ISEAS Library collections are organized and treated according to established international standards. This encompasses shelf arrangements and classification; and cataloguing, indexing and subject analysis.

Shelf Arrangements and Classification
Printed materials in the Open Stacks are arranged on the shelves according to the Library of Congress Classification scheme to facilitate browsing.

Other non-print materials, maps and documents are arranged according to their accession or running numbers.

Current journals, which are displayed are arranged by their titles in alphabetical order. Current newspapers are displayed according to their countries of origin, in alphabetical order.

Cataloguing, Indexing and Subject Analysis
Catalogue entries of the main collections and their descriptions are made according to the Anglo-American cataloguing rules, second edition, 2002 revision. The Library of Congress subject headings is the authority used to assign subject headings for each entry. In addition, the OECD Macrothesaurus as well as a number of specialized thesauri are used to assign descriptor terms to articles and documents which are indexed.

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