Beijing Normal University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Beijing. It ranks among the national "double-class", "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project" and is one of the first ten key universities in the Seventh Five-Year Plan and the Eighth Five-Year Plan.
After more than a hundred years of vicissitudes, the library of Beijing Normal University has gradually developed into a modern library with a building area of 4 1902. The main library covers an area of 32,000 ㎡, the south area of the main library and its branch libraries are 39 14.20㎡, and the G branch library of Changping Campus covers an area of 4,997 ㎡, totaling 4091.20 ㎡.
By the end of 20 18, the total number of paper documents had reached more than 510/0000, there were more than 37.82 million electronic journals in Chinese and foreign languages, more than 8.74 million electronic books in Chinese and foreign languages, and more than 37.82 million dissertations were introduced into Chinese and foreign databases.
Educational subject resources are our unique key construction collections. In 2008, our library became the first batch of national key protection units of ancient books approved by the State Council. At present, there are more than 30,000 kinds and 400,000 volumes of thread-bound ancient books, more than 3,500 kinds of rare ancient books, and 130 kinds of ancient books have been selected into the national precious ancient books list.
Discipline construction of Beijing Normal University;
The comprehensive strength of Beijing Normal University ranks among the top universities in China. In 2002, it became one of the first six universities with the right to set up undergraduate majors independently, and in 20 18, it became one of the first 20 universities to carry out independent examinations for degree authorization.
As of May, 20021,the school has 38 first-class disciplines authorized by master's degree, 32 first-class disciplines authorized by doctor's degree and 28 post-doctoral research stations. 38 disciplines cover 10 disciplines, forming a comprehensive discipline layout. 1 1 The discipline has entered the national list of "world-class disciplines".
The fourth round of the first-level discipline evaluation in 20 16 released by the Center for Degree and Postgraduate Education Development of the Ministry of Education shows that six first-level disciplines, such as school pedagogy, psychology, China language and literature, China history, drama and film, and geography, got A+, two first-level disciplines got A-, and seven first-level disciplines got A-, ranking sixth among universities in China.