Since it commenced operations in the early 1970s, the Spielberg Archive has cataloged its holdings to facilitate maximum access. Many Archive users require specific visuals, and these are easily located via shot-listed or detailed descriptive entries. In the mid-1980s, computer entry of the original catalog cards was begun, using the ALEPH program. This project was completed by the end of the decade and all subsequent cataloging by Archive librarians has been computerized.

The entire catalog is accessible online, as is a secondary library of in-progress filmographic research, including films not held by the Archive. Selected still images from Archive titles and links to more than 200 full-length films are also being made available both as an additional field in the catalog record and through a portal on the Archive's website.

The Spielberg Archive's holdings include film, in a variety of gauges, many formats and standards of video and digital material on different carriers. By late 2003, the database contained approximately 10,000 catalog records for the above media.

Almost all the records in the Archive's library relate to moving images, necessitating more detail than the cataloging of printed matter. This originally required special fields in ALEPH. The use of the MARC cataloging system, planned for 2004, will result in greater standardization.

The Archive belongs to professional organizations, including the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), and the Israel Society of Libraries and Information Centers (ASMI). Over the years, the Archive has undertaken to transmit information in its specialist field through seminar days organized for local archives with film and video collections.