The University Library and dependents catalogue includes:

• all printed books published from 1978 onwards, with the exception of Official Publications
• all print journals
• all electronic journals
• maps catalogued since August 2000
• Microfilm, fiche and audiovisual materials after 1977
• sheet music and recorded music catalogued after 1990
• Dependent libraries: all printed books and journals in:
  • Betty and Gordon Moore library
  • Medical library
  • Central Science library
  • Squire Law library

The manuscripts and theses catalogue includes:

• Theses Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.), from 1970 onwards
  Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Master of Surgery (MChir) theses from May 2006 onwards
  
• Other Manuscripts
  The Catalogue contains collection-level records of a small proportion of the Library's manuscript holdings, together with some more detailed descriptions of particular collections.

The departments and faculties A-E catalogue includes:

• African Studies Centre Library
• ( Anatomy School Library collections now held in Physiology Library )
• Applied Economics Department Library
• Architecture and History of Art Library
• ( Asian and Middle Eastern Studies - formerly Oriental Studies, is located in the Departments and Faculties O-Z catalogue )
• Institute of Astronomy Library
• Botanic Gardens: Cory Library
• Biochemistry: Colman Library
• Chemistry Library
• Chemical Engineering Library
• Classical Faculty Library
• Computer Laboratory Library
• Criminology: Radzinowicz Library
• Divinity Faculty Library
• Earth Sciences Library>
• Education Faculty Library
• English Faculty Library
• Experimental Psychology Library

The departments and faculties F-M catalogue covers the following libraries:

• Centre for International Law
• Fitzwilliam Museum
• Genetics Library
• Geography Library
• Haddon Library
• Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
• Judge Business School Library
• Language Centre
• Marshall Library of Economics
• Material Science & Metallurgy Library
• Mill Lane Library
• Modern and Medieval Languages Library

The departments and faculties O-Z covers the following libraries:

• Asian and Middle Eastern Studies ( formerly Oriental Studies )
• Pathology Library
• Pendlebury Library of Music
• Philosophy Library
• Physiology Library (holds former Anatomy collections)
• Plant Sciences
• Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies
• Rayleigh Library
• Scott Polar Research Institute Library
• Seeley Historical Library
• South Asian Studies Library
• Veterinary Library
• Whipple Library
• Zoology Library

The colleges A-N catalogue covers the following libraries:

• Christ's College
• Churchill College
• Clare College: Forbes Mellon Library
• Corpus Christi College
• Darwin College
• Downing College
• Emmanuel College
• Fitzwilliam College
• Girton College
• Gonville & Caius College
• Homerton College
• Hughes Hall
• Jesus College
• King's College
• Lucy Cavendish College
• Magdalene College
• New Hall
• Newnham College

The colleges P-W covers the following libraries:

• Pembroke College
• Peterhouse College (Perne Library - rare material only)
• Queens' College
• Robinson College
• Selwyn College
• Sidney Sussex College
• St Catharine's College
• St Edmund's College
• St John's College
• Trinity College
• Trinity Hall
• Wolfson: Lee Library

The affiliates catalogue covers the following libraries:

• Ancient India & Iran Trust
• Blackfriars
• British Antarctic Survey
• Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme
• Cambridge Theological Federation
• Cambridge Union Society
• Institute of Technology
• MRC Human Nutrition Research Library
• Molecular Biology
• Needham Res.Inst.: East Asian History of Science
• Strangeways Research Laboratory
• Tyndale House
• Westfield House