On swisscollections you can find archive materials and unpublished papers, images, old and rare books, document collections, film material, manuscripts, maps, music recordings, sheet music, text recordings as well as entries in cantonal bibliographies from 14 institutions, including the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.

A specialised catalogue for precisely targeted searches, swisscollections is designed to complement the national library platform swisscovery. Collections, special holdings and bibliographies are now displayed in a proprietary layout geared to specific needs. swisscollections is therefore aimed at users working on local historical collections and modern special holdings. To meet those requirements and display data correctly, swisscollections draws on various data pools and acts as a metacatalogue.