Among the books available to researchers at Forbes Library are:

A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From Galicia; Alexander Beider
Lists 25,000 surnames used by Jews in Galicia.
A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Kingdom of Poland; Alexander Beider
A compilation of 32,000 Jewish surnames with origins in the part of the Russian Empire known as the Kingdom of Poland.
A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Russian Empire; Alexander Beider
A compilation of 50,000 Jewish surnames from the Russian Pale of Settlement.
Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy; Sallyann Amdur Sack and Gary Mokotoff, Eds.
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust; Shmuel Spector and Geoffrey Wigoder, eds. 3 volume set
Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide; Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman.
From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Personal History; Arthur Kurzweil.
How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust; Gary Mokotoff.
Jews in the Russian Army: Through the Military Towards Modernity (1827--1914); Yohanan M. Petrovsky-Shtern, PhD
Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories; David S. Zubatsky and Irwin M. Berent. A guide to over 22,000 published and manuscript genealogies in archives and libraries worldwide.
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok Yaffa Eliach 800 pp. 1998.
Where Once We Walked - Revised Edition A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust; Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack, with Alexander Sharon. A gazetteer of over 23,500 Central and Eastern European localities, including 17,000 alternate names, map coordinates, and Jewish population prior to the Holocaust.
Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy. Periodical. Sallyann Amdur Sack and Gary Mokotoff, editors. Subscription beginning 2005.