The Centre possesses a body of archives and research material, the most important of which are a collection of US government documents on the 1958 crisis, collected by Dr Carolyn Gates; a collection of material on the Civil War of 1975-6 collected by Drs. Ahmad Khalidi and Hussein Agha; a collection from the Israeli State archives; and a collection of newspapers on the 1982 Israeli invasion collected by the late Leigh Douglas. A detailed index of the archives is available on request.

The Centre also builds the Lebanon book collection of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College. It does not have its own lending library but it is open for consultation by appointment. The Centre for Lebanese Studies houses a large number of articles and published documents in English, French and Arabic.

The Centre has donated papers from the late Emir Farid Chehab to the library at the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford. These relate to the period of the 1950's and 1960's.