AʿH = Arshīf ʿĀmm al-Ḥukūma, Tunis
AEK = Atıf Effendi (Yazma Eser) Kütüphanesi, Istanbul
AKI = Atatürk Kitapliği, Istanbul
AKID = Atatürk Kitapliği, Digital Collection (available only at computers in the AKI), Istanbul
Alex Mun = Municipality Library, Alexandria
Aqṣā = Periodical collections at the Al-Aqṣā Mosque Library in East Jerusalem. The collection was digitized by the "Endangered Archives Program" of the British Library and is available online.
AUB = The Library of the American University in Beirut
AUC = The Library of the American University in Cairo
Ayn = Maktabat Sāmī al-ʿAyntābī, Aleppo
BDK = Beyazit Kütüphanesi, Istanbul
BibAlex = Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Some holdings are currently in the process of digitization and are made availabe through the Digital Assets Repository.
BL = British Library, London
BnA = Bibliothèque nationale d’Algerie, Algiers
BnF = Bibliothèque national de France, Paris
BOA = T.C. Başbakanlık – Osmanlı Arşıvı, İstanbul
Bod = Bodleian Library, Oxford
Bonn = Translatio, Universität Bonn, Germany. Holdings are constantly digitized and made publicly available online.
BOSJ = Bibliothèque Orientale, Université de Saint Joseph, Beirut
BS = Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München
Cam = Libraries of the University of Cambridge
CEALEX = Centre d'Études Alexandrines, Alexandria
Col = Columbia University Library
Cornell = Cornell University Library, Cornell University
CU = Library of Cairo University
Dayr al-Mukh = Dayr al-Mukhlis, Lebanon
DKQ = Dār al-Kutub al-Qawmiyya (Egyptian National Library), Cairo
DKQM = Dār al-Kutub al-Qawmiyya Microfilm Collection (Egyptian National Library), Cairo
DKT = Dār al-Kutub al-Waṭaniyya, Tunis
DKW = Dār al-Kutub al-Waṭaniyya (Lebanese National Library), Beirut (closed, its collections moved)
DKWT = Dār al-Kutub al-Waṭaniyya, Tunis
Dur = Durham University Library
FUAS = Freie Universität Berlin, Library of the Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik
FUI = Freie Universität Berlin, Library of the Institut für Islamwissenschaft
Harv = Libraries of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
HTU = Hakkı Tarık Us Collection of Beyazit State Library, Istanbul. The collection of periodicals was digitized by the Beyazit State Library and the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and is available online.
IDEO = Institut Dominicain d’Études Orientales au Caire, Cairo
IE = Institut Egyptien, Cairo
IMA = Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
INALCO = Bibliothèque interuniversitaire des langues orientales, INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris)
Ind Off = India Office Library, London
INL = Iraqi National Library and Archives. Some of its holdings were digitized and are available through the World Digital Library.
Ir Mus = Iraq Museum, Baghdād, Iraq
IÜ = Istanbul Üniversitesi Merkez Kütüphanesi, Istanbul
Kew = Kew Library, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Len = Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
LoC = Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Mak al-Bulisiyya = Maktabat al-Būlīsiyya, Lebanon
MEC = Middle East Centre Library, St Antony’s College, Oxford
MK = Millet (Yazma Eser) Kütüphanesi, Istanbul
MKAD = Milli Kütüphanesi (National Library of Turkey), Digital Periodical Collection (available online), Ankara
MTQ = Markaz al-Tawthīq al-Qawmī, Tunis
NEST = Near East School of Theology / Maktabat Kulliyyat al-Lāhut li’l-Sharq al-Adnā, Beirut
NLoI = National Library of Israel
NYPL = Public Library of New York
OIB = Orient Institut Beirut
Prin = Princeton University Library, Princeton
SBB = Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
SK = Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Istanbul
SOAS = School of Oriental and African Studies Library, University of London
Stan = Standford University, Hoover Library
StPL = St. Petersburg University Library, Russia
Tet = Bibliothèque Générale et Archives de Tétouan, Tetouan, Morocco
TUB = Library of Tübingen University, Tübingen
UBagh = University of Baghdad
UH = University of Haifa
UPenn = University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Utah = University of Utah Library
Yale = Yale University Libraries
Zagh = Matḥaf Saʿd Zaghll (Bayt al-Umma), Cairo
Zāh = al-Maktaba al-Ẓāhiriyya, Damascus