The collection serves managment education programs on the UMass campus, as well as the business information needs of companies, organizations, and individuals throughout the Commonwealth. The Library is open to the public seven days a week. Full borrowing privileges are extended to all Massachusetts residents. The Library purchases over 1000 business books annually, and subscribes to a comprehensive collection of academic and trade periodicals. The 6 th floor Government Documents Department collects business publications from the US federal government and the Massachusetts state government.
All collections are easy to search using a variety of computer databases.
Classroom instruction and individual research consultations are also available. The Library is a depository for federal government documents and publications, and has about 80 percent of the available material. Located in the Du Bois Library, this collection houses a wide variety of federal publications on paper, microfiche, and compact disk. Examples of materials in the collection are the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, informational publications, research and special reports, Congressional committee hearings and reports, official statistics, and decennial census data on population, housing, and economics. In addition, Government Documents has official Massachusetts publications, local documents, and copies of the official records and public documents of the United Nations.