About 3000 books and pamphlets, mostly published in Britain, the majority on astronomy but also some works on geology, physics and chemistry, as well as a small group of Tanock's personal papers.

About 7600 music scores and albums, mainly piano and vocal works published in France, Britain, Germany, Austria and Italy in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Pamphlets, tracts and leaflets published in Britain and Ireland between 1770 and 1976 that describe, debate and criticize the political, economic, social and religious affairs, divisions and conflicts in Ireland.

About 360 titles, particularly strong in first editions of English poetry and novels published in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

50 oral history recordings with 149 interviewees containing reminiscences, stories and music relating to Scottish oral traditions in Australia.

3099 books & pamphlets, plus modern facsimile editions of medieval manuscripts with a strength in English philology, including English dialects, as well as European poetry, novels, literature, and religion.

About 1300 pamphlets and tracts published in Britain between 1829 and 1882.

Over 3,000 printed pamphlets, leaflets and issues of periodicals, mostly published 1900-1970, plus a collection of microfiche and microfilm of other publications, produced by left-wing parties and organisations in the period 1961–88.

About 6200 books about European literature, history and culture, mostly published in the period 1880-1960. 

About 4000 books, mostly published in France in the 19th and early 20th century, as well as a number of German, Italian, Latin and Greek books.