1. Books and newspapers
Peking University Library's official website information from June 2065438 to June 2006 shows that there are more than 2.63 million Chinese and foreign books in Peking University Library, among which foreign books contain more than 30 languages. There are more than 40,000 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals with English as the main language. The annual growth of books and newspapers is above 50,000 and 5,000 respectively.
2. Ancient books and documents
Ancient books are one of the most important collections in Peking University Library. According to Peking University Library's official website information in June 20 16, the total number of ancient books reached10.5 million, including about 20,000 kinds and 200,000 rare books. Since 2008, 352 rare books of ancient books in Peking University Library have been selected into the first, second and third batch of national precious ancient books lists determined by the Ministry of Culture and approved by the State Council.
The collection of ancient books in Peking University Library has the characteristics of large scale, all kinds, rich special collections and numerous treasures. Among the important collections are Dunhuang Paper No.288, more than 300 kinds of Song and Yuan engravings, and nearly 10,000 kinds of Ming engravings. According to the country of publication, there are more than 2,000 Japanese books and more than 200 Korean books. According to the production method, there are more than 9000 kinds of copying, manuscript and writing, and more than 3000 kinds of movable type; According to the content types, there are nearly 5,000 kinds of local chronicles and more than 2,200 kinds of genealogy, and a special collection of novels and operas, such as 1536 songs by Che, 928 kinds of opera novels by Ya Tang and more than 400 kinds of songs by Cheng. There are more than 40,000 kinds and 80,000 pieces of Jinshi rubbings in the collection, including all the collections of Miao Yifeng Tang and Zhang Liu. In addition, there are more than 2,000 kinds of ancient maps of China.
With the support of CALIS technology, Peking University Library has built "Excellent Books —— Ancient Books and Literature Resources Database of Peking University Digital Library", which is a network platform for comprehensively displaying the ancient books collected by Peking University Library. Led by Peking University Library, the "Ancient Books Painted by Academies —— University Ancient Books Literature Resource Database" has collected more than 600,000 ancient books metadata, more than 200,000 books and 83,500 electronic books from 24 university libraries in China, including Peking University Library, making it one of the largest ancient books bibliographic databases in the world. There are more than 80,000 kinds of large-scale photocopies of ancient books 100 in the ancient books reading room of Peking University Library. Many branches also have collections of ancient books. Among them, some bibliographic data of ancient books in the branches of Archaeological and Cultural Institute, Chinese Department and Information Management Department have been entered into the ancient books resource database, and the bibliographic data of other branches will also be entered into the resource database in the future.
3. Special literature collection
20 16 Peking University Library official website information shows that the Peking University Library's special collections include: local chronicles, old newspapers and periodicals in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, books in the Republic of China, books in western languages and orientalism, old books in Sino-German society, old books in Sino-French universities, books donated by Fang Zhitong, books donated later, European Union documents, microfilms and films of British and American government diplomatic archives, and precious western documents and degrees.
4. Thesis
According to the official website information of Peking University Library in June 20 16, the dissertation system of Peking University Library includes: Peking University's dissertation, yenching university's dissertation and Peking University's master's dissertation. These include:
Dissertations of Peking University: Collect all doctoral and master's dissertations and some excellent bachelor's dissertations that graduated from Peking University after 198 1. The reading place is the 309 Dissertation Reading Room in West District, which can be retrieved through OPAC or Peking University Dissertation Library.
Yenching university's dissertations: There are more than 2,600 bachelor's and master's dissertations in yenching university, among which there are many manuscripts of famous contemporary scholars, which are very precious. Yan Da's thesis covers a wide range, which is of great reference significance for studying the society, history and politics of modern China. The reading place is the special collection room of 3 18 in the west area. Specifically, it can be searched through yenching university Academic Degree Thesis Library.
Master's Dissertations of Peking University: 3 13 in the West Campus of Peking University Library, with13 in the * * collection: the names and topics of master's dissertations of Peking University, the forms of graduate dissertations, and the relationship between local government expenditure and population density in Chen Daisun and Massachusetts, USA. Copy of the original doctoral thesis, London Ambassadors' Meeting, chen hansheng,1913, copy of the original master's thesis of the University of Chicago, USA, positioning of American cotton manufacturing industry, Chen, Ph.D. thesis of Harvard University, USA, copy of crystalline schist of Lower Alanon Valley, Central Massachusetts, Dong Shenbao, Yenching university's original bachelor's thesis Feng Youlan's Comparative Study on Life Ideal; Dr. Hou Renzhi's Columbia University officially published a copy of Beiping's historical geography; Dr. Hu Shi's original doctoral thesis of Liverpool University in the United Kingdom published The Development of China's Ancient Logical Method; Dr. Columbia University in the United States officially published The Death of Li Xianzhi? Lteinbrüche in Ostasien, Ph.D., Humboldt University, Germany, officially published by Liu Ne pronon concation China de Po-Pei, Ph.D., University of Paris, France, officially published by Die Kolarlenfuna des mitted devonsausder and Le Senxun. Provinz Kwangsi, Ph.D., University of Marburg, South Germany, officially published Nai-tuan Chao Richard Jones: Early British Institutionalist, Ph.D., Columbia University, officially published 5. Old newspapers and periodicals of the Republic of China.
According to the official website information of Peking University Library in June, 20 16, there are more than 10,000 kinds of newspapers and periodicals in Peking University Library from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, and more than 600 kinds of old newspapers, many of which are rare and rare, which are cherished by collectors and researchers. This precious and special collection mainly comes from the old collections of the old Peking University and yenching university, and there are also a few old collections of the former Sino-French University and the Sino-German Society. Newspapers and periodicals from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China are of great reference value for understanding and studying the process of China's modernization and the evolution of ideological and academic, military politics, education and culture, language and literature, social customs and other aspects during this turbulent period. In order to ensure the smooth progress of various business work, the library has introduced and developed various application systems, such as digital library portal system, unified retrieval platform, unified authentication system, subject navigation system, electronic resource navigation system, virtual consulting system, network training system, sci-tech novelty retrieval system, interlibrary loan and document delivery system, digital resource processing system group, digital service system group, metadata description system and so on. , thus forming a relatively complete information service and information processing platform. In order to further discover, excavate and display the library's characteristic resources, the valuable digital collections such as dissertation submission, cataloguing and publishing system, ancient books cataloguing and publishing system (with various secrets), Peking University famous teacher database, Beijing historical geography database, and Republic of China newspaper database have been successively launched.
In 2000, Peking University Digital Library Research Institute, which was jointly established by the library and other units in the school, carried out research on digital library models, standards and norms (metadata, digital processing standards, etc.). ), key technologies, interoperability layer and interoperability standards, digital library portal, etc. , and achieved a series of results, and began to carry out large-scale application practice, which laid a technical foundation for the construction of Peking University Digital Library. At the same time of research and application experiments, some projects have been built, and services are gradually provided on the campus network based on the principle of "building while serving", such as electronic resource navigation system, dissertation submission and retrieval system, multimedia on demand system, ancient book rubbings demonstration database retrieval system, Peking University famous teacher files, teaching reference book system, online course service, etc. In 2006, the portal of Peking University Digital Library was completed, and various new technologies such as unified retrieval, unified authentication, resource scheduling and integration were integrated into the construction of digital library.