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Fonds contains records related to the founding and ongoing operations of the University Library, including correspondence; memoranda; meeting minutes, agendas; policies, regulations; financial records, reports; and proposals for a new Library building. Consists of 13 series: library policies, librarians' report, financial records, administrative records, publications, circulation records, committee records, correspondence, special collections reports, displays, reference statistics, library premises, and publications.

Series consists of records relating to the Library's physical premises and planning and construction of the present Library & Archives building that opened in 1991. Series contains building proposals and plans, publicity relating to the new Library, correspondence and reports relating to construction of the Library and Archives building. It includes articles about the Library, manuals and information about furnishings and equipment, and reports detailing the planning, logistics and legal aspects of the Library move. Architectural drawings of the Library are in the University of King's College architectural records collection, UKC.ARCH.

Series consists of documents relating to the Librarys Special Collections, including correspondence, catalogue cards, book lists and requests for non-circulating materials. Series spans the entire history of the College, with correspondence relating to donations made during the early years of the Library.

For some years, Library staff maintained a presence at a reference desk in the Library Reading Room. The statistics, maintained by Library staff who worked on the reference desk, were handwritten records of daily interactions, circulation, special collections, and bibliographic information. Series consists of statistics maintained during periods when the Library had designated reference assistance available.

Series consists of accessions lists, donations, catalogues, serials, and weeding lists from 1859-2007. Details of all books acquired by the Library, including accessions and donations lists, are included in the series, as well as lists of books withdrawn from the Library's collections from 1983-2002. Most of the accessions lists are in bound volumes shelved separately. Series includes accession book from the Smith Memorial Library, a former recreational reading collection maintained for students living in campus residences.

Accessions lists are maintained to record additions to the Library's collections. A newly received book is given a unique accession number and added to the accessions list. Books that are withdrawn are noted on weeding lists. Accessions lists have been maintained for most of the Library's history in Halifax. Catalogues and lists of books exist from the Library in Windsor.

Series consists of all publications issued by the Library from 1802 to 2006. The Library issued publications as part of its fund-raising initiatives and the campaign for the new Library building. Some of the brochures are specific to particular sections of the Library, such as the Archives and Special Collections. The Library has also published general information for Library users and visitors. Two 19th-century documents about the history of the library were sent to prospective benefactors in England. Most of the records in the series are brochures for publicity and fund raising. The publications span the history of the library and include histories published by the College in 1802 and 1874.

The role of Librarian is set out in the University's internal statutes, which are found in the Board of Governors' fonds, UKC.BOG.1.2. This series contains Library policies; correspondence with other institutions about rationalization of collections; draft and final collections policies; information relating to the cooperative acquisition policy with Dalhousie Libraries.

Series consists of policies collected from all aspects of the Library, including collections, accessions, circulation, special collections, and faculties.

The Librarian writes an annual report to the President regarding Library activities and operations during the preceding year. The reports contain information about accessions, budgets, cataloguing, circulation, staffing and Archives, and discussion of future directions for the Library. The biographies folder contains photocopies of obituaries and notices of appointment to the Library staff. The Librarians' portion of the series (sub-series 2.5-2.9) contains correspondence between the Librarians and various faculty members, King's administrators, external librarians, architects, and personal records.

Series contains the annual reports and personal records of the Librarians of the University of King's College. There are files from past librarians including Rev. Benjamin Gerrish Grey (1803-1804), Mary Lane (1971-1981), and Dr. Burns Martin (1936-1953). The majority of the files are documents and correspondence by or to Dr. Wayne Hankey (1982-1991) and Drake Petersen (1991-2011).

Biographies of some of the Librarians, in the form of news clippings and photocopies, are also included.

The Librarians' annual reports span 1867 to 2010, with gaps.

Series consists of financial records related to the operation of the Library. It includes information on the Library account, endowments from the Library, grant programs, and the Library's budgets. It dates from the first years of the Library to the modern day. Handwritten receipts recorded the purchase of the first books for the Library in London at the time the University was founded. The series also describes Library endowment funds.

Series includes materials related to displays, as well as pamphlets and brochures published by the Library for past exhibitions. The series ranges from Library tours conducted in 1957 to academic presentations in 2009.