The Library's collection includes more than 300,000 items including books, periodical volumes, music scores, music recordings and audiovisual materials, microforms, computer software, and Baptist documents. Currently received periodicals total over 1,100 titles. The microforms, containing approximately 95,000+ volumes of books, periodicals, and dissertations make the Library's collection strong in Early American and Early British materials, including important Baptist history resources. The collection is adequate to serve all of the Seminary's programs of study.

The resources and services of the Library are augmented greatly by the proximity of excellent university libraries and by an increase in both the scope and degree of cooperation with these libraries and others throughout the nation. As a charter member of the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET), the Library is using a shared computer facility by means of an on-line computer terminal. The Library also participates in the North Carolina Information Network.

In addition to funds allocated to the Seminary by the Southern Baptist Convention, the Library benefits from the generosity of many individuals and organizations. Each year, a number of cash gifts are received for the purchase of books. Eighty-four gifts, each of one thousand dollars or more, are providing endowment income for "memorial book shelves." Several gifts of private book collections have added signifigantly to the Library's strength. During the summer of 1995, the Library installed the Dynix Marquis Integral Library Automation System. This tool for bibliographical research enables all users to perform search and retrieve tasks via a personal computer.