Mission: The Indiana University Southeast Library empowers and serves its communities by facilitating lifelong learning through physical and digital collections, services, and programs, and is an active partner in the teaching, learning, and research missions of the campus.

As part of Indiana University, the Library provides access to millions of books, journals, films, government documents, and other sources, in physical and online formats, through local collections and interlibrary loan. The Library also houses several special collections, including the Curriculum Materials Center (a collection of children and young adult literature and resources for education majors and community members); the Center for Cultural Resources; the William L. Simon Sheet Music Collection; the IU Southeast Oral History Project; the institutional archive of IU Southeast; and the archives of Ars Femina. A mini-branch of the Floyd County Library within the Library provides students, staff, faculty, and the community access to bestsellers and leisure reading. Additionally, the Library is a selective depository of U.S. Government Publications.

Research help is available whenever the library is open. You can visit us at the Service Desk, which is staffed by student peer research assistants, call us, or ask questions online through chat and email. Faculty librarians are on call to answer in-depth research questions, either in person or online. Students, faculty, and staff can also schedule research consultations with a librarian through Book-a-Librarian.

The Library is embedded within the First-Year Seminar curriculum and participates in the general education curriculum through our information literacy instruction program, with customized and interactive instruction sessions taught by faculty librarians. In addition, online Canvas modules and research guides are available anytime to provide help with using the Library’s resources.

The IU Southeast Library building offers a variety of individual and collaborative workspaces, including a quiet floor, reservable group study rooms, and comfortable couches and chairs. There are computer workstations on every floor, with scanning and printing equipment on the main floor, including a poster (plotter) printer. The Library is also home to the Writing Center and the Institute of Learning and Teaching Excellence (ILTE) for faculty.

Indiana University Southeast participates in the Kentuckiana Metroversity cooperative agreement which enables IU Southeast students access to the library collections of colleges and universities in the Louisville metropolitan area.