These are books that may be loaned from one to two weeks varied per college (renewable twice) by students, admin, REPS, and faculty. These include multiple editions of textbooks as well as academic books which cater to detailed discussions of various and specific subjects/topics per unit college.

Set apart from the circulation collection, reserve books are often prescribed by faculties or separated due to multiple demands with limited copies and are available for room use or overnight loan only to allow more students to use them. These books are kept on closed shelves; just fill out a request form to get the book you need.

UP Manila library also caters to adequate reference materials used for room use only to provide fast and effective service through providing a vast reference collection. These collections consist of but are not limited to Dictionaries, Almanacs, Encyclopedia as well as UP publications.

These are a collection that may be loaned for one week (renewable twice) by students, admin, REPS, and faculty which has topics pertaining specifically to the Philippines, written and published in the Philippines, or written by a Filipino author.

UP Manila also takes into heart its role in collecting the intellectual output in the form of undergraduate and graduate theses and dissertations collection which is all stored, made searchable, and readily accessible to researchers. Over the years it has collected research and various works of students in both print and digital formats.

At the UP College of Nursing, academic manuscripts include Community Diagnosis reports, theses, dissertations, and other nursing-related research works, which are acquired primarily through donations