Accessible to all students, faculty, and members of the surrounding community, the building is designed with an open atmosphere, yet still provides numerous individual study carrels and several group study rooms.
Individual videocassette viewing stations and a small group viewing room are also available.
Many of the 66,000 books form a unique core of technical and services oriented material. Audiovisual titles, mostly instructional material, number more than 1,300. The serials collection includes over 940 magazine and newspaper titles. All the major North Dakota newspapers and many of the smaller ones are available in the reading area, as well as current issues of magazines. The microfilm and microfiche collection includes 85 periodical titles.