The Gosteli Foundation differentiates between the archives of Women’s organisations and Women’s unions, private archives of female individuals and biographical notes. Together, these records document the manifold activities of Swiss women since the late 19th century.
Online available are overviews about private archives and archives of women's organisations.

The archives also include:

• Magazines of the feminist movement
• Pamphlets on feminist issues
• Material on women’s professions, women in work, suffrage, women’s congresses and women’s exhibitions
• Theses, degree theses, licentiates and term papers
• Magazine collections
• Newspaper articles
• Audio and video material
• Collections of biographies of both Swiss and foreign women

The Archive on the history of women in Switzerland serve to hold the sources for the history of women. It offers opportunities and support to all researchers in their work. The archives maintain contact with institutions both at home and abroad.

The Geneva Jewish Library disposes of more than about 30'000 volumes. It encloses a part (about 1000 volumes) of the collections of the library of the rabbi's seminar of Wroclaw which was destroyed by the Nazis. It also owns a manuscript of David Gans, the Sefer Nehmad ve-naïm, resulted in 1613 in Prague.

The Library of the Tibet Institute is a specialized scientific library open to the public. With over 12’000 titles, it is one of the world’s largest libraries of Tibetology.
Books (including rare items such as the original edition of Guiseppe Tucci’s Tibetan Painted Scrolls), separate prints (documenting the foundation and construction of the monastery and the Tibetan people in Switzerland), journals and newspapers in Tibetan language, films, audio recordings, collection of maps, press documentation, photographic documentation.
The holdings of the library are availabel by a direct catalogue or by the catalogue IDS Zürich University.

The Werner Oechslin Library in Einsiedeln chiefly assembles source texts on architectural theory and related areas in original editions extending from the 15th to the 20th century. Over 50,000 volumes document the development of theory and systematic attempts at comprehension and validation in the context of humanities and science. The core area of architecture is augmented in a consequential way by related fields ranging from art theory to cultural history, and from philosophy to mathematics.

The wealth of ancient myths and legends which we call Classical Mythology is one of the major elements of our cultural heritage. The study of its iconographic representations is the main aim pursued by the Foundation for the LIMC. Its first task was the preparation and publication of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC - illustrated lexicon about the ancient myths), completed in 1999. This work has been continued by the Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA), focused on the domain of cult and rite.

The WCC libraries contains works concerning ecumenism, ecclesiology, mission, church history, interfaith dialogue, human rights etc. It also contains a collection of 1200 periodicals (list of current periodicals). The library catalogue is a part of the RERO catalogue Geneva.
The Archives enclose the whole documentation made by the WCC since his foundation: Documents with regard to his origin, assemblies, central and executive committees, divisions, departments, correspondence of the general secretariat etc. Besides, the Archives contain the documents of other important ecumenical organisations.
The WCC Archives also contain photo and multimedia collections (sound material, films and videos, microforms).
The inventories of the holdings are online available in the PDF format and also a search engine.

The archives contain more than eighty estates and collections of important composers, interpreter and other personalities from the whole world. The estates contain autographs, scores, sketches and draughts, text manuscripts, correspondence, parts of the personal library and other documentation material. The library disposes of scientific literature about the music of 20. and 21. Cent., as well as about a collection of magazine articles and a big continuance of mark expenses. The archive is meaningful for the history of music, theatre, dance and film.
Beside the archives and the library the Paul Sacher Foundation encloses also a record collection and a video holding.