The Library's early catalogues of printed books are available online, either as scans of library copies or via Early English Books Online (login required).
The Library preserves a large quantity of its own administrative records from 1602 to the present. They reflect the various aspects of the work of the Library over four centuries (though few series are complete for the whole period), including: Curators' minutes and reports; accounts and bills; papers concerning the construction and repair of buildings; correspondence with donors, depositors and enquirers; papers about the acquisition and cataloguing of collections, records of readers' admission and book orders; material about exhibitions; and the records of modern departments and dependent libraries.
There is no published catalogue of this material, but draft finding aids can be made available on request in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Reading Room.
Access to certain records less than 80 years old is restricted.
Please see Finding Aids - Early Modern & Modern Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library for more information.