[4] The record of these first 200 selections is still housed in the University Archive and includes a set of the works of Edgar Allan Poe; fourteen volumes of the works of Washington Irving; and various works by Walter Scott, Jean Froissart, Henry Fielding, Charles Lamb, George Eliot, Edward Gibbon, T. B. Macaulay, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Victor Hugo, John Richard Green, Henry Hallam, Tobias Smollett, Rudyard Kipling, and John Stuart Mill.

[3] In 1947, during the tenure of President Robert Newton (1941–50),[5] the university received approval from the provincial government to begin construction of a library building.

Herbert T. Coutts Library provides services and resources for the faculties of Education and Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation.

[16] The library's Canadian government documents collection includes parliamentary and legislative materials and administrative decisions from both the federal and provincial level.

[19] The DSC is an academic centre located on the second floor of Cameron Library on the university's North Campus, which opened in September 2019.

feet centre is a hub for digital scholarship on campus and contains a virtual reality lab, a sound booth, 3D printing and scanning, gaming-quality computers, an Ideum touch table, a large-scale, multi-touch visualization wall, and collaboration work spaces.

[24] RCRF is located near the Saville Community Sports Centre and University of Alberta Farm on South Campus.

The collection features materials on Christian theology, Catholic studies, ethics, the Bible, and philosophy.

[30] The Library has a partnership with the Internet Archive, for the digitization and open access provision of material from across the university, including 22,000 master's and PhD theses,[31] highlights from the Bruce Peel Special Collections, and historic postcard and playbill collections.