The collection consists of reports, correspondence, borrowing agreements, and issues of the McGill University Medical Library News from December 1979 to December 1994. It also includes library guides; documents concerning off-site storage at the Currie Gym (1999, 2002, 2013); records of library opening hours from 1980 to 2000; and letters, emails, and a 13-page petition addressing low temperatures in the Health Sciences Library (1989–1991). Additional materials include reports and articles on air quality concerns in the Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building following lawsuits filed by Dr. Mishkin and Dr. Aaron after their leukemia diagnoses (2002), as well as the Life Sciences Library Concept Brief (2008).

The collection further holds pamphlets such as Walking Tour of McGill University (1990) and Continuity & Change: 175 Years of the McGill University Health Sciences Library (1999); reprints of historical articles on the medical library McGill University, The Medical Library (C.F. Wylde, 1927), History of the Medical Library, McGill University (M. Bickley, 1954), The McGill Medical Librarians, 1829-1929, (M. Benjamin, 1962), The Osler Library of the History of Medicine (Dr. Bates, 1967); a June 26, 2013 issue of The Montreal Gazette featuring the article McGill’s Medical Library is Closing, Staff Say; and a copy of C. Lyons’s Consultations regarding the Future of the Life Sciences Library: Possible Effects on the Osler Library (May 10, 2013).