[2] UCT Libraries are specialists in subject areas including African Studies, Commerce, Centre for Higher Education Development, Engineering and the Built Environment, Government Publications, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law and Science.

[4] The establishment of the college library was made possible through donations from residents of Cape Town and prominent figures in the society of the time.

Logeman, a multilingual philologist at the then South African College (SAC) was the founder of what became the University Library.

[8] The Manuscripts and Archives Department collects primary source material of historical value for use by the academic community and other researchers.

It was housed in the Jagger Reading Room of UCT Libraries which was destroyed by a wildfire on Sunday 18 April 2021.