According to statistics, the National Library of Singapore1March 1998 has a collection of 5.6 million books in Malay, Chinese, Tamil and English, including 4267 1 1 book and 27530 books. In the next few years, the National Library Administration will allocate a lot of money to buy books, periodicals and non-book materials, so as to achieve the goal of11400,000 copies in 2003. Focus on increasing the collection of e-books and CDs, making them account for 6% of the total collection, increasing the current 3% of audio-visual materials to 17%, and increasing the total proportion of non-printed materials to 23%.

Moreover, the collections of local libraries also have their own characteristics. The central regional library focuses on collecting books on business and finance; Tambini regional library will focus on information technology books; The library in Jurong East area mainly focuses on books in manufacturing and other industries; The library in Wulan area focuses on collecting specialized books on food and other light industries. By 2 1 century, the basic collections of regional libraries will account for 60%, and the remaining 40% will depend on the needs of readers in the region.

In 2005, the National Library of Singapore collected 8,857,677 documents in Malay, Chinese, Tamil and English, including 898,865,438+00 volumes of serial publications, 7,626,5438+0,765,438+07 volumes of monographs and special collections (works of art, maps and materials, etc. In these collections, the proportion of languages is: Malay 7. 15%, Chinese 22.83%, Tamil 3.48% and English 62.73%.