Catalogues, card catalogues, and databases of the Slavonic Library are available directly in the library.
Users can use several original paper and card catalogues directly on the premises of the Slavonic Library. Their addition was closed at the latest in the mid-1990s.
Catalogues freely available:
- Name catalogue of the basic library collection (closed in 1996)
- Subject catalogue (closed in 1996)
- Name catalogue of periodicals
- Name catalogue of scripts
- Name catalogue of offprints
- Map card catalogue
Catalogues available by arrangement with library staff:
- General Catalogue (also available on microfiche or in scanned form)
- Catalogue of the Russian Foreign Historical Archive: books, magazines, newspapers (also available on microfiche; books also in scanned form)
- Union Catalogue of Russian newspapers of the Russian Historical Foreign Archive
- Catalogue of Slavic articles in foreign periodicals
- Catalogue of world literary production in the fields of historical sciences, linguistics, and literary studies
- Substantive sub-catalogues (subject and systematic)
- Catalogues of the Ukrainian Historical Cabinet
- Catalogue of the Smirdin Library
- Card catalogue of selected Slavonic writers (Dostoevsky, Franko, Gorky, Pushkin, Sienkiewicz, Shevchenko, Tolstoy)
- Card catalogue of Czech-related articles in Pravda (Moscow) from 1918-1939
- Catalogue of the collection of Russian historical documents of economic character