Reserve materials circulate within the library for a two-hour period and cannot be taken out of the library for any reason . In addition there are periodical indexes, corporate annual reports, and various accounting, tax, finance and international business services are available. Handouts are available which list key reference sources for company, industry and country research. In addition, Thomas Cooper Library houses many business and economics monographs. The Business Library also has an uncataloged textbook collection where books are shelved within broad subject categories by author's name.
All books circulate for a four-week period.
A core collection of approximately 300 business and economic periodicals is available in the Business Library. Current issues are displayed alphabetically by title. The library holds the bound back files for 10-25 years depending on the periodical. Older back files are located in Thomas Cooper Library. The Business Library also maintains a microfilm collection of over 500 periodical titles consisting primarily of trade and regional business journals for the period 1982 to 1998.