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Series contains documents pertaining to administration and daily running of the Library. Included are photocopy and film licensing agreements; statistical surveys; agreements with Dalhousie; job descriptions of each Library staff position, payroll documentation from 1989-2005, complaint/suggestion forms from 1991-2000. The series also includes personnel files for staff members, containing job offers, salary details, and some correspondence for the staff and student assistants who worked in the library between the years of 1980 and 2004. Series includes schedules and staffing studies.

Series contains early registers of books borrowed from the Library; circulation reports from the head of circulation to the Librarian, detailing circulation statistics such as patron usage, fees incurred, and loans. There are files pertaining to the implementation of the Novanet system, including correspondence between King's and other Nova Scotia libraries.

The series consists of reports and minutes of committees formed for oversight of the Library, as well as those to which the Librarian has belonged. Reports relating to committees that do not pertain directly to the operation of the Library or of which the Librarian is not an ex officio member are in the personnel file associated with the Library employee who belonged to that committee. The series spans two centuries through which committees have had various roles relating to the Library.

Series includes minutes and reports of the Administrative Council, Administrative Management Committee, Aesthetics Committee, Budget Committee, Library Building Committee, Library Committee, and Appointments Committee. These committees either directly relate to the administration of the Library or the Librarian has been an ex officio member of them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.