In addition to holding over 600,000 books, the Library subscribes to almost 50 full-text databases, and provides online access to over 225,000 unique online books and 80,000 online journals, as well as a selection of print periodicals and newspapers. The Library also houses several special collections, including, a map collection and a K-12 Curriculum Materials Center, as well as the IUS Archives, the archives of the IUS Oral History Project, and those of Ars Femina and the William L. Simon Sheet Music Collection. Additionally, the Library is a selective depository of U.S. Government Publications.

Reference service is available whenever the library is open, and the library offers a rich array of Web-based, full-text information resources, including thousands of online newspapers and scholarly journals. Information literacy classes at several levels are offered throughout the year.

The Indiana University libraries are linked through IUCAT, a shared, Web-based catalog that furnishes access to more than 7,000,000 volumes in the IU library system and to library collections throughout the region. Access to these resources is also available from offices and computer labs across campus as well as from remote sites via the library’s Web site.

Through interlibrary loan, students, faculty, and staff at Indiana University Southeast have easy access to the research collections on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses and around the nation. In addition, the library collections of colleges and universities in the Louisville metropolitan area are made available through Kentuckiana Metroversity cooperative agreements. The online catalogs of all these libraries have linked access to each other.