Joyce Ball assumed Library Director in 1980, followed by Charles Martell as Dean and University Librarian in 1987.

[7][8] In 2008, Webb left his post, and Tabzeera Dosu (formerly at the University of Virginia library) became the new Dean and Director.

[1] In 1994, Mary Tsukamoto, a schoolteacher from Elk Grove, California donated her work pertaining to the World War II internment of Japanese-born individuals and Americans of Japanese descent, later donations came from the Florin Japanese American Citizens League and Sacramento VFW Nisei Post 8985, collectively forming what is today the Japanese American Archival Collection.

[1] The library is one of only three in the nation to have a copy of a rare multi-lingual encyclopedia of botanical and natural specimens (published in 1852).

[11] The library also houses the Magnus Hirschfeld Collection of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transsexual History.

[12] The Center opened in 2003 and was named after the late Sacramento Mayor and Sac State professor Joe Serna, Jr. and the late university administrator and Ethnic Studies professor Isabella Hernandez Serna.

The Center's mission is to encourage policy and political knowledge, activism and engagement, student access and excellence, and community service.

[13] The Tea Room on the ground floor of the library was an anonymous donor gift to the university, by someone wishing to honor their late mother who practiced and taught the art of chadō.

Members of San Francisco's Uransenke Foundation perform the traditional tea ceremony on campus several times a year.

Founded in 2002, the gallery displays work by nationally and internationally acclaimed artists, including alumni and faculty.