The Library has 2 full-time professional Africana librarians, both of them holding doctorates in African Studies, who provide reference assistance to a wide range of faculty and students at MSU and elsewhere.

Library materials come from all African countries (less so for North Africa) are collected at a high level and from all historical periods.

It reflects his commitment to unions and labor, non-violence, truth, respect and an appreciation of diversity, education and his cultura.

Chavez was a frequent visitor to the Lansing area, and as such, the collection also reflects the Midwest presence of migrant farmworkers.

In addition to offering online collections, representing many books and journals digitized by DMC, a set of over 10,000 multimedia items are held and are available for check out.

DMC also assists in obtaining permissions from copyright holders for MSU faculty who need to use protected materials in courses and academic projects.

It is particularly strong in the areas of agriculture, demography and population, education, environmental sciences, international relations, labor, and law.

The collection is arranged by Superintendent of Documents call number which organizes publications by issuing agency rather than by subject.

[10] There are over 7,000 serial titles, many of which are complete from early dates, including Foreign Relations of the United States from 1861, Geological Survey Professional Papers from 1896, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Papers from 1902, and the Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1913.

[10] In 1967, the library became a selective depository of Canadian federal documents to support the Canadian-American Studies Program.

The library selects a general range of publications from science to foreign policy and labor relations.

[10] In 2007 the Library ended its status as a permanent Depository for official publications of the State of Michigan.

The archive consists of CDs that have been commercially available in the United States since the early 1990s and includes some releases imported from Europe.

[14] In the 1960s, the Michigan State University (MSU) Library began to collect printed turfgrass materials.

Using the Noer Collection as a foundation, TGIF was designed to systematically inventory published turf research and make the bibliographic information available via a computerized database.

With over 250,000 searchable items using over 300,000 keywords, these resources cover the full scope of the turfgrass industry.

Political and cultural leaders and minor players in the human drama are captured and catalogued to serve the research needs of a local, national and international user base.

Clients include students and faculty of Michigan State University, other scholars and researchers, broadcasting networks, news agencies and film, video, and Web production companies.

[20][21] Its coverage of comic strips was significantly enhanced with the donation in 2007 of the King Features proof sheet collection consisting of roughly one million sheets containing about two million individual strips (a duplicate set was donated to Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum).

[23] All contents of the collection are listed in the MSU Libraries' online catalog as well as in the international OCLC computer network.

Microfiche copies of several hundred extremely rare superhero comic books from the early 1940s are also available in the Special Collections reading room.

[24] The Labor and Industrial Relations (LIR), collection is located in the Business Library and is open to the public.

It consists of a non-circulating LIR Reference Collection on site, with access to the rest of the University Libraries’ system.

The collection supported the research interests of KBS faculty, staff, students and visiting scientists in aquatic and terrestrial ecology, evolution, behavior and agro-ecology.

KBS is Michigan State University's largest off-campus education complex and one of North America's premier inland field stations.