The spectrum of subject matters is comprehensive, reaching from regional studies to history, law and administration, society, economy and technology, up to education and academic research, literature, art and technology. The database also contains fiction, such as literature in local dialects and detective stories related to the region.
The database offers differentiated search options for authors, keywords and subject headings, first words of titles, etc. A comfortable access point is also given via the systematic search or the system's subject register.
The Bavarian Bibliography is a cooperative project. Further participants in addition to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek are the state libraries of Ansbach, Augsburg, Bamberg, Coburg, Dillingen, Neuburg an der Donau, Passau and Regensburg, as well as the university libraries of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Regensburg and Würzburg.