Besides purchases, the LIS collections have grown through donations and various grants, allowing development of target collections. The KU LIS has an extensive reference collection including monolingual and bilingual dictionaries and encyclopedias. The general library collection consists of materials in Azeri, English, Russian, Turkish, French, German, and other modern European and Oriental languages. To facilitate physical access to information, a policy of self-service has been chosen, with open access to the stacks located within the reading hall areas. The holdings are classified and arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
Librarians assist users in finding relevant information.
Available books can be borrowed for a fixed period as well as used in the quiet study spaces offered in the reading rooms. Modern computer workstations connected to the KU local computer network as well as to the Internet are available to users. KU LIS affiliates with other academic and public libraries of Baku. Relationships with various international academic libraries are also being developed.