The National and Academic Library (BNU) boasts 340 maps: 60 maps of Scandinavia as a whole and 280 of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Other regions include Iceland, Svalbard, Greenland, and the Arctic region.
Mostly from the 16th to the 19th centuries, these older maps were engraved by renowned cartographers, like Mercator, Ortelius, Janssonius, Homann, etc. and conjure up images of Vikings, myths, and fantastic beasts.

Bought from a private collector and expanded since, these 5,000 European posters come from many countries, and not just the European Union. Most posters were printed between the late 20th century and nowadays, and cover the topic of Europe in its broad definition: institutionnal posters, political posters (e.g. for the European Parliament's elections), posters on the early development of the European Union (e.g. on the Marshall Plan), posters on European history, culture, and economics.
A sample of this collection, which has been showcased during many exhibitions, is now available for online consultation.

The National & Academic Library (BNU) keeps about 40 maps of Urkaine. These are mostly older maps from the 17th to the 19th centuries, signed my renowned cartographers like Blaeu, Seutter, Lotter, Janssonius, and Homann.

Stoeber is a well-known family name in Alsace, particularly in Strasbourg and Mulhouse. In addition to numerous Stoeber brochures and notebooks, the Mulhouse municipal library holds the "Stoeber archive cabinet", a remarkable piece of literary history.
This archive comprises of numerous letters, family documents, genealogical records, and printed documents from this period. It was sorted by Robert Stoeber, Auguste Stoeber's great-nephew, who worked extensively on the documents, identifying, categorising, translitterating them, and more. Michel Stoeber, Auguste Stoeber's great-grand-nephew, devoted particular attention to translating the legends (Die Sagen des Elsasses) published in 2009 in "Mille ans d'Histoires, de Légendes et de traditions orales d'Alsace". He donated the archive to the City of Mulhouse in 2013.

The Société industrielle de Mulhouse's (SIM) preoccupation with social issues resulted in an abundant literature, published mostly in its Bulletin. Researchers backed by the University of Upper Alsace have reconstituted bundles of documentation with their comments, among which the large "Labour & Hazards" collection. Industrial automation may have reduced the harshness of manual labour, but it also became an important hazard.

The Société industrielle de Mulhouse (SIM) recruited its members among manufacturers from the Haut-Rhin département. Its membership increased during the Second French Empire, so much so that the society boasted 600 members in the early 1900s. This collection from the SIM academic library (BUSIM) gathers some 300 portraits of industrialists – mostly photographs of men – from the Mulhouse area all through the 19th century, with a few from the early 20th century.

The manufacturers from Mulhouse were pioneers in the expansion of French railway. 2011 saw the inauguration of the Rhin-Rhône TGV line, and the opportunity to showcase the rich collection of railway lithographs, maps, vignettes, and travel guides that are conserved at the academic library of the Société Industrielle de Mulhouse.

This unique collection gathers photographs of industrial buildings and landscapes, predominantly from the works of Pierre Fluck, lecturer and researcher at the University of Upper Alsace (UHA) and co-director of the CRESAT research centre, who specialises in the archeology of industrial machinery. The remaining 10% of photographs come from the works of various CRESAT members. These 16,000 pictures are divided into two collections: a regional iconography collection, and a collection on industrial sites spanning 16 European countries and North America.

We have been digitising past theses submitted to the University of Strasbourg.
This collection will soon extend to all theses defended until 1939 (end of year), for as long as these works are copyright-free.

The National & Academic Library (BNU) keeps more than a thousand rare documents from before 1800, either about or published in Scandinavian countries (40% of books were published in Denmark or Sweden). These books were for the most part donated when Karl August Barack, first Director of the BNU, made a public appeal to rebuilt the collections after the fire of 1870.