Catalogue describes Estonian-language books, booklets, serials and monographs published in series, dissertations and abstracts, preprints, and off-prints published in 1632-1998. A certain number of UT diploma theses and awarded papers were added into the catalogue in 1991-1998. All Estonian-language library materials can be found in the e-catalogue ESTER.

Catalogue describes, by using subject headings, Estonian-language books, off-prints, journals, magazines and serials, newspapers, dissertations, diploma theses and awarded papers published in 1632-1944, but does not include all works of fiction published in this period. The catalogue is provided with the subject headings list “Eestikeelse kirjanduse (ilmunud 1632-1944) märksõnakataloogi süstemaatiline märksõnaloend” (“Systematic Subject Headings List of Estonian-language publications (1632-1944”).

UDC system-based catalogue contains Estonian- and foreign-language publications: books, serial publications with separate titles, small prints, off-prints, and printed music published since 1945; UT dissertations published since 1969; author abstracts and foreign dissertations published since 1988. Systematic catalogue of UT manuscript research papers (TT) was added to the class 37 of the systematic catalogue in 1989.

Catalogue contains the basic-entry cards of the collective entries of Estonian-language periodicals, indicating the number of copies (or their accession numbers) of periodicals in library collections, the supplementary cards and supplementary entries in periodicals catalogues and the full UDC index of the systematic catalogue of periodicals. Entries for separate copies of serial publications, which have been provided with individual entries in the catalogue of books, have been marked with asterisk (*) in the collective entries for serials.

UDC system-based catalogue contains titles of periodicals describing Estonian- and foreign-language journals and magazines and newspapers published in 1957-1998.

Catalogue describes Estonian-language publications, published up to 1998, held at the former Branch Library of the Humanities, (earlier, the library of the Faculty of History and Linguistics). Collections of the branch library has been merged with the UT Library.

Catalogue describes publications in foreign languages using Latin script, published from the 17th century up to 1998, held at the former Branch Library of the Humanities, (earlier, the library of the Faculty of History and Linguistics). Collections of the branch library has been merged with the UT Library.

Catalogue describes publications in foreign languages using Latin script, published from the 17th century up to 1998, held at the former Branch Library of the Humanities, (earlier, the library of the Faculty of History and Linguistics). Collections of the branch library has been merged with the UT Library.

Catalogue contains data about publications catalogued at a hundred subunits of the university (chairs, offices, laboratories, museums and libraries) in 1953-1971. It contains books, monographs published under serials, diploma theses, journals, serials, off-prints, microfilmed books and articles, and maps. The catalogue is divided into two parts for publications in the Estonian language and in foreign languages using Latin and Slavic scripts.

Catalogue contains entries in Latin and Slavic script for recorded music and sound recordings (language teaching, works of literature, etc.).

Catalogue contains entries in Latin script mainly for vinyl records. For records with Russian-language labels, the name of the author has been written in Latin script and the name of the record has been translated into Estonian. Entries for cassette tapes were added to the catalogue in the 1990s.

System for the catalogue was developed at the library.

Catalogue presents publications acquired to the meteorology laboratory library at the University of Tartu Meteorological Observatory in 1877-1948, containing meteorological yearbooks of all countries of the world of the time, more important geophysical journals and books, maps of meteorological observations, etc.