The library contains over 295,000 volumes and microform equivalents. All basic legal research tools are present. Practice materials are not, as a rule, actively acquired, although many are present in the collection. The collection is extensive or complete in codes, digests, reporters, encyclopedias, citators, and journals. Many areas of legal research are well developed in the monograph collection.
Subject specialties exist in the areas of tax, public land, environmental and energy law.
Reliance on other libraries' collections may be necessary in less frequently studied subjects, and purchases in some areas are made in cooperation with or with reference to the collections of other nearby libraries. Purchase request forms are available at the circulation and reference desks. Of special interest are sets of administrative rulings, federal regulations, and congressional reports, hearings, bills and debates. There are also publications of general interest from most federal agencies. Federal documents, along with indexes and finding aids, are located in the compact shelving on the northwest side of the first floor.