The Access Services Department provides circulation, course reserve, stack maintenance, and storage services for the Humanities & Social Sciences Collections, Auxiliary Library Facility, and the Limited Access Depository.

These units serve primarily students and faculty from the colleges of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Business, Health & Human Performance, and Journalism & Communications.

The Department also handles copyright clearance for all Libraries' electronic course reserves, except those in the Legal Information Center and the Health Sciences Center Library. The Interlibrary Loan Office serves all University faculty, staff, and students except those in the Health Sciences and Law.