Selected materials located in the reference section include:

• Academic American Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Americana
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Collier's
• World Book
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• Encyclopedia of Social History
• Taylor's Encyclopedia of Government Officials
• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Encyclopedia of Educational Research
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
• Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
• Who's Who in America (living Americans)
• Current Biography (living international figures)
• Contemporary Authors (both living and deceased writers (since 1900))
• Dictionary of National Biography (deceased Britons)
• Dictionary of American Biography (deceased Americans)
• Random House Dictionary of the English Language (general)
• American Heritage Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary (general)
• Oxford English Dictionary (historical and documented information)
• Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology
• Familiar Quotations - John Bartlett (famous quotations)
• The Home Book of Quotations (famous quotations)
• What They Said (yearbook of world opinion)
• International Directory of Company Histories
• Texas Business Directory
• Magil Critical Surveys: Poetry, Dramas, Long Fiction, Short Fiction, & Cinema
• Contemporary Literary Criticism (excerpts from criticism of the works of today's writers)
• Twentieth Century American Literature (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism)
• Oxford Classical Dictionary (guide to ancient Greek and Roman civilization)
• Poetry Criticism (excerpts from criticism of the works of significant poets)
• Short Story Criticism (excerpts from criticisms of short fiction writers)
• World Almanac
• City Crime Rankings
• County and City Extra
• Crime State Rankings
• Statistical Abstract of the United States