The Reading Room is also used for accessing Special Collections material under supervision for groups of students, by special arrangement. The reading room also has 10 carrels, which are charged to faculty and graduate students who work on South Asia, with permission of the South Asia Librarian. Similarly, classes can be scheduled with permission. The South Asia Bibliographer is a member of the Committee on South Asia Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD), and the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP). The University of Pennsylvania Libraries are in several regional and national consortia, including Borrow Direct and E-Z Borrow. The South Asia Center at Penn, and the Center for Advanced Study of India have a large number of affiliated fellows, academics from the region and around the globe, who use the South Asia collection for their research.