Anyone can come and use library materials for research. Students from other universities which Samford has a cooperative borrowing agreement with may checkout materials. This means that Samford students may borrow materials from their libraries as well. The libraries that Samford has an agreement with are:
- Bessemer State Tech
- Birmingham Southern College
- Birmingham Theological Seminary
- Faulkner University
- Jefferson State Community College
- Judson College
- Lawson State Jr. College
- Miles College
- New Orleans Seminary Extension Center
- Southeastern Bible College
- Spring Hill College (Birmingham Extension Center)
- UAB, Mervyn H. Sterne Library
- UAB, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
- University of Montevallo, Carmichael Library
