The sous-fonds of the vice president’s office consist of records made or received in fulfillment of the management and administrative requirements of the university. These records document the supervision of functions and activities of subordinate bodies; research, creation and elaboration of university programs, including academic development and community outreach; participation in presidential, university and various ad hoc committees; liaison with bodies internal to the university, such as faculty or the Alma Mater Society as well as external bodies, including, other universities, government and the private sector. The records also record budget preparation and correspondence regarding administrative matters.

There are six series in this sous-fonds dedicated to the following offices and office holders: Vice President Student and Academic Services 1986 - 2003; Vice President Administration and Finance - 1984 - 1987; Vice-President of Faculty and Student Affairs - 1975-1984; Deputy President and Bursar – William White - 1969-1984; Deputy Vice President – W.M. Armstrong - 1969-1974; Vice-President of University Academic/ Development/ Provost 1975-1985. In addition, the sous-fonds include the Vice Presidents Administrative Subject Files, 1981 series, Universities Council of British Columbia, 1974- 1983] series, and The Association of Commonwealth Universities series, 1978.

The sous-fonds consists of miscellaneous personal correspondence and notes regarding Dr. Slaymaker's research interests. The Miscellaneous series is the only series in the sous-fonds.

In 1986 the Library obtained a grant through the Canada-British Columbia Subsidiary Agreement on Science and Technology Development to develop and operate a patent search service. PATSCAN was designed to promote patent literature as a source of information; expand easier and more effective access to Canadian patent literature, and provide a patent search service to faculty and students. Located in the Science and Engineering Division in Main Library, PATSCAN operated under the direction of Ron Simmer until 2004.
The sous-fonds consist of records generated in PATSCAN activities and includes correspondence, reports, examples of patent search results, PATSCAN newsletters, and printed materials (including course/training materials and brochures). The materials are arranged in three series: Reports, Printed Materials, and General.

Sous-fonds consists of correspondence to Brennan from Riddehough and Brennan and Doreen Nalos from Riddehough. These often included copies of his poetry. The series also includes correspondence to Brennan from Riddehough's acquaintances after his death and from the trust company concerning his estate.

Sous-fonds consists of correspondence, reports, course materials, notes, and clippings.

Sous-fonds consists of over 1,000 photographs pertaining to Lowry. Many depict one or both of the Lowrys at Dollarton, their various residences in the USA, Europe, and Mexico, their friends, family, and literary agents and publishers.

The sous-fonds consist of correspondence from Daniells' family after his death from friends. While many of these are laudatory or conventional, others contain interesting recollections. For this reason, they have been placed with the collection even though they are not, technically speaking, part of the Roy Daniells papers.

The Reading Rooms Division was responsible for departmental reading rooms until the 1983/1984 academic year. In 1983/1984, the Division was disbanded, and responsibility for reading rooms shifted to individual departments. The Library’s Serials Division assumed responsibility for ordering reading room subscriptions, paid for by the department, until 1997.

Sous-fonds primarily consists of correspondence between the Serials Division and departmental reading rooms.

Providing reference services for its patrons - helping them find research materials and teaching them how to use the Library - is one of the Library's core functions. In 1920 Frances Woodworth was appointed the first "Superintendant of Reading Room and Reference Librarian." Reference services expanded rapidly, and by 1937 a separate Reference Division, headed by Anne M. Smith, had been established. The Division was responsible for coordinating all reference services until 1960 when it was disbanded and its staff and services distributed among the newly-created subject divisions. There was an addition to this sous-fonds of 5 cm of textual material by Associate University Librarian, Research, Lea Starr, in January 2020.
The sous-fonds consists of the Division's monthly and annual reports and minutes of its staff meetings, bound into six volumes. Included with Associate University Librarian Lea Starr's materials is correspondence regarding the Tsilhot'in Archive, cIRcle Collections related files, Koerner Library renovations and terms of reference for the Art in the Library Task Group.

The sous-fonds consists of miscellaneous incoming and outgoing correspondence (1928-1957).

Work records reflect Splane's work in Alberta, his time in the RCAF, his lengthy career in the federal government, and his time at UBC. Personal records reflect Splane's social life and interest in social welfare outside his profession. These records include correspondence, curriculum vitae, photographs (print and digital), notes, articles and publications, meeting minutes and agenda, and certificates.

Sous-fonds contains typed copies of approximately 100 letters from Malcolm Lowry to various friends, editors, publishers, and translators of his works. Harold Matson, Albert Erskine, and David Markson are frequently recurring addressees. The only incoming letter to Lowry (also a typed copy) is from Arthur Lowry, Malcolm Lowry’s father.

The sous-fonds also includes a typescript of a prose text of uncertain authorship which in part details Lowry’s 1949 stay at a Vancouver hospital with a broken back and ribs. Excerpts of letters are also included in the prose account.

In 1960 the Reference Division was disbanded, and its staff and services were distributed among several newly-created subject divisions. One of these was the Science Division, located in the new south wing of the Main Library. Its staff was responsible for providing reference services in the physical sciences (except biological sciences, centred at Woodward/Life Sciences) and engineering. It was re-named Science and Engineering in 1992.
Sous-fonds consists of annual and other reports from the Science Division and floor plan drawings for parts of the Main Library where the Division and its collections were located.

A separate library for first and second-year undergraduate students was established in 1960 when the College Library was established in the new south wing of Main Library. In 1964 it was renamed the Sedgewick Library after former professor and head of the Department of English Garnet G. Sedgewick. The growth of both its collections and the University's undergraduate population made it necessary for Sedgewick Library to move to new facilities, and in 1969 Rhone & Iredale Architects were commissioned to design a new undergraduate library. The new Sedgewick Library was opened in January 1973 – it was located underground, beneath Main Mall and directly across from Main Library. The building received several awards: 1970 Best Design Award, Canadian Architecture Yearbook; 1974 First Award of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada as the best building of all kinds built-in 1973; 1980 Honour Award, Architectural Institute of British Columbia. The continuing growth of the Library's collections eventually forced the ideal of a separate undergraduate facility to be abandoned, and in 1996 Sedgewick Library was absorbed into a new central facility, the Walter C. Koerner Library.
The sous-fonds consists primarily of records generated in planning and building the underground Sedgewick Library and includes reports, correspondence, drawings, minutes, printed materials, and photographs of the building nearing completion. These make up the Planning, Design and Construction series. There is also a series called Reports, which consists of reports on overdue books and related issues, and an Architectural Plans series.
Architectural drawings were transferred to the University Archives in 1988. They include original manuscript drawings, construction plans from the various contractors, proposals for alterations, and contractors' plans for alterations.

The Special Collections Division was established in 1960 to preserve and make the Library's rare and valuable books, manuscripts, maps, and special subject collections available to researchers. However, its origins date to 1943 and 1945, when the private libraries of Judge Frederic William Howay and Dr. Robie Lewis Reid, respectively, were donated to the Library. These collections included thousands of books and other publications regarding the history of British Columbia and Canada and numerous maps, photographs, and manuscripts. They together surpassed the "Canadiana" holdings of almost every other Library in the country. Since 1960 the Division's holdings have grown to include graduate theses, university archives, cartographic and architectural materials, fine press books, and early children's books. The Division has been headed by Basil Stuart-Stubbs (1960-1964), Anne Yandle (1964-1991), Hans Burndorfer (1992-1996), Brenda Peterson (1996-2001), and Ralph Stanton (2001- ). In 1991 the name was changed to "Special Collections and University Archives Division" to reflect the increased operational and administrative importance of the University Archives within both the Division and the university.
The sous-fonds consists of records generated in the course of the Division's activities and include correspondence, reports, minutes, financial documents, and printed/published materials. They are arranged in the following series: Division and Library Records, U.B.C. Committees and Departments, External Correspondence, Special Collections Records (continuation of Division and Library Records), Correspondence - Incoming and Outgoing (continuation of External Correspondence), and Map Collections.
The early records in this sous-fonds complement and, to some extent, overlap those in the Basil Stuart-Stubbs series in the Librarian's Office sous-fonds, reflecting that Stuart-Stubbs was head of the Division immediately before he became University Librarian.

The sous-fonds consists of miscellaneous correspondence (1910-1951), documents/correspondence relating to a house in Florence (1920-1952), and poems (1928-1963).

Technical Services is the Library division responsible for cataloguing Library holdings and maintaining the computer hardware and software on which the Library’s catalogue exists.

Sous-fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, budgets, legal agreements and reports documenting the functions and activities of Technical Services and technical manuals documenting the Library’s catalogue systems, disaster plans, digitization plans, and strategic plans.

The sous-fonds consists of a manuscript, Tahiti: South Sea and Other Missionary Matters, 1788-1803, papers of T. Haweis transcribed and edited by Lionel Haweis (1942), a ministry certificate (1796) and other miscellaneous items.

The sous-fonds consists of miscellaneous correspondence.

The records in this sous-fonds reflect Verna Huffman Splane's work for the World Health Organization, the federal government, and as a faculty member at UBC and the University of Victoria. These records include government reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, articles, course outlines and notes. In addition, personal records reflect Verna's social life and interest in social welfare outside her career. These records include correspondence, curriculum vitae, photographs (print and digital), notes, articles and publications, meeting minutes and agenda, and certificates.

The sous-fonds consists primarily of correspondence to and from Doyen, predominantly from early 1973. Contents include correspondence with publishers and agents who worked with Lowry (notably Conrad Aiken, Clarisse Francillon, and James Stern), Lowry’s brother Wilfrid Lowry, other Lowry scholars (including Brian O’Kill), the Leys School, which Lowry attended, and the Wallasey Public Libraries (Wallasey absorbed the town in which Lowry lived as a child). Also included is a copy of a newspaper article about the suicide of one of Lowry’s friends at Cambridge.

Sous-fonds consists of articles, addresses, lecture notes, correspondence, exams, conference programs, and publications pertaining to Sadler's professional life.

The sous-fonds consists primarily of correspondence and articles about Lowry’s works. McConnell kept up correspondence with Margerie Lowry and the Crowleys in particular which spanned several decades. Also included in the sous-fonds is a short story by McConnell based on a visit with the Lowry’s at the Dollarton shack, which was published almost thirty years after Lowry’s death.

The sous-fonds is predominantly composed of a partial manuscript of Under the Volcano, including annotated chapters and notes. Correspondence is from Lowry and people in the publishing industry whose employers either helped to publish or rejected Under the Volcano.

Sous-fonds consists of records documenting the planning and organization of the "Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives" conference, including correspondence, reports, minutes, and published materials. It is arranged in two series: Conference Proposals and Miscellaneous Files.

The building of the Woodward Library was made possible by a gift from the P.A. Woodward Foundation. Opened in 1964, it served as the new home of the Biomedical Library, established in 1957 in the Faculty of Medicine's Wesbrook Building after operating as a reading room since 1950. The Woodward Library maintains specialized research materials for the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the School of Nursing, and the various biological science programmes.
The sous-fonds primarily consists of records generated during the planning, construction, and initial operation of the Woodward Library and includes correspondence, reports, and architectural drawings. It also contains materials related to various committees and funds that the head librarian of Woodward Library chaired in the 1990s, including minutes, correspondence, financial documents, and memoranda.

With collections and services that reflect Aboriginal teaching, learning, and research approaches, the X̱wi7x̱wa Library is the centre of academic and community Indigenous scholarship. In the early 1970s, it began as the "Indian Education Resource Centre." In May 1993, the First Nations House of Learning Longhouse and Library facility opened with a $1 million donation from William and June Bellman. In 1995, Gene Joseph was appointed as the Library's first Head Librarian. The Library became a branch of the UBC Library in 2005.
The sous-fonds consists of records generated in the course of X̱wi7x̱wa Library activities and includes correspondences, reports, meetings' minutes and agenda, memos, budgets, applications, notes, class/course materials, conference materials, newsletters, journals, newspapers clippings, and photographs. It is divided into seven series – "Indian Education Resources Centre" (IERC), administration, programs and projects, committees, conferences, miscellaneous, and photographs.