- About Bahá'í Library Online, by Jonah Winters (1997-2025). Background of this private, non-profit library: credits, history, content, ownership, notes.
- Accessing literature on the Bahá'í Faith: Emerging search technologies and recent results, by Graham Hassall (2007). Survey of search technologies that can be used to find documentation on the Bahá'í religion, and a summary of results of such searches for the period 2003-2006.
- Bahá'í Library Online at 25: Background, Functioning, and Future, by Jonah Winters (2022-05). Notes written for the 25th anniversary of this website.
- Book Search: Jump to any page of the Sacred Writings or Primary Literature, Brett Zamir, comp. (2005). Jump to any page in any book of the Sacred Writings. See also Random page.
- Bulletin Board Archive 1997-2003, by Various (1997-2003). The first Forum on the site.
- Contact us, send corrections, or submit a document
- Contributors and assistants, by Various (2000). List of people who have donated significant amounts of time to building the Bahá'í Library (now outdated).
- Copyright options for submissions to the Bahá'í Library Online, by Brett Zamir (2006).
- Diacritics and transliteration, by Jonah Winters (2002). Brief overview -- now outdated -- of the Library's policy on the use of diacritics; includes links to other documents on the topic.
- Download Bahá'í Library Online: database only, by Jonah Winters (2013/2020/2025). Download the Bahá'í Library database. Download direct from archive.org, or by faster BitTorrent. [version 5.1, 2025-05]
- Download Bahá'í Library Online: offline archive of all files, by Jonah Winters (2025-05). Downloadable version of entire website, designed for use on your computer with local links, no need for an internet connection. Download direct from archive.org, or by faster BitTorrent. [version 5.1, 2025-05]
- Featured Pieces The Bahá'í Library Online posts a large amount of material, and interesting items can be overlooked. To highlight noteworthy additions, we select some to "feature."
- Featured Updates (2020-2025). List of items that have a significant update or new version, but are not new.
- International Conference on Bahá'í Libraries and Archives, Graham Hassall, ed. (2003-01). Conference convened at Landegg International University for people to share experiences, learn about best practices, and begin developing a structure for world interaction among those who handle and organize Bahá’í library and archival materials.
- Links to Bahá'í blogs, resources, organizations
- New Wave of Bahá'í Intellectual Thought, A: The Impact and Contributions of World Order Magazine, by Seena Fazel (2023). The main themes and papers in World Order, interviews with editors, listing of the number of articles by topic, and summary of available information on the most cited (from Google Scholar) and downloaded (from Bahá'í Library Online) World Order papers.
- Notes on Copyright, by Jonah Winters, Brett Zamir (1998). Notes about various copyright schemes followed by the Bahá'í Library Online, with links to the US Library of Congress' copyright information website.
- Organizing Digital Collections: The Case of the Bahá'í Academics Resource Library, by Dharlene Valeda (2001-05/2003-01). Library Science analysis of the Bahá'í Library's content and architecture, observations about online information retrieval, and ways to structure digital libraries.
- PDF Support
- Proposed Changes for Version 6, by Jonah Winters (2024-07/2025). Some structural or systemic improvements necessary for future Bahá'í Library expansion 2025-.
- RIS Citation Export, by Jonah Winters (2025-02). Citation export details for database interoperability; import instructions for reference managers like Endnote, Zotero, Mendeley.
- RSS Feeds Really Simple Syndication page for new Bahá'í Library content.
- Site Map Simplified index to all content on Baha'i Library Online.
- Sites hosted by the Bahá'í Library Online, by Various Collections or website projects maintained by individuals; most are no longer maintained.
- To-Do List and Features Requests, by Jonah Winters (2003-2015). Changes planned, requested, in-progress, or one-day hoped for. [Outdated list; not updated since 2015.]
- Vision Statement / Mandate of the Bahá'í Library Online, by Jonah Winters (2003 / 2010). Early description of content, intent, and functioning of the Bahá'í Library Online. Now outdated, but still a serviceable statement of purpose.
- What is a Content Management System?, by Jonah Winters (2003-08). A brief overview of the technology underlying the Bahá'í Library Online circa 2003, and why this technology represents the next step in the Internet's evolution [since this essay was written, the term Web 2.0 has been popularized for said "next step"].
- What's New in Version 4, by Jonah Winters (2012-01). Some useful search and interface changes for 2012, in conjunction with the 15th birthday of the Bahá'í Library.
- What's New in Version 5, by Jonah Winters (2013-2025). Updates to BLO code. (This page was originally a list of structural improvements for Bahá'í Library and its expansion, planning for which began in 2013, and a redevelopment team convened in 2021 and funded in 2023; then the project reset/forked in 2024).
- Yerrinbool Report on Scholarship: 1999, by Graham Hassall (2000). Overview of worldwide Bahá'í scholarship projects, publications, and events - 1999; includes a progress report on the growth of the Bahá'í Library Online.
- Прежняя версия библиотеки (Previous Version of the Library), by Various (1999). Эта коллекция была составлена 12 лет назад, в 1999 году, и с тех пор не обновлялась. Original Russian page at the Bahá'í Library Online, from 1999.
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