The Catalogue of the Retrospective Bibliography of Articles comprises 10,000.000 catalogue leaflets containing lists of articles from periodicals (newspapers, journals, collections) published on the area of Yugoslavia in the period from the end of the 18th century all through to the year 1945.

The Library of the Institute of Lexicography comprises the Collection of Books with approximately 50,000 books and the Collection of periodicals with more than 1,300 various titles (journals and newspapers), whose structure is adapted to the needs of various fields of science. The most represented fields are those of literature, history and art.