The Library aims to collect resources to support teaching and research in the following subject areas
- Business and politics
- Civil society
- Decentralization in government
- Deliberative democracy
- Democracy
- Democratization
- Employment
- Governance
- Identity politics
- Indigenous studies
- International trade
- Local government
- New democracies
- Organizational change
- Political planning
- Political science
- Political theory
- Politics
- Public administration
- Public sector reform
- Representative government and representation
- Social policy
- Sociology and feminism
The Library collections also aim to support staff engaged in research in the neXus Research Centre. and the Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis (IGPA)
