Visiting scientists to the AMGRF can take advantage of a library that contains over 35 Polar related journals, numerous theses and dissertations, cruise data books, over 1,000 books on Antarctic and marine geology, an extensive Antarctic reprint collection, 1,2000 bottom photographs of Southern Ocean sites, several thousand core X-Radiographs, and an extensive Antarctic map collection.

Facility services include:

1. curation of the existing collections at the facility
2. onsite ship and land based curatorial services
3. receipt and processing of new cores
4. core description and publication of core descriptions
5. distribution of samples from the collection to authorized scientists
6. hosting of scientific meetings and workshops
7. tours, lectures, and student education and training in Antarctic geoscience
8. maintenance of:
   1. a core and sample database
   2. an Antarctic geology and marine geology reference library and a searchable “End Note” computer database of the entire collection
   3. a satellite IODP/MRC for nannofossils and diatoms