diff --git a/doc/src/base/base.md b/doc/src/base/base.md
index eb40fc96c384e..35cf307cbb074 100644
--- a/doc/src/base/base.md
+++ b/doc/src/base/base.md
@@ -112,14 +112,14 @@ where
 []
 ```
 
-## Standard Modules
+## [Standard Modules](@id standard-modules)
 ```@docs
 Main
 Core
 Base
 ```
 
-## Base Submodules
+## [Base Submodules](@id base-submodules)
 ```@docs
 Base.Broadcast
 Base.Docs
diff --git a/doc/src/index.md b/doc/src/index.md
index 8342ff448625d..7d781f25b4235 100644
--- a/doc/src/index.md
+++ b/doc/src/index.md
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ and [Ruby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)).
 
 The most significant departures of Julia from typical dynamic languages are:
 
-  * The core language imposes very little; Julia Base and the standard library are written in Julia itself, including
+  * The core language imposes very little; [Julia Base and the standard library](@ref man-core-base-and-stdlib) are written in Julia itself, including
     primitive operations like integer arithmetic
   * A rich language of types for constructing and describing objects, that can also optionally be
     used to make type declarations
@@ -126,3 +126,40 @@ language. In addition to the above, some advantages of Julia over comparable sys
   * Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed)
   * Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes
   * Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming facilities
+
+## [Julia Standard Modules and the Standard Library](@id man-standard-modules-stdlib)
+
+The Julia runtime comes with [standard modules](@ref standard-modules),
+which are essential namespaces that are usually loaded automatically.
+
+```@docs; canonical=false
+Core
+Base
+```
+
+Julia's `Base` module contains various [useful submodules](@ref base-submodules).
+
+### [The Standard Library](@id man-stdlib)
+
+The Julia standard library contains additional, commonly used packages that are installed alongside the Julia runtime by default.
+To use a standard library package, it is first necessary to load the package with a [`using`](@ref) or [`import`](@ref) statement.
+Links to available standard library packages are provided below,
+and may also be found in the website sidebar.
+Their source code is available in the `Sys.STDLIB` directory of a Julia installation.
+
+```@eval
+import Markdown
+list = sort(filter(x -> match(r"_jll$", x) === nothing, readdir(Sys.STDLIB)))
+Markdown.parse(join("- [`" .* list .* "`](stdlib/" .* list .* ".html)", "\n"))
+```
+
+Julia also provides various standard, pre-built binary libraries
+of established software that is written in other languages.
+By convention, these packages have names that end with `_jll`.
+The [`using`](@ref) statement can load symbol names from these binary libraries:
+
+```@eval
+import Markdown
+list = sort(filter(x -> match(r"_jll$", x) !== nothing, readdir(Sys.STDLIB)))
+Markdown.parse(join("- [`" .* list .* "`](stdlib/" .* list .* ".html)", "\n"))
+```