[1] The library is located approximately five kilometres east of the main University of Alberta campus.

However, it is open to the public; and borrowing options exist for users who do not carry a university ONEcard.

Furthermore, a large collection of documents on microform, including a number of historical Western-Canadian francophone newspapers and the complete EDUQ microfiche collection (all documents published in the field of education in the Canadian province of Quebec from 1981 to 1995) are available.

This collection includes rare documents in the areas of francophone history in Western Canada and works by Western-Canadian francophone authors (including but not limited to donated theses, programs of study formerly approved for classroom use by Alberta Education and other works deemed to have an historical value that cannot circulate because they are either fragile or irreplaceable).

This collection was created in 1978 to meet the needs of students in the Education program at Campus Saint-Jean.