Collections of the Matica Srpska Library are constantly increased by new sample copies, by purchased, exchanged and donated publications, as well as by the reception of FAO and UNESCO depository materials. Every year the collections are increased by approximatly sixty thousand publications.

According to the Law on Deposit Copy, the Library receives five copies of every publication published in Vojvodina. Two of them are for the basic and regional collections, the rest are exchanged by reciprocity with the Serbian National Library, as well as with the others libraries which preserve sample copies.

Serbian publications, which were not received as sample copies and the missing antiquity books and periodicals, are primarily purchased. The Library also buys selected editions of foreign books.

The traditional exchange of books and periodicals with over 300 related institutions (national libraries, academies, etc.) from 50 countries is especially significant. The Library sends Serbian books to slavistic centers all over the world, as well as Serbian libraries in Hungary, Romania and Croatia. About ten thousand publications are exchanged annually, including all the publications of Matica Srpska. In this way, the Library receives about 400 foreign periodical titles.

From its numerous donators, the Library receives as a gift 15 thousand publications each year. As a depository library for FAO and UNESCO publications, it annually receives about 50 books, periodicals and documentary materials.

From the beginning of its foundation the Matica Srpska Library has also been compiling all publications (books, periodicals, minor documentary material published in diaspora.

Tetra-Evangeliary from the end of the 16th century

Initials from Oktoih prvoglasnik of Djurdje Crnojevic