This collection also contains material of a documentary nature that has been captured in this medium. The titles in this research library are acquired as resources and donations permit. As the acquisitions budget is small and reserved for reference works, there is a heavy reliance on donations. This rapidly expanding, heavily used portion of the Library consists primarily of non-Canadian titles. This section contains reference books and bibliographies.
Monographs consist primarily of works of non-fiction and pamphlets.
Because they cannot stand alone on the shelves, they are stored apart from the books. While the focus is clearly Canadian, the Archives collects selected foreign material that is deemed important. Where possible, existing non-Canadian newspaper format material will be replaced by microform. Titles we do not possess and pre-1960 material are especially sought after. Canadian daily newspapers, Canadian student newspapers, magazines and periodicals.