The library currently subscribes to more than 1,200 scholarly journals and newspapers, and is a repository for many U.S. Government and Maryland State documents. Official publication of some United Nations special agencies are also in the collection. A professional staff of librarians offers user education and orientation tours of the library. The Special Library Collections include the curriculum library of textbooks and courses of study, the Maryland Collection, and books about Black-Americans. Libraries and laboratories, serving virtually every academic discipline, are within easy commuting distance.
Opportunities abound for the exchange of ideas, information, and scholarship.
Many of the libraries and laboratories are open to qualified UMES graduate students others by special arrangement. Two of the CES research facilities are located on the Chesapeake Bay, one of which is an hour away from UMES in Cambridge. UMES graduate students may use CES faculty on their research committees, and access CES facilities and equipment. The UMES Agriculture Research Program is a part of the Agricultural Experiment Station. The University System of Maryland jointly participates in the Chesapeake Research Consortium, Inc., a wide-scale environmental research program, with Johns Hopkins University, Virginia Institute of Marine science and the Smithsonian Institute.