union catalogs of the CCB, the VLACC, Antilope, and others. (Note that Margaret Gale Nicholson’s Catalogue of Pre-1900 Imprints Relating to America, 3 vol., housed in the Royal Library of Brussels, is not available in the online catalog, but may be consulted with the help of library staff.)

The Center offers free on-site internet access and is equipped with a reader-printer scanner for viewing and printing various microfilm, microfiche, and ultracard collections. Photocopy facilities are also available.