Occasional Papers file contains monographs published by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) offering guidance to art librarians and visual resources curators on practical and scholarly issues, including the introduction of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), art slide collection standards, art library automation, library grant development, art library space planning, student design literacy, archival considerations for individual collections, and fair use of images under copyright.

Print holdings include AACR2 Goes Public (1982), Standards for Art Libraries and Fine Arts Slide Collections (1983), Current Issues in Fine Arts Collection Development (1984), Reference Tool for Fine Arts Visual Resources Collections (1984), Historical Bibliography of Art Museum Serials From The United States and Canada (1987), Authority Control Symposium, edited by Karen Muller, 1987), Procedural Guide to Automating An Art Library, (1987), Grant Development for Large and Small Libraries (1990), Space Planning for the Art Library (1991), Staffing Standards for Art Libraries and Visual Resource Collections (1996), Library Instruction for Students in Design Disciplines:  Scenarios, Exercises, and Techniques (2002), The Library and the Accreditation Process in Design Disciplines:  Best Practices (2003), and Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship (2007).  On-line PDF holdings include Information Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines (2007), Artists' Studio Archives:  Managing Personal Collections and Creative Legacies (2016), and Fair Use in the Visual Arts:  Lesson Plans for Librarians (2018).