Campus libraries support teaching and research at the undergraduate and graduate levels in all fields covered by the Kenan Flagler Business School and the Kenan Institute and serve as a resource for the citizens of North Carolina. Resources for business rank among the top twenty university libraries in the country, with strengths in accounting, banking and finance, business history, consulting, e-commerce and information technology, international business and economics, investments (including capital markets, portfolio management, and taxation), logistics (especially supply-chain management), management theory and practice (including development of management thought), marketing and advertising, operations research and statistics, real estate and urban development, sustainable enterprise, company and statistical data, and world-class holdings for population/demography. Materials related to the American South and North Carolina specifically are among the most extensive found anywhere. The libraries acquire English-language books and periodicals (including e-journals) comprehensively from all parts of world and subscribe to the major databases. Because the libraries also support graduate programs in economics and dozens of social science fields, resources on related subjects of interest to faculty and students are typically available on campus.

The Walter Royal Davis Library houses the major collections and services for business. With the exception of most older government documents and individual titles in large microform collections, nearly all library holdings are in the online catalog. In addition to comprehensive general and reference collections, Davis Library also has important specialized resources for business in its geographic information systems service and the government information and microforms collections.

The Media Resources Center, located in the House Undergraduate Library complements Davis Library with its audiovisual resources in business. Wilson Library's North Carolina Collection has in-depth resources related to North Carolina. The Law Library has important holdings for legal studies and specialized areas such as taxation. In addition to global holdings of more than five million volumes, over four million microforms, nearly two million government documents, hundreds of thousands of audiovisuals, maps and photographs, tens of thousands of print subscriptions, campus libraries offer more than 500 databases and over 40,000 electronic journals.

Complementing Carolina's collections, Duke University Libraries' John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History contains more than 3,000,000 textual and multimedia items, while the NCSU libraries have strong holdings of specialized materials in production management. The libraries' membership in the Center for Research Libraries provides users with additional collections of specialized materials, particularly foreign dissertations and government publications, books and periodicals not in English from outside the United States, foreign newspapers, U. S. general newspapers, ethnic newspapers published in North America, and foreign bank and related economic publications.