The Library of the World Trade Organization specializes in economics, statistical and legal materials related to international trade. The Library holds some 40,000 monographs, more than 1,000 periodicals, and over 800 current yearbooks. In addition, it is home to the GATT Archives. In the database you can search here provides references to all of the above, except the Archives.

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 Historical Archives consist of about 70,000 pre-war and wartime files (1919-1947), 200,000 post-war files (1948-1978), together with a number of special collections, including the ILO Directors and Directors-General Archives - Albert Thomas (1920-1932), Harold Butler (1932-1938), John G. Winant (1939-1941), Edward Phelan (1941-1948), David A. Morse (1948-1970) and C. Wilfred Jenks (1970-1973); C. Wilfred Jenks’ private papers (1920-1973); the records of the International Labour Office (Basel, 1890-1919) and photographic and audiovisual collections.
The ILO maintains also a library with a database.

The record groups consist largely of various types of correspondence, internal communication and reports. Important collections include files on:
Reparations Office: secretariat files and a documentation library originating from the Berlin Reparations Office (Agent General for Reparations Parker Gilbert). They document the administration of reparations during the 1920s, a function taken over by the BIS and performed until the suspension of reparations by the Lausanne agreement (1932); the administration of international loans issued in connection with the Dawes and Young Plans (Dawes and Young Loans); the operation of the European Payments Union and the European Monetary Agreement from the late 1940s onward; international credit facilities in the granting of which the BIS has been involved e.g. 1966 and 1968 Sterling Group Arrangements; expert meetings and conferences organized by the BIS or in which the BIS participated; papers of senior managers: e.g. R Auboin, Dr E Hülse and Dr P Hechler. Papers of the first Presidents: G McGarrah and L Fraser; There are also over 250 customer and counterparty files, documenting banking policy and banking transactions between the BIS and its counterparties from 1930 (mainly central banks and international institutions).
Detailed information about the holdings of the archive are available in the BIS Archive Guide.

On behalf of the Swiss federal administration and in cooperation with national and international partners, the CSS runs the International Relations and Security Network (ISN), the Crisis and Risk Network (CRN), the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP), and the Swiss Foreign and Security Policy Network (SSN).

The CSS has an academic library with documentations in Swiss security policy and international politics.

The CSS makes numerous series, handbooks, studies and other publications online available.

The BAB have a library, a publishing company, an antiquarian bookshop and an archive with special collections. The General Archives comprise a press and documentation archive for all African countries, an archive for African liberation movements and an archive for anti-apartheid and solidarity movements. Other special collections are the Hans W. Debrunner Collection (with library and archive collections on various African regions and themes), a Photo Archives (with around 100,000 pictures), Manuscript Archives (with about 100 legacies and bequests), Poster Collection (with over 3,000 posters) and a Map Collection.