The Paul Evans Library on the Mountain Grove Campus became the third branch of SMSU Libraries in 1996, and the Ozark Labor Union Archives was transferred from the SMSU Economics Department to the SMSU Libraries' new department of Special Collections and Archives. As of 2001, the collections of SMSU's four libraries number over 2.9 million items including volumes, subscriptions to periodicals and newspapers, extensive back files of journals and newspapers, audiovisual materials, and government documents and maps. Additionally, over 45 electronic databases are available for use. In 2000 Meyer Library was named as an official United Nations Depository. Includes general memoranda folder circa prior to 1959 as well as incoming, internal and outgoing folders holding memos from the 1980s and 1990s.
Folders are in alphabetical order, chronologically arranged within.
Subject files including brochures, budget proposals, history, guidelines and information on different departments, clippings, collection development, goals and plans, library organizations and presentations, technology, newsletters and other general information regarding the library. Arranged alphabetically by subject, chronologically within each folder. Minutes of Academic Council, Department Heads, miscellaneous meetings, and news supplements for Board of Regents Meetings. Also contains agendas and notes on miscellaneous other meetings. Arranged alphabetically by meeting title, then chronologically.