The Senate Library's basic collection includes the following:

• Philippine Statutory Instruments from 1900 to present, in their official texts, with subject and popular name indexes, numerical listings and tables of amendments and repeals;

• Presidential Issuances

• Rules of the Senate of the Philippines

• Record of the Senate, 1945 - 1971; 1987 -

• Journal of the Senate, 1987 -

• History of Bills and Resolutions, Senate, 1950 -

• Journal of the Impeachment Trial, 2000 - 2001

• Record of the House of Representatives, 1945 - 1969; 1987 -

• Rules of the House of Representatives

• Journal and Record, House of Representatives, 1987 -

• History of Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 1945 - 1970

• Record of the Batasan, 1978 - 1985

• Journal of the Batasan, 1978 - 1983

• Journal of the Batasan Sitting as Constituent Assembly, 1980 - 1981

• History of Bills and Resolutions of the Batasan, 1978 - 1985

• Records of the 1934 - 1935 Constitutional Convention

• Record/ Journal of the Constitutional Commission of 1986

• Text of Constitution

  - 1899 Malolos Constitution
  - 1935 Constitution
  - 1973 Constitution
  - 1986 Constitution

• Treatises

• Official Gazettes

• Philippine Reports, 1901 - 1967 Vol. 1 - 126