After more than 40 years of development, the collection construction has formed a collection system which is mainly based on Chinese medicine literature, supplemented by western medicine literature and compatible with other disciplines. There are 550,000 books and periodicals in the library, including 6.5438+0.8 million Chinese medicine books, and more than 40,000 paper documents are added every year. There are more than 600 kinds of Chinese medicine thread-bound books/kloc-0, with ***3350; Among them, there are more than one kind of rare books, rare books 100, and a few rare books, mainly in Ming and Qing dynasties, are mostly medical books. As the only national key university library that has entered the "2 1 1" project, its collection has distinctive characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, and its collection of books on traditional Chinese medicine culture is relatively complete. It has independently developed e-books and postgraduate papers of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. Our library has developed the China medical bibliography database, and collected 65,438+02,000 kinds of books and materials (including Hong Kong and Taiwan publications) on Chinese medicine. It is a database with comprehensive collection of traditional Chinese medicine materials, more retrieval functions and higher standardization in China. The library has established a computer local area network, which is connected with the campus network. Our library can provide readers with services such as literature borrowing, reading, retrieval, internet access, retrieval and novelty retrieval, and at the same time, our library has more than 40 databases for teachers and students to retrieve and retrieve.