Yunnan university library consists of the library of the school headquarters and the library of Chenggong campus, with a total area of 53,975 square meters, and the average library area per student is 2. 17 square meters. Among them, the construction area of the library of the school headquarters is 17375 square meters, and the construction area of the library of Chenggong campus is 36600 square meters.

By September 30, 2006, the total collection of the school was 25 1 1748 (including 2269730 books in the library; The reference room has a collection of 2420 18 volumes), and the total number of books per student and the number of new books per student have reached and exceeded the undergraduate teaching evaluation standards of the Ministry of Education. The collection of books is mainly about bio-ecology, history, ethnology and local ethnic documents. There are more than 2,000 kinds of newspapers and periodicals in the collection of thread-bound books 170 170 of ancient books of the Republic of China.

There are also 433,369 e-books, 327 self-made e-books, 5 Chinese databases, foreign database 10, and microform materials 51.