According to the setting and professional characteristics of the ten disciplines of agriculture, medicine, engineering, economics, management, literature, science, law, teaching and history owned by Shihezi University, under the principle of ensuring key points and taking care of the general, the books and periodicals ordered by the library basically meet the needs of teaching and scientific research in the whole school. The library of Shihezi University has more than 3 million books and periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages, more than 3,000 Chinese and foreign periodicals and 180 newspapers. More than 40 kinds of Chinese and foreign electronic books, periodical databases and other digital resources have been purchased successively, such as Wanfang, VIP, CNKI, Springer LINK, SDOS, etc., and Xinjiang Cotton Plant Protection Database and Shihezi University Dissertation Database have been established. Established data exchange relationship with domestic 1000 units; There are many precious documents in the museum, such as Sikuquanshu, Handed down Books and China ancient books.
The special collection department of Shihezi University Library was established in March, 20 1 1, which was formed by the merger of the original Bingtuan data library and the ancient books library, increasing the Central Asian literature and precious literature resources. According to the school's orientation of "based on the Corps, serving Xinjiang, facing the whole country and radiating Central Asia", the Ministry of Special Collection takes the historical mission of preserving and inheriting local documents as its responsibility and obligation while serving the school's scientific research. Since its establishment, the Special Collection Department has done a lot of basic work in the collection, arrangement, development, utilization and protection of Xinjiang Corps documents, Xinjiang frontier documents, Central Asian documents and ancient books, and has positioned the collection characteristics as "focusing on Corps documents and Central Asian documents, supplemented by ancient books and rare books".